August 18, 2022
Today is its 102nd anniversary. In 1919, Congress passed the nineteenth amendment. Tennessee ratified the amendment on August 18, 1920 by two votes. That vote made it constitutional law. Harry Burn was a 24-year old representative up for re-election that Fall. He wore a red rose into the chamber which symbolized his “No” vote. His […]
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Church History, Theology | Tagged: Church, Churches of Christ, Complementarianism, Gender, Society, Stone-Campbell, Suffrage, Traditional Gender, Women |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 28, 2021
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Hermeneutics, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Bible, CENI, Christology, Churches of Christ, Hermeneutics, Jesus, Restoration Movement, Scripture, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 21, 2020
Below I summarize the point of Searching for the Pattern: My Journey in Interpreting the Bible. Growing up in Churches of Christ, I embraced and practiced a hermeneutic that sought an implicit blueprint for the work and worship of the church in Acts and the Epistles. Through a filter of generic/specific distinctions, coordinate associations, the […]
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Books, Hermeneutics, Theodrama, Theology | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Hermeneutics, Patternism, Theological hermeneutics |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 22, 2014
[Michael Shank, Muscle and a Shovel: A raw, gritty, true story about finding the Truth in a world drowning in religious confusion (5th edition, 2013; Kindle version). I have cited the book with chapter number first, then the Kindle location. For example, Chapter 1, location 245 is cited as 1:245.] [My first and second blogs […]
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Books, Hermeneutics, Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Church, Churches of Christ, Eccelesiology, Hermeneutics, Michael Shanks, Muscle and a Shovel |
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