ABILENE, Texas — In 1960, a professor named Carl Spain delivered an explosive Bible Lectureship sermon that reverberated far beyond what was known then as Abilene…
SEARCY, Ark. — ‘If I can help somebody, as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody, with a word or song. If I can show…
In the summer of tumultuous 1968, more than 40 prominent black and white ministers gathered to discuss ways to improve race relations in Churches of…
Find links below to all the stories in the "50 Years: Racial Reconciliation and the Church" series. Part 1: Detroit race riot • 'No more us…
ATLANTA, Ga. — A black man charged, “You want me to lift myself by my own bootstraps, but you are standing on my boots.” A…
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…
Marshall Keeble was calling sinners home at a 1939 gospel meeting in Ridgely, Tenn., when a young white man approached him after the sermon. The…
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…
