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In recognition of his 175th birthday yesterday, "the search for piety and obedience" remembers Jesse Engle, leader of the pioneer Brethren in Christ missionary band that established the Matopo Mission in present-day Zimbabwe....read more
On the 41st anniversary of the Apollo 11 walk on the moon, this post explores how the Brethren in Christ diverged from their American Evangelical contemporaries in expressing skepticism about NASA's achievement....read more
Today's Photo Friday installment celebrates the 38th birthday of Upland Manor, a Brethren in Christ retirement community in Southern California....read more
As General Conference 2010 convenes in Grantham, Pa., today's Photo Friday installment highlights everybody's favorite Conference event: Bible quizzing!...read more
In what ways can the Brethren in Christ “stand out” from American Evangelicalism? Perhaps the answer lies in the sixteenth-century writings of Dutch Anabaptist leader Menno Simons....read more
Today's Photo Friday topic: Sunday school at the Valley Chapel Brethren in Christ Church in East Canton, Ohio....read more
Today's Photo Friday installment sketches the origins of the Brethren in Christ Church's denominational radio broadcast, "Gems of Grace."...read more
Today's Photo Friday installment highlights two important themes in Brethren in Christ life and thought during early decades of the twentieth cenutry: nonconformity and evangelism. ...read more
Theologian Stanley Hauerwas offers some observations on the strengths and weaknesses of American Evangelicalism....read more
Despite its massive growth and academic maturation during its first one hundred years, Messiah College has remained the same in some important ways. We document a few of those here....read more
Today's Photo Friday installment showcases Brethren in Christ missionaries Henry Light Smith and Katie (Burkholder) Smith, and recalls a fond farewell bid upon their departure for India in 1913....read more
We wrap up (for now!) our series on "Women as Pastors" with a profile of Sarah H. Bert, who served at the denomination's Chicago Mission for more than fifty years....read more
Today's Photo Friday installment follows up on a previous post to tell yet another tale of two presidents: one of Messiah College, and the other of the United States....read more
Today's Photo Friday installment showcases a unique method of evangelism employed by the Sunday school students at one Brethren in Christ congregation in the 1950s....read more
"Prominent early churchwoman" Mary Jane Long considered herself quiet and shy. Yet she demonstrated a conviction about women in ministry that upset many of her fellow early 20th century Brethren in Christ....read more