Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

zeek wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:58 pm I knew a man who swore he was expelled from Freed in the early 1950s for holding hands with his future wife.

Hopefully he then enrolled in a better, state university where adult students were treated like adults. Did he say?

Sounds cultish. No wonder there is so much sexual obsession in churches that practice this kind of control.

Oh my goodness Moogie!! Why did I think it was MLK?? An example of memories changing years after the fact. Thank you for refreshing my recall about the window. Yes, that was the one. I wish you could’ve gotten that and the church bell. What a conversation piece that would have been…Where was it exac...

Agri, I like your comment about delay of baptism until at least 21. I could also make a case for waiting until the person's frontal lobe / prefrontal cortex are fully matured, which could be into the mid to late 20s. But that would fly in the face of cofc doctrine about baptism NOW, once that "...

One cofc I attended for almost a decade, an old wooden building, had a stained glass window of MLK, Jr. A friend there told me about it, but I never actually saw it. I think it had been covered / boarded up, because cofc. I hope that whoever bought the place after our group left was able to save th...

One cofc I attended for almost a decade, an old wooden building, had a stained glass window of MLK, Jr. A friend there told me about it, but I never actually saw it. I think it had been covered / boarded up, because cofc. I hope that whoever bought the place after our group left was able to save the...

Farrell Till, the author of The Skeptical Review was a Church of Christ preacher. He said preaching and theology classes were not very difficult at all. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that were true. They certainly don't seem to come out equipped to effectively "pastor" a congregation.

B.H. wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:53 pm you can be kin to zeek but you have to lurv me more than him though.

zeek wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:33 pm

Ivy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:42 am Zeek, we might be related. My ancestors hailed from right around where you are.

Ivy, based on what I know of you from this site, I'd be proud to know we were kin.

Thank you zeek!! I would be honored.

Zeek, we might be related. My ancestors hailed from right around where you are.