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In keeping with the theme of anniversary celebrations begun with yesterday's post about H. Frances Davidson, today's Photo Friday installment recognizes the 75th anniversary celebration for Roxbury Holiness Camp....read more
It's the 150th birthday of pioneer missionary H. Frances Davidson, so let's party!...read more
Explore Upland College's past (and present) with this series of contemporary and historical photos....read more
For most Brethren in Christ churches in the early and mid-twentieth century, "elaborate weddings" -- including ceremonies that incorporated rings, instrumental music, or even something as commonplace as large flower bouquets -- were dismissed as vain and "worldly." Today's Photo Friday installment shows us that, as the Brethren in Christ...read more
Following up on last week’s photo of two Brethren in Christ leaders with a familiar evangelist, this week’s Photo Friday installment shows Arthur Climenhaga — former bishop of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) and fifth president of Messiah College — shaking hands with Ronald Reagan...read more
A recent essay about the Port Colborne Brethren in Christ Church provides insight into the outreach potential of early twentieth century Brethren in Christ Sunday schools....read more
Today's Photo Friday installment links a Brethren in Christ leader, a televangelist, and a crusade... but not the kind you're thinking of....read more
Stories from Messiah College's "multicultural century" reveal some surprising connections to the institution's founding denomination....read more
In this week's installment of the new regular column Photo Friday, we examine an early Brethren in Christ tent meeting, and its significance to the denomination's late 19th century westward expansion....read more
Is there a difference between the Anabaptist and Wesleyan holiness conceptions of "the world"?...read more
The Brethren in Christ may have seen eye-to-eye with Christian fundamentalists as far as eschatology is concerned. But an emphasis on ethics (rather than doctrine) was one factor that kept the Brethren from fully embracing the fundamentalist position....read more
‘Tis the season for cataclysmic cold and fitful economic rebounds, so it seems only right to offer a post about winter weather and a paltry job market. That such a post should be tied to fundamentalist eschatology and its impact upon turn-of-the-century Brethren in Christ thinking, is merely coincidental. For...read more
The Brethren in Christ were (and are) not fundamentalists. This— thankfully—has been the long-held contention of many Brethren in Christ historians. While debates about “the fundamentals of the faith” raged on in schools and churches across the United States in the early years of the twentieth century, the Brethren (who...read more