October 7, 2026 / Leave a comment
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight An Aside (Between Parts Eight and Nine) Part Nine Part Ten Part Eleven Part Twelve Part Thirteen Among others, two major factors coincided to result in […]
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May 11, 2026 / 2 Comments on The Stone-Campbell Movement, Its Relationship to Latter-Day Saint Origins, and the False Position of Restorationism (Part Three)
Part OnePart Two The Frontier Environment: A Greenhouse for New Belief Systems The wild West of the 1800s, then places like western New York, Kentucky, and Ohio, provided a unique ecosystem for religious innovation. Frontier life was physically disconnected from the accountability of already established biblical, doctrinal and practical roots. Individuals in these remote areas […]
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May 6, 2026 / 2 Comments on The Stone-Campbell Movement, Its Relationship to Latter-Day Saint Origins, and the False Position of Restorationism
An early competition over dueling visions of Christian restoration is one of the most underappreciated intersections in American religious history, even the entire history of the United States itself. Now called the Restorationist Movement, it started as a shared cultural milieu and with a pivotal figure, Sydney Rigdom, who served as the living bridge between […]
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April 16, 2025 / 10 Comments on Can Restorationist Churches Be or Are They True?
This post provides a good accompaniment to the last three posts I’ve written here (one, two, and three). I’ll return to the first two of those posts, as they are the beginning of a continuing series. ************************ Successionism or Restorationism The choices are not apostolic succession or no succession of churches. Apostolic succession is bogus, […]
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