Photo Friday: “The Little White Church at the Crossroads”
Learn more about the Carland-Zion Brethren in Christ Church in Michigan, poetically described as "the little white church at the crossroads."...read more
Category: Photo Friday
Photo Friday: The Architecture of a Controversy
One historic Brethren in Christ meetinghouse offers a living reminder of a tense period of conflict and controversy in the church....read more
Photo Friday: Caring for refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War
How Brethren in Christ churches helped to resettle refugees from the Vietnam War in the 1970s and 1980s...read more
Photo Friday: Sikalongo Mission 100th Anniversary
Last month, the Brethren in Christ Church in Zambia held its General Conference at Sikalongo Mission. The highlight of the conference was the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Sikalongo Mission. Below is a brief account of the celebration reprinted by permission from John and Esther Spurrier’s...read more
Photo Friday: Tell Us About This Photo!
Thanks to John and Mary Ebersole for the photograph and the information about it. John grew up in Palmyra, Pennsylvania; he and Mary now live in Akron, PA, and attend the Speedwell Heights Brethren in Christ Church This photo came into the possession of John and Mary Ebersole as a...read more
Photo Friday
by Harriet Sider Bicksler This postcard is another item I recently found in the suitcase of old photos from my parents. It is addressed to my great-grandfather, John Sider, and dated November 1, 1910. There is nothing identifying the person on the horse, but I suppose it could be my...read more
Photo Friday: Can Anyone ID This Photo?
by Harriet Sider Bicksler Recently, I’ve been going through old photos from my parents, Lewis and Gladys (Bohen) Sider, and I found this one. The only identification on it is a stamp on the back: Bowser Studio, 109 West C St., Ontario, Calif. There is no date, no specific location,...read more
Photo Friday: Planting a Church in the Suburbs
Today's Photo Friday depicts an understudied -- yet vitally important -- aspect of Brethren in Christ religious life in the 1960s and 1970s: the Church Growth movement. ...read more
Photo Friday: Anabaptist Megachurch Worship?
Today's Photo Friday post offers a snapshot of an uncommon sight: megachurch-style worship at a gathering of Anabaptist-minded Christians from many denominations! ...read more
Photo Friday: A Teacher and a Scholar
Today's Photo Friday offers another preview of my forthcoming biography of Brethren in Christ theologian and church historian Luke L. Keefer Jr. ...read more
Photo Friday: The Brethren in Christ in the Pacific Northwest
Today's Photo Friday highlights the origins of the first Brethren in Christ congregation in the Pacific Northwest. ...read more
Photo Friday: Building Messiah Village
Today's Photo Friday post showcases two building projects undertaken to house present-day Messiah Village -- one in Harrisburg, and the other in Mechanicsburg. ...read more
Photo Friday: A General Conference in the Birthplace of the Brethren in Christ
On the eve of the 2014 General Conference of the Brethren in Christ (U.S.) gathering in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today's Photo Friday showcases an image of the last General Conference held in Lancaster County. ...read more
Photo Friday: The Beginnings of the Chino Church
Today's Photo Friday installment considers some early images of the Chino Brethren in Christ Church, a 100-year-old congregation in Southern California's Inland Empire region. ...read more
Photo Friday: Flannelgraph on the Mission Field
Children's ministry visual aids -- like flannelgraph -- entered into the the Brethren in Christ historical memory through one woman: long-time missionary Pearl (Brehm) Wolgemuth, whose innovative-for-its-time efforts are the subject of today's Photo Friday post. ...read more
