John Mark Hicks

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.

In 2022, I was invited to speak at the Teacher’s Conference for the International Churches of Christ. It was joy to attend, and I shared some wonderful times with brothers and sisters from among those congregations. The essay that arose from that opportunity is entitled “Searching for the Pattern.” I am making it available here. […]

A PDF version is available here. Over a year ago Truth Magazine published an issue that reviewed several of my books, including Searching for the Pattern. In this blog I respond to some prominent concerns in these articles. Some of these are expressed in almost every article by different writers. I thank the reviewers for […]

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In the Fall of 1978, I was attending Westminster Theological Seminary (seeking a sixty-six hour degree in theology) and preaching for the Northeast Philadelphia Church of Christ. I was twenty-one years old. The church asked me to give a series of radio lessons on a station that covered the Philadelphia market. They hoped it would […]

The following videos are five lecture/sermon presentations and one Q&A from the Ray Evans Seminar held at the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Oklahoma, on April 12-14, 2024. The presentations are based on the book Searching for the Pattern, published in 2019.

Wes McAdams leads the ministry at Radically Christian. He interviewed John Mark Hicks about hermeneutics, reading the Bible, and the prospects of unity within the Restoration Movement. You can find the interview here.

How, then, might we read the Bible in a healthier way? This a brief introduction to reading the Bible through the lens of the story of God in Christ by Spirit. Some practical suggestions at the end.

Churches of Christ are, gratefully, a people who love the Bible, and I grew up in an era when the church knew the Bible so well. At the same time, we read the Bible in a particular way that is perhaps not as faithful to the Bible as we might have hoped. In this interview, […]