February 28, 2021
Peter Lowery (1810-1888). Peter Lowery (1810-1888), married to a free Cherokee named Ruth Mitchell, (1) became a member of the Nashville Christian Church in 1835, (2) purchased his own freedom in 1839 and eventually freed his mother, three brothers, and two sisters, (3) worked at Franklin College and was mentored by Tolbert Fanning in the […]
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Church History | Tagged: African American, Daniel Wadkins, David Lipscomb, Education, Nashville, Peter Lowery, Samuel Lowery, Segregation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
July 4, 2014
This is the report in Nashville’s Republican Banner (April 9, 1857), page 3. Destructive Fire! CHURCH BURNED!–LOSS $25,000 The cry of fire was raised yesterday morning between 5 and 6 o’clock, by the discovery of flames issuing from a small Carpenter Shop in South Field, near the Depot of the Tenn. & Ala. R. R., […]
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Church History, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Christian Church, Churches of Christ, Nashville, Stone-Campbell Movement |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 20, 2014
The Nashville Tennessean, in an article entitled “ALL DELIGHTED,” described the proceedings of the General Christian Missionary Convention’s 1892 annual meeting (October 21, 1892, p. 8). This was a highwater mark in the tension within the Stone-Campbell Movement (or, American Restoration Movement). The missionary societies held their convention in the capital of its opposition. There […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Christian Church, Church of Christ, Churches of Christ, David Lipscomb, Disciples of Christ, Division, Indiana Tradition, James A. Harding, Missionary Society, Nashville, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 27, 2013
During the summer of 1858 Tolbert Fanning, President of Franklin College and a leader in Middle Tennessee for over twenty-five years, toured the congregations surrounding Nashville. He recounts this tour in the September 1858 edition of the Gospel Advocate (“Prospects in Middle Tennessee,” pp. 257-263). He visited Hartsville and Bledsoe’s Creek congregations in Sumner county; Lebanon […]
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Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Acts of Worship, Assembly, Churches of Christ, Liturgy, Lord's Day, Nashville, Sunday, Tennessee, Tolbert Fanning |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 19, 2013
1938-1939 were significant years for the Churches of Christ. In 1938 E. W. McMillan, one time chair of the Bible department at Abilene Christian College, began preaching for the Central Church of Christ in Nashville, TN and in January 1939 assumed the editorship of the Christian Leader which was now under new management (Clinton Davidson). The […]
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Theology | Tagged: Bible Banner, Christian Leader, E. W. McMillan, Foy E. Wallace Jr., J. D. Tant, N. B. Hardeman, Nashville, Rebaptism, Tennessee, Tennessee Tradition, Texas Tradition |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
October 27, 2009
Returning to some of my historical interests (which is probably not shared by many :-)), I have always been fascinated with Alexander Campbell’s take on the “spiritual system” as he called it, particularly demonology. Campbell presented a major addresson the topic of demonology to the Popular Lecture Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 10, 1841 […]
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Church History | Tagged: Alexander Campbell, David Lipscomb, Deism, Demonology, Jesse B. Ferguson, John Thomas, Materialism, Nashville, Nashville Whig, P. S. Fall, Spiritualism, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks