
Editorial: What Black giants of our faith can teach us
As Black History Month concludes, we take a moment and pay homage to the most recent crop of evangelists who have made their transition from…
As Black History Month concludes, we take a moment and pay homage to the most recent crop of evangelists who have made their transition from…
Franklin Florence moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1959 to serve as full-time minister for the Reynolds Street Church of Christ. More than 60 years later…
Richard A. Rose Sr., one of the “boy preachers” who studied under Marshall Keeble at the Nashville Christian Institute in Tennessee, died Dec. 25, 2022.…
Across the Nation is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ across the U.S. Got an idea for this…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The two men were boys when they met. One, a preacher, would minister to churches for seven decades. The other, a preacher…
Oh, what it would have been like to hear the voice of Marshall Keeble. The famous traveling evangelist died in 1968, so most Christians alive…
He was 83, and I was 20. Meeting him was the opportunity of a lifetime — one that I would not fully understand for many…
LOS ANGELES — In 1963, an 11-year-old named Dewayne Winrow gave a sermon during Southwestern Christian College’s annual Bible lectures in Terrell, Texas. The boy’s…
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…
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…