John Mark Hicks

A version was first published in The Journal Christian Studies 4, no. 2 (May 2025), 29-42. A PDF file is available here. I am grateful to Keith Stanglin for inviting me to participate in this issue of the Journal of Christian Studies. The five questions generated some angst as well as fruitful discussions among colleagues […]

Stone-Campbell Study Group Stone-Campbell Journal Conference 2025 John Mark Hicks A PDF File is available 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] […]

Delivered at the Restoration Collective in Dallas, TX, on April 21, 2026. “But a devotional and sanctifying reading of that sacred Book, is essentially different from the readings of the theologian, the moralist, the sectary, and the virtuoso of every caste and school. The man of God reads the Book of God to commune with […]

An English version of “Women, Assemblies, and the Churches of Christ” is available here. A Spanish PDF is available here. Porque todos podéis profetizar uno por uno, para que todos aprendan y todos sean exhortados. 1 Corintios 14:31 [Este ensayo ofrece una sucinta defensa de la plena participación de las mujeres en las asambleas que […]

PDF Version available here. I graduated from Freed-Hardeman University in 1977, and I remember well the discussions of “Crossroads” and the beginnings of a discipling ministry that grew into the Boston Movement and then the International Churches of Christ. I began full time teaching in higher education among Churches of Christ in 1982 and am […]

Below is a Spanish version of the English journal article “Searching for the Pattern” that was first published in Tέλειός/Teleios: A Journal to Promote Holistic Christian Spirituality 3, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 73-90. Translated by Wilson Silva Garcia.

PDF file of blog here. What is the historic traditional interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:11-14? The complementarian and egalitarian interpretations are both of recent vintage and responses to cultural shifts. In her book An Historian Looks at 1 Timothy 2:11-14: The Authentic Traditional Interpretation and Why It Disappeared (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012), Joan […]

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 […]

Essay on Alexander Campbell’s Rejection of Creeds on the 1700th Anniversary of the Nicene Creed Theology Study Group: Stone-Campbell Journal Conference 2025 In a 2024 essay in the Restoration Quarterly, Brad East lamented the loss of catholicity, particularly soteriological ecclesiology and effectual sacramentality, among Churches of Christ within the past fifty years. One recourse, Brad […]

Topic: The Struggle for the Soul of Churches of Christ (1889-1929) Participants: Steven Wolfgang, John Mark Hicks, Edward J. Robinson, Shelley Jacobs, Bobby Valentine, Chris Cotten, and C. Leonard Allen. Time: April 8 (Tuesday) from 8:30am to 4pm. Place: Hillsboro Church of Christ, Nashville, TN 37204 For more information and registration, click here.