Musings on “The Journalism of Hate”

Visits: 19[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] The Gospel Journal (TGJ, henceforth) was not begun primarily to engage in direct confrontation with either periodicals or persons. However, it certainly does not contradict our published editorial aims to be…

Denominatioalism or the Church?

Visits: 27            Thoughtful Bible students realize that denominational “churchianity” bears no resemblance to New Testament Christianity. It is not only fundamentally undenominational; it is anti-denominational. Men have so long lived with the abnormality of denominationalism that they almost universally accept…

Those Who Were Lost on Pentecost

Visits: 28[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] Introduction No one can determine the exact number of people who were in Jerusalem for the Pentecost feast of Acts 2, but the crowds must have greatly taxed the city’s capacity….

Emotionalism vs. Proper Emotions

Visits: 11[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction1 Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defines “emotionalism” as “…unwarranted expression or display of emotion.”2 The same dictionary defines “emotion” in the following words: Any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear,…

Higher “Christian” Education—What Should You Expect Your Child To Be Taught?

Visits: 5[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction In his helpful, but obsolete book on the history of “Christian Colleges” (1836–1949), the late M. Norvel Young astutely observed: Two fundamental dangers recognized by students of the Christian college movement…

How We Got Where We Are—A Half Century of Church History

Visits: 13[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The Lord’s church today is not the same body it was fifty years ago. My grandfather (an elder for forty years in central Texas) or even my father (whose more than…

A Plea for the Plea

Visits: 49[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles  page.] There is no more exciting and thrilling ideal to those who hunger and thirst for ultimate Truth than that of being a part of the church of the Bible. The incomparable…