BOOK REVIEW: Matthew Bates, Beyond the Salvation Wars

May 11, 2025

PDF version of the Review available here. Beyond the Salvation Wars: Why Both Protestants and Catholics Must Reimagine How We Are Saved, authored by Matthew W. Bates, is a provocative contribution to the “salvation wars.” It not only explores common ground among disputants but also invites them to embrace a holistic perspective “beyond the salvation […]


What Are Our Roots? Origins of Churches of Christ within the Christian Tradition

April 12, 2025

Stone-Campbell Study Group: Stone-Campbell Journal Conference 2025 Also available in PDF here. In what I regard as a seminal article written almost forty years ago, Richard L. Harrison, Jr., raised the question “Who, indeed, are the Disciples?” as the new denomination sought to define itself in relation to other Christian traditions.[1] Though he focused on […]