The Apocrypha: What is It? (A Video Presentation)
To fulfill some requests, I am placing this video here to make the content available to those who desire. During Coronacation, I took care of speaking engagements via Zoom rather than travel. What...
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Five “Unknowns” of the Stone-Campbell Movement
First. Some of our “apostates” have had significant impact in other religious movements. A sizable portion of the Stone Movement became part of the Shakers. And Sydney Rigdon, a preacher in the...
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Seven Uses of Wine in the Bible
“wine to cheer us up” (Ps 104.15, CEB) Quotable Quote from J. J. M. Roberts “It was only years later that I learned that grape juice for communion was a liberal innovation associated with the...
View ArticleRubel Shelly & Mike Cope on Wineskins
Wineskins. I cannot even write the title of that magazine without a smile crossing my face. I received our first copy, Volume One, Number One way back in May of 1992. I devoured each issue cover to...
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K. C. Moser’s Journey to the Cross
K. C. Moser sitting on the steps of a schoolhouse in 1911 reading a book. Today I want to share ten items about one of my heroes of the faith, Kenny Carl Moser (1893-1976). My own saga with Moser...
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A Doctrinal Christmas? Two Theological Gifts of the Nativity
“Christmas” offers important doctrinal gifts to believers in the Messiah An earlier version of this article was published in Wineskins (December 7, 2017) and can be accessed here. I grew up in a...
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The Battle is Over: Odes of Solomon 22,
Charlesworth is one of the leading scholars on the Odes. His very readable translation is a joy. I discovered the Odes of Solomon twenty + years ago and have loved them since. Written in Syriac or...
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Instruments, Worship, Unity, Ephesians 5.19: Reviewing Arguments Against...
I broke two strings An Explanation. Earlier this year a dear brother contacted me and asked me if I would read a “position paper” on instrumental music and offer him an “honest critique and feed...
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The Bookroom: Remembrance and Forgiveness, A Memoir (A Review)
The Bookroom: Remembrance and Forgiveness, A Memoir (ACU Press 2024)When I learned that Leonard Allen had published a memoir I was eager to dive in. I have been reading Allen’s writings since the late...
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AMMONIUS: THE BLIND “READER”: The Bible in the Early Church
This is p10, a papyrus dating to AD 316. The text is Romans 1.1-5 (from the net) The Bible as we know it is a fairly modern invention (since basically the Reformation period). Neither Jews nor...
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