Is progressive Christianity dangerous?
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — “We don’t want to be known for the things we’re against,” said David Young. “We want to be known for what we’re for.”…
Dialogue
A Bible for every tribe, every tongue
For Rett Parker, Mum’s the word. It’s many words, actually — an entire language of them, spoken by villagers in the Madang province of Papua…
Keeping Christian education on mission
David R. Shannon remembers the day when E. Claude Gardner walked into the sawmill near Centerville, Tenn., where Shannon was working and asked him to…
‘Incarceration has saved their lives’
‘Iwould never have listened to you out there.” Norman Dean hears comments like that as he shares his faith behind bars. The Oklahoma native and…
A chronicler’s daughter shares memories
Printer’s ink flowed through the veins of Lavella Hicks McMillan at an early age. She was 2 when her preacher father, Olan Hicks, published the…
‘God doesn’t promise us life will be easy’
In recent weeks, about 3.6 million American students graduated from high school, the National Center for Education Statistics reports. In a few months, an estimated…
Churches need grace, tact, sensibility
Erma Williams was one of 645 respondents to The Christian Chronicle’s survey, “A closer look at Churches of Christ in the U.S.” We found her…
Historically black and crucial to our future
He was only 3 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and Marshall Keeble, pioneering African-American minister for Churches of Christ, died after…
‘If Christians don’t believe in a literal Genesis, they have no foundation for their doctrine’
EDMOND, Okla. — Ken Ham, a nationally known creationist who rejects Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, made headlines recently when he was invited, then disinvited…
More on #ChurchToo — Our expanded Q&A with Jimmy Hinton on sexual abuse in churches
For Jimmy Hinton, there was no question: He had to do the right thing, even though it meant turning in his own father. In 2011,…
