Photo Friday: An “Educational Ministry” in the Midwest
A brief overview of the history of Jabbok Bible School, the short-lived Brethren in Christ bible school in the Midwest. ...read more
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Photo Friday: An “Educational Ministry” in the Midwest
Shaping Life and Work: Paul S. Boyer and the Brethren in Christ Church
American historian Paul S. Boyer reflects on his childhood in the Brethren in Christ Church and how it influenced his future vocation as a historian....read more
Ernest Boyer on Peace and Education
Ernest L. Boyer, Sr. -- a son of the Brethren in Christ Church and an alumnus of Messiah College -- shares his thoughts on the intersections of education and peace. ...read more
Photo Friday: A “School of Brotherly Love”
Today's Photo Friday installment highlights one journalist's description of Ontario Bible School -- and the plain-clothed Brethren in Christ young people who study there. ...read more
Photo Friday: The First Campus
Today's Photo Friday installment showcases the Samuel Rogers Smith home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- the first campus of present-day Messiah College. ...read more
Photo Friday: A Little Lighthouse in the Bronx
Today's Photo Friday installment showcases two late twentieth century developments in the Brethren in Christ Church: a burgeoning interest in urban ministry, and an increased interest in social welfare ministries. ...read more
Photo Friday: Remembering Jabbok
Today's Photo Friday installment highlights the Jabbok Faith Orphanage and Missionary Training Home (later Jabbok Bible School), an institution run by the Brethren in Christ during the first half of the twentieth century....read more
Photo Friday: In the Classroom with Professor Ira Miller
Today's Photo Friday installment captures a scene from the 1947-1948 academic year at Messiah Academy....read more
Education, Exasperation, and the Early Days of Messiah Bible School
How did early twentieth century Brethren in Christ church leaders defend the value of higher education to a fellowship of religiously conservative farmers?...read more
Coercion, Dancing Dutch Children, and Brethren in Christ Nonconformity
Not sure what these three things have in common? They were all part of an usual event held on the campus of Messiah Bible College in 1942....read more
Photo Friday: Foolin’ Around with Old Zeke
Today’s Photo Friday installment showcases a popular resident of Messiah Bible School and Missionary Training Home: Old Zeke, a skeleton donated to the fledgling school by a Brethren in Christ minister....read more
Photo Friday: Calling the Children Home
Today's Photo Friday installment focuses on the Mt. Carmel Faith Orphanage in Whiteside County, Illinois, one of the benevolent institutions established by the Brethren in Christ in the early years of the twentieth century....read more
“The Devil in Cap and Gown,” or Another Connection Between Fundamentalism and the Brethren in Christ
As a student at Princeton University in the 1920s, Roy H. Wenger received a pamphlet from Mary Zook warning him of the dangers of "higher criticism" of the BIble. The act shows that some Brethren in Christ were concerned about the advance of liberalism in the Church....read more
Photo Friday: Here, Faith and Learning Meet
In today's Photo Friday installment, we take a look at one of the earliest photographs of Niagara Christian Collegiate, the Brethren in Christ's high school in Ontario....read more
“I am About To Go Abroad as a Missionary”: H. Frances Davidson’s Passport Application and What It Tells Us About Brethren in Christ Life
We review pioneer Brethren in Christ missionary H. Frances Davidson's passport application and attempt to understand what it teaches us about the woman and her church....read more