Another Word on Weddings in the Mid-Century Brethren in Christ Church
What can the comparison of three photos from the mid-twentieth century tell us about the form of Brethren in Christ wedding ceremonies?...read more
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Another Word on Weddings in the Mid-Century Brethren in Christ Church
Photo Friday: At Home with Mary Zook
Today's Photo Friday takes readers inside the home of John and Mary Zook, vocal proponents of Holiness theology within the nineteenth-century Brethren in Christ Church....read more
Photo Friday: Sunshades in the Summer
Today's Photo Friday installment shows a light-hearted moment among missionary kids in 1920s Zimbabwe....read more
The Brethren in Christ in the City of Brotherly Love (and Sisterly Affection)
In honor of my recent move to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, here's a photo post showing scenes from the Brethren in Christ Church's long-standing Philadelphia Mission....read more
Photo Friday: Clothing and Conversion at the Life Line Gospel Mission
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
Photo Friday: “On the Battlefield for Souls” at the Virginia Mission
Today's Photo Friday installment traces the early years of the Bethel Mission in Virginia -- a place described by one mission worker as a "battlefield for souls."...read more
Photo Friday: Going to the Chapel…
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