Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

B.H. wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:51 pm You in the NICoC were a bunch of pinko liberals. If you were the real (tm) Church of Christ you would never have divided your assembly into Bible classes to begin with.

If the church where I was raised was “liberal,” I don’t know what a “conservative” church could be.

I remember at least one preacher in the church I attended as a child used to tell stories about people dying in hospitals wanting to be baptized. Often they had a bathtub big enough for this and sometimes even had to hold their hands over the tracheostomy tube/tracheostomy to perform the immersion....

In every NICOC I attended, women were allowed to comment in Bible class. This was true in both teen and adult classes.

Ivy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:13 pm I was glad to have grown up reading the KJ version. It helped me rack up some vocabulary points on standardized tests back in the day.

Just this week, I used “beget” to win at a couple of wordle-type games

I don’t cuss, since I was COC too long to develop the habit. But I recognize several Spanish cuss words just because so many people in my area speak Spanish.

Welcome! I can’t imagine how difficult it was to keep preaching when you were mentally through with the COC. As a woman, I never had my career attached to my COC religion. I was fortunate that my husband and I got ready to leave around the same time.
Wishing you happiness in you new freedom.

The Cane Ridge Reader edited by Hoke S. Dickinson. This is a compilation of works mostly by Barton W. Stone. It was a revolutionary book in my development. Being a first hand source, one is exposed to the fact that Elder Stone was very far from the positions which came to define 20th century CoC do...

I finally purchased “Reviving the Ancient Faith” and I am slowly working my way through it. One new thing I learned was that Campbell changed many of his views over his lifetime. That makes it easy for present-day COCers to pick and choose which of his statements to quote, if they acknowledge him at...

I remember you! I think you knew my nephew at ACU.

I knew a W.L. Wharton in Texas. Was it him?