Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Welcome to the board from a fellow NorthAL expat/refugee. It's difficult to completely escape the influence of the CoC in northern Alabama--and the NICoC in particular around the Huntsville metro (especially Athens and Limestone County)--but time and cultural separation go a long way toward recovery...

For those of you who have left coc, do you still have lingering doubts of "what if they are right"? If so, how do you deal with it... I occasionally get a brief sense of doubt like you described after being separated from CoC culture for about six years now. These feelings become less fre...

I grew up in a NI family from the heart of the hornets' nest in north Alabama. It's definitely not a place you want to be if you were raised in the CoC and then left, especially when your family is still active and connected to everyone else in the area. Lots of angry, vengeful, arrogant, overdresse...

I had already broken away from the CoC a few years before I married, and my wife grew up in a family split between Nazarene and Baptist affilitations. We're both active members of a non-denominational church now, and my family has been supportive after some initial reluctance before they got to know...

Clearrunway wrote:also, has anyone here been to Florida College?

I've got two immediate family members who attended Florida College. Visited there myself during my senior year in high school and immediately decided not to go there. Scary place.

I read Reviving the Ancient Faith , by Richard Hughes, and found it very enlightening about the historical roots of the current COC culture. The chapter called "The Fighting Spirit" made a lot of sense of the modern and recent COC attitude of "I'm right and if you think you're right ...