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PowerPoint Presentation by Hal Doster, May 3, 2011 Harold (Hal) C. Doster
is a graduate of Bethany College (WV), AB, D.Hum.(Hon.); Yale
Divinity School, BD; and University of Michigan, MA, Ph.D. It was at Bethany
that he first became interested in the Brush Run Church. In 1949 Hal’s
grandmother, Lottie Mae Smith, took him to see the restored church structure on
the Campbell Homestead. Following the Disciples 1909 Centennial Convention in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lottie Mae and her husband, Brother C.C. Smith,
participated in a project to restore the church. As a college freshman Hal
helped dismantle the collapsing replica and place in storage the structural post
& beam framework. In 1960 Hal was appointed to the administration and faculty of
Bethany College following five years of rural pastoral unity ministry among six
congregations along the Ohio River, three of which were founded during Brush Run
Church years.
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The Brush Run Church A Small Beginning (30 Members) Grows into a Worldwide
Movement of Millions Calvin Warpula Calvin Warpula, a frequent writer for One Body and participant in the Restoration Forums, began preaching among churches of Christ when he was 15. He holds degrees from Freed-Hardeman University, Abilene Christian University, and Fuller Theological Seminary. Since 2007 he has served as Preaching Minister of the West University Church of Christ in Houston, Texas. |
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Unity and Brush Run: The
Declaration and Address Douglas A. Foster Douglas Foster is Professor of Church History in the Graduate School of Theology and Director of the Center for Restoration Studies at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He also serves as Charis Professor (Center for Heritage and Renewal in Spirituality) working with ACU administration on matters of heritage for the University community. Foster's scholarly work has centered on understanding the place of the Stone-Campbell Movement in the larger context of American Christianity, and understanding the idea of Christian unity that was integral to formation of the Movement. |
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Is There a Disciple Way of preaching? Fred Craddock Dr. Fred B. Craddock in Minister Emeritus of the Cherry Log Christian Church in Cherry Log, Georgia. He was named by Newsweek magazine at the turn of the century as one of the ten best living preachers. He is Brandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Emeritus, in the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Much sought after as a lecturer, he has delivered the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale, the Scott Lectures at Claremont School of Theology and Bethany College, WV, the Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt, the Adams Lectures at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, the Westerville Lectures at Austin Presbyterian Seminary, the Mullins Lectures at Southern Seminary and Earl Lectures at Pacific School of Religion. When the word storyteller is mentioned, Dr. Craddock is who comes to mind. In the field of homiletics his approach to sermon development and delivery has inspired vital new insights in Biblical interpretation and presentation. |
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Reaching a Common Understanding of “Truth” and “Method” for Raising the Level of
“Conversation” Engaging the essential and ongoing “Interpretive Communities,”
for affirming “Reality,” “Truth-Claims” and “Sense Making” Enlightenment
Hermeneutics, as originally articulated by Alexander Campbell (1788-1866).
