It was interesting to me during the fading weeks of 2007 to see national news magazines featuring 1968 and all the upheavals going on in our culture during that time. The photographs of campus unrest and other images brought back memories not stirred for several years now!
Then, today, early in 2008, finding a few minutes to poke around in my bookmarks, I clicked on The Christian Chronicle and found a couple of bits of confetti still drifting around.
First, I was saddened to learn of the passing of Michael Casey, a professor at Pepperdine U who wrote what many considered the exhaustive chronology and events of the CE movement. He died at age 53 last October of cancer. Perhaps it was only a few months prior to his death that he and I exchanged emails when I asked him if he had an electronic version of the paper he wrote about CE in 1991 and presented at a seminar in Nashville. He didn't have an electronic version and didn't promise one saying he was covered up with other things and might not get to it for a while. Didn't mention the disease that must have been consuming him at the time. I remember telephone interviews with Michael as he was doing his research for the paper. He also did interviews with Jim Bevis and Charles Shelton.Now, perhaps I will attempt to get parts of that paper into some form for wider distribution -- despite one or two differences of interpretation or slight inaccuracies I felt existed.
The second thing I found on The Christian Chronicle webpage was an editorial by Bobby Ross, Jr., editor, who was born in the fall of 1967. I don't read this journal frequently, but was curious to see if it contained any news or names that might ring a bell. Bobby Ross became curious about what was going on in churches of Christ at the time of his birth, so went into back issues to find out. Below is a link to the editorial, with a note to check out the paragraph about William S. Banowsky debating Anson Mount, the religion editor of Playboy magazine. That event was the first big event on the campus of Texas Tech to try to focus attention on the campus and Christianity. Here's the link to the editorial: http://www.christianchronicle.org/article824~Digging_through_the_archives_at_the_big_4-0
So, it seems we're not the only ones looking back to those years.
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