From Vietnam to Kenya, two boys’ lives touched by God
MALIBU, Calif. — A little boy from Vietnam. A little boy from Kenya. This is the story of how one of those boys — all…
Opinion
A moment of doubt on the road to Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We don’t often think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a man who ever wavered in his resolve to crusade for civil rights.…
Baptism, betrayal and a lifelong quest for truth
Joy and sadness, love and hate, peace and turmoil, relief and anxiety, excitement and depression. All of these were emotions I experienced late one Wednesday…
A bedside prayer with brother Keeble
He was 83, and I was 20. Meeting him was the opportunity of a lifetime — one that I would not fully understand for many…
Editorial: A quiet, unreported revolution of faith
On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, in a land half a world removed from Memphis, Tenn., a chemical attack in Syria…
19-year-old cancer victim’s faith inspires parents to keep serving
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nick Brumfield would have loved the Southpoint Church of Christ on Red Bridge Road’s first Sunday at its new location. His…
‘Of Christ’
TULSA, Okla. — You gotta have a nice sign. You just gotta. So we’ll set it in stone, pick out the perfect font. We’ll put a…
‘Sister Keeble’ stayed strong in mind, faith
I never got to meet Marshall Keeble or hear him preach. I was a baby when Keeble, the famous traveling evangelist who started hundreds of Churches…
Marshall Keeble fought racism by melting hearts
While Marshall Keeble didn’t preach about racial reconciliation, his very life was racial reconciliation. In the early 1900s, African-Americans were losing their lives at the hands…
‘Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the Gospel’
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in my hometown. He was 39.…