Tracing how these “interpretative principles” speak into the present day Roger A. Sizemore Roger Sizemore is the former President of Phillips Theological Seminary, having received the Ph.D. (in New Testament Studies from the University of Edinburgh, with a year’s study at the University of Tubingen, Germany) and the M.Div. (Christian Theological Seminary), MS (in Psychology, from East Tennessee State University) and an AB from Milligan College. Currently he is in Partnership with Dick Hamm, Rick Lowery and Bill Anderton, for “Distance Learning” in Congregational Transformation at www.transformingthechurch.org. |
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Echoes from Brush Run/Worship Peter M. Morgan Peter Morgan’s ministry has been offered primarily through three settings: Marion (Iowa) Christian Church, the Division of Homeland Ministries (DHM), and the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. He is the author, co-author or compiler/editor of eight books plus numerous articles and essays. He has taught liturgy as adjunct professor at Lexington Theological Seminary. Peter was inspired to enter ministry by his great grandfather, the Disciples preacher E.E. Manley, and by his great uncle, the Disciples home missionary Ray Manley. He continues an unbroken family line of Disciples ministers dating to 1881. In preparation for ministry, Morgan earned an AB degree from Bethany College and an M. Div from Lexington Seminary. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Bethany. In addition, he has been named President Emeritus of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. Peter is now retired in Washington, DC. He and his wife Lynne volunteer as historian/archivist at National City Christian Church. |
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Pastoral Reflections on Communion Don Brewer Don Brewer, a native of Waycross, Georgia, says he received his ministerial training at CYF Conference, TCU, Vanderbilt, and from interaction with Church folk over a five decade period. He served in five full time pastorates in three southeastern states. While at Albany, he chaired the committee which solicited the gift of Camp Christian and began its development. He and Nancy met as freshmen at TCU, married as seniors and celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on April 3. They have three children and four grandchildren. They say they have no mere in-laws, but in-"loves." Don served the regional and general Church as a Camp and Conference Director, Regional moderator, General Board and General Nominating Committee Member. |
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From Brush Run: A voice of Educational
Reform D. Duane Cummins D. Duane has been a visiting scholar in American History at Johns Hopkins University since 2002. He is a past president of Bethany College and of the Division of Higher Education as well as past Moderator of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and a former Darbeth-Whitten Professor of American History at Oklahoma City University. He also served as interim President of Brite Divinity School at TCU, and of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. He is the author of Dale Fiers: Twentieth Century Disciple (TCU Press, 2005) and Kenneth L. Teegarden: The Man, the Church, the Time (TCU Press, spring 2007) |
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Echoes of Millerite Millenarianism among
the Founders and Heirs of Brush Run Jerry Gladson Jerry Gladson is Minister Emeritus of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Marietta, Georgia. A graduate of Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., 1978), he now teaches Hebrew Bible and Disciples history at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, and Richmont Graduate University, Atlanta. He began his ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist church, but in mid-career transferred his ordination to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. He is the author of eleven books. |
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Walter Scott: The Disciples’ Voice of Evangelism William A. Gerrard III William A. Gerrard III. B.S. University of Kentucky M.Div. and M.Th. Lexington Theological Seminary Graduate study at The Divinity School of The University of Chicago Ph.D. Emory University in Theology. Have served a number of Disciples congregations. Have published articles in the area of Disciples History and Theology, and "A Biographical Study of Walter Scott: American Frontier Evangelist." Taught Theology and served as Director of Field Education at the Florida Center for Theological Study in Orlando, FL Wife is Suzanne; sons are Christopher and Jonathan. Presently residing in Atlanta, GA and engaged in teaching and writing. |
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Evangelism as Seen in New Congregation Establishment in the Years 1811-1828 Cathy L. Mansfield Cathy L. Mansfield M.A. 1985 in Missions and Evangelism, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Organizer of the Great Communion Celebration, Oct. 4, 2009 in Washington, Pa. |
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Church Governance, Polity, Ecclesiology and Alexander
Campbell Dick Hamm Dick Hamm served as a minister of Disciples of Christ congregations for 23 years before becoming Regional Minister of Tennessee and then General Minister and President of the Disciples, a post he held for ten years. |
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Echoes of Scripture and Its Meaning Sam Huxford Samuel W. Huxford grew up in South Carolina, a member of a Christian Church established in 1883. With a grandfather named Thomas Campbell Huxford (intentionally!) he has been steeped in the ideals of the Stone-Campbell Movement all his life. Since August of 1976, he has been a part of the faculty of Atlanta Christian College, teaching in the area of biblical studies. He currently serves, in addition to his role with European Evangelistic Society (EES), as Vice President of Student Development and Dean of the Chapel at Atlanta Christian College, soon to become Point University. He continues to teach Biblical Interpretation each year. He is married to Vicki Kindt Huxford, who serves as Director of Operations for EES. Together they have two children, Sarah and Bethany, who is married to Chad Davis. |
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