My favorite veteran
CEDAR GROVE, TENN. — The name and the dates on the tombstone jumped out at me immediately. Danial Ross. Born: 1791. Died: 1842. My grandfather, father,…
World War II
As Christians in the Baltics watch Russia’s war in Ukraine, they ponder: Are we next?
OGRE, LATVIA — The Russian border is less than 200 miles from this small town in northern Europe. It feels much closer on this gray,…
‘God Bless Latvia’
RIGA, LATVIA — With tears in their eyes, Latvians sang their national anthem, “God Bless Latvia,” on June 16, 1940 — the last day of…
‘The home gave me my faith’
WICHITA, KAN. — At just 5 years old, Shirley Baldridge Porch understood hardship. She spent the first years of her life playing on a dirt floor. …
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…
‘A hundred years goes faster than you think’
CEDAR GROVE, Tenn. — My dad, Bob Ross, bent down and brushed leaves off the flat grave marker so he could read the inscription. “Lloyd…
Oldest WWII vet — and member of a Church of Christ — dies at 112
He was almost a teenager — again. Richard Overton, America's oldest World War II veteran — also believed to be the oldest living man in…
Beautiful, shrapnel-stopping words of life
LEBANON, Tenn.— A century-old, khaki-covered paperback New Testament with a hole torn through its pages makes a mighty case for the power of prayer and divine…
Richard Earl Walker, pioneering missionary to Europe, dies at 95
Richard Earl Walker, a pioneering missionary to Europe for Churches of Christ, died Aug. 25 at age 95. A Greek scholar, he graduated from Abilene…
In the midst of war, great optimism
Thumbing through the first issue of The Christian Chronicle, dated June 2, 1943, it’s hard to tell that America was fighting a massive war in…
