‘The whole thing is overwhelming’
SAND SPRINGS, Okla. — The rains came down, and Christians are stepping up. In this flood-ravaged Tulsa suburb, members of Churches of Christ are cleaning…
Oklahoma
At 87, ‘disaster deacon’ opens his heart — and church — to flooding victims
TULSA, Okla. — Oh, Kenneth Hearrell has stories to tell. About how he rode a horse five miles to his two-room schoolhouse from first through…
A ‘big’ step for one of America’s largest Churches of Christ
TULSA, Okla. — In “Hoosiers,” one of Mitch Wilburn’s all-time favorite movies, a small-town high school basketball team beats all odds to advance to the…
Running away from religion
MONTREAL — Montreal’s heart has grown cold to the Gospel. The largest French-speaking city in North America can be a lonely place to be a…
‘The Missionary who Stayed Home’
With unbridled enthusiasm, Olan Hicks launched into the first front-page news story in The Christian Chronicle, a brand-new publication for Churches of Christ dated June…
GOP presidential politics, professional wrestling style
OKLAHOMA CITY — In our younger years, my brother, Scott, and I loved watching professional wrestling. When our dad preached for a small Church of…
