OFFICE NOTES

 

Ouida and I will be sharing in a busy summer. She will go with me to the 9th Annual Unity Forum in Nashville, July 4-6, to be held on the campus of Scarritt College. We are looking forward not only to the program itself, which brings together a fine group of thinkers and speakers, but to seeing those here and there across the country who plan to be there for it. It is not too late for you to be with us. Call Stan Hime at 615-297-4043 for any information you may need, or simply be there at 7 p.m., July 4, in the college chapel for the opening session. That night you will hear Bob Fife of Milligan College and David Bobo of Indianapolis discuss the nature of the united church. The following evening Perry Gresham of Bethany and I will discuss our historic heritage. Three panel discussions will be held Friday and Saturday in nearby Moorman Auditorium, featuring Edward Fudge, Thomas Langford, Fred Hall, Max Foster, Ed Neely Cullum, James L. Barton, Claire E. Berry, Hall Crowder, Frank Allen Dennis, and Archie Boone. They will discuss faith and opinion, the meaning of freedom, and the blessings and hazards of freedom. And the audience will be participating, and what a high quality audience it promises to be.

Ouida and the children will accompany me to California to attend the North American Christian Convention in Anaheim, July 23-26. We are driving visiting individuals and churches along the way, and we have the likes of Grand Canyon and Disneyland on the agenda. At the convention I will present a paper to the theological forum on the authority of the Bible in the Restoration Movement and will address the college career group on conflicts in the Christian faith.

We will get back just in time, the Lord willing, for me to fly (without Ouida unfortunately) to the World Convention of Churches of Christ in Mexico City, July 30-August 5. This will be largely for Fellowship magazine, and I look forward to meeting disciples from all over the world. I am eager to be with brethren from Europe and South America, and especially from Australia and New Zealand, lands that I hope to visit before long.

I will have to hurry home to get in on the latter part of Camp Warren, conducted by the Water Street Church of Christ in Decatur, Illinois, where I will give lessons on highlights in the life of Jesus. Write to Jack Fleener, 23 Montez Dr., Decatur, IL. 62526. The dates are Aug. 4-10.

God granting, I shall go on to Jefferson, Indiana for the Lewisville Christian Fellowship, Aug. 12-16.1 will speak on Jesus and people. Write to Duval Means, 806 Spicewood Dr., Jefferson, IN 47130 if you are interested in this affair.

I have recently been to Hutchinson, KS, Arkansas City, KS, Denver, CO, Springfield, IL, Birmingham and Montgomery, AL and Nashville, TN in meetings in homes and with congregations, with many thrilling experiences that I will not be able to relate in detail. But I do hope to tell you of my trip to Texas Hill Country (LBJ land), with Ouida at my side, in my next travel diary.

Restoration Mind is the bound volume of this journal for 1971-72, and it contains a special series on the travel letters of Alexander Campbell. It is a 400-page book and is only 4.50. The five previous years are in single bound volumes, 1966-70 and are only 3.50. If you are interested in back copies, we suggest you get these volumes, though we do have loose copies available at 20 cents each.

One of the better minds among our folk of the last generation was R. L. Whiteside, who lived here in Denton much of his life. His daughter still lives here and has enjoyed great success in publishing her father’s works. These make for good, responsible study, and we recommend them to you. Commentary on Romans is the best known and only 3.00. Kingdom of Promise and Prophecy is a fine study of questions related to the kingdom, with generous quotations from Alexander Campbell. 2.50. Doctrinal Discourses treats sundry topics, soundly treated. 3.50. These are all hardbound volumes. The author was once president of ACC.

Francis Schaeffer believes that Genesis is a record of what really happened, not a collection of myths. You will appreciate his treatment of the origin of life, the universe, and man in his Genesis in Space and Time for only 2.25. While ordering get his The Church at the End of the 20th Century, only 1.95.

In the above news item about the unity forum in Nashville it should be mentioned that Pat Boone will speak on “The Unity of the Spirit” on night of July 4. But unless our printer gets with it this will not reach you in time to make a difference, though this is our third announcement of the forum.