Brethren in Christ on the World Wide Web
A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks....read more
Tag: Fundamentalism
Photo Friday: “Six Hours of Sitting Seemed Like a Lot to Young People”
Recollections of the annual Bible conferences sponsored by the Southern California band of the Brethren in Christ Church during the first half of the twentieth century, courtesy of memoirist Eldon F. Bert. ...read more
Photo Friday: Touching Hearts on Shores Worldwide
Today's Photo Friday observes the 45th anniversary of The Gospel Tide Radio Hour, an innovative, high-tech evangelistic endeavor launched by the then-plain Brethren in Christ in the 1940s. ...read more
The Brethren in Christ and The Late Great Planet Earth
What impact did Hal Lindsey's 1970 bestseller "The Late Great Planet Earth" have on the Brethren in Christ?...read more
Quote of the Day
A quote to brighten your morning, courtesy of twentieth-century Brethren in Christ church leader C.N. Hostetter, Jr....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
“Such Dead Theology,” or How an Emphasis on Ethics Saved the Brethren in Christ from Fundamentalism
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
“Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful”: Proclaiming the Dispensation in a Chilly Climate
‘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
“On Bible Lines”: Where the Brethren in Christ Meet the Fundamentalists
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