10 favorite baseball stories featuring members of Churches of Christ
I love baseball. I may have mentioned that once or twice — or a million times. In my 15 years with The Christian Chronicle, I've enjoyed…
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Virtual visit: Kent County Church of Christ, Rhode Island
My family and I are spending our quarantine worshiping with our home congregation, the Memorial Road Church of Christ, from home via livestream. When I…
Retired MLB slugger and his wife are on a mission for God
FLORENCE, Ala. — Josh Willingham stayed up most of the night praying. After going to the World Series with the Kansas City Royals in 2014,…
Uncle Sam pays some church salaries
For three decades, Ray Holmes worshiped with the Pitman Road Church of Christ in Sewell, N.J. An accountant for nonprofit organizations his entire career, Holmes…
‘It’s the end of an era in youth ministry in Churches of Christ’
Church members gathered outside a Colorado hospital to pray, while inside Carol Myers watched through a glass window as her husband, Mike, was taken off…
For lessons on closed churches, look at 1918 flu pandemic
I thought I knew a little about my family’s history. I’ve written about my grandfather Lloyd Lee Ross, whose World War II service earned him…
Serving amid COVID-19, husband and wife try to balance safety and compassion
Hours after Easter Sunday tornadoes walloped the twin cities of Monroe and West Monroe in northeastern Louisiana, Ryan Lee came home from working with a…
COVID-19 challenges Christian relief ministries’ response to spring tornadoes
After an EF3 tornado slammed into Jonesboro, Ark., on March 28, the Nettleton Church of Christ could have used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse…
When graduation comes with no Pomp and Circumstance
OKLAHOMA CITY — When my son Keaton was about 4, a police car pulled up beside our minivan at a stoplight. At that exact moment,…
Should Uncle Sam pay minister salaries for Churches of Christ?
Business lawyer Michael E. Flowers serves as a deacon of the Church of Christ at Genessee Avenue in Columbus, Ohio. In an interview with The…
