‘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. …
World War II
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…
After 76 years, remains of Church of Christ member killed at Pearl Harbor identified
For 76 years, the family of U.S. Navy sailor Henry Glenn Tipton — a Church of Christ member from Arkansas — prayed for answers. Tipton,…
