At James Talarico’s Church, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• 1926: A Look Back at America’s 150th Birthday Celebration -- “A century ago, the nation was flocking to Philadelphia for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition. What did a massive 1926 birthday bash look like?”
• Crash Course at Disaster City -- “In this town—population zero—first responders from across the globe hone lifesaving skills”
• Giant Footsteps -- “In 2016, at age 89 and buoyed by her faith, Opal Lee embarked on an ambitious campaign to make Juneteenth a national holiday by walking from her home in Fort Worth to Washington, D.C.”
• Go the Other Way -- “I want to suggest that you consider the other hill country, composed of a gentler, less dramatic topography...”
• Historical Reflections on Baptism and Church Membership -- “According to Booth, to allow unbaptized persons into the church on the basis of their convictions contrary to the congregation’s teaching threatened the very integrity of the church.”
• How Baptists helped end slavery in the United States -- “Many Baptists embraced, if not led, the anti-slavery campaign. That trend began to sweep Southern Baptists along with it until cultural momentum carried them in the opposite direction.”
• How can we protect vulnerable members from cyberfraud? -- “Protect your tools, trust your instincts, and never hesitate to verify. We are all safer when we look out for one another.”
• ICYMI: At James Talarico’s Church, Its Offensive To Respect God’s Pronouns — But Abortion is OK. -- “In the name of inclusivity, Talarico’s church avoids referring to God as ‘Father’ as Christians have done for thousands of years.”
• Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ -- “The present book authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery.”
• Lex Talionis and the Human Fetus -- “As we observed at the outset, induced abortion was so abhorrent to the Israelite mind that it was not necessary to have a specific prohibition dealing with it in the Mosaic law.”
• Muffuletta -- “A briny olive spread combines with a smorgasbord of cold cuts and cheese to create a mouth-watering BIG bite of a sandwich, and I am in love.”
• Op Ed: How the SBC’s Newly-Discovered “Elder Plurality” Enables Women “Pastors” -- “Though these two streams often came from different theological instincts, they converged in practice.”
• Payday Someday -- “I introduce to you Ahab, the vile human toad who squatted upon the throne of his nation – the worst of Israel’s kings.”
• Power and Light -- “The Rural Electrification Act, enacted May 20, 1936, made available low-cost federal loans to rural landowners who had banded together in hopes of threading the countryside with electric lines.”
• Rethinking Doubting Thomas Jefferson -- “Thomas Jefferson’s views on Christianity are probably more complex than how he is used as a debate tool by partisans on opposite sides.”
• The Cowboy Life -- “If you met Charles Siringo in 1927 Los Angeles, you couldn’t have guessed that he was a legend of the Old West.”
• “The Texas Tornado:” J. Frank Norris—Baptist Renegade -- “Norris’ fight with Baylor spilled over into Baptist politics when he and his church were denied seats at the Baptist General Convention in both 1922 and 1923.”
• Walter doesn’t live here anymore -- “When World War 2 started, Clarence received permission to share the book with United States soldiers overseas.”
• Wet (West) Texas -- “Rivers, springs and even waterfalls are hidden across West Texas.”

Baptist history on Ancestry

If you have an Ancestry subscription, are interested in Texas Baptist history, and especially if you are interested in the Anderson Baptist Church (formerly Antioch) of Grimes County, Texas, there are 29 pages of membership records here:

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62267/records/3289

There are some records of five other churches that follow alphabetically (some, unfortunately, not that well labeled).

Or for broader searches, see HERE.

What AI exposes, and other music links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• What AI Exposes About Our Songs and Our Souls -- “Can a soul-less artist produce a soul-full act of worship”
• The Case for Shorter Hymnals -- “The truth is, congregations love repetition. We all do, whether we know it or not. Repetition is what makes music music and what makes good music good music.”
• Styles – Sacred Harp Singing -- “...regardless of location or voices, Sacred Harp sounds unlike academic choral singing or gospel singing in which melody dominates and harmony embellishes and supports it.”
• Shape-Note Singing in Mississippi: A Preliminary History -- “Sacred Harp singing in Mississippi, especially in Calhoun, Chickasaw, Webster and adjoining counties, has long been identified by a unique practice not found elsewhere: the use of seven syllables (doremi) to name the four shaped notes.”
• Scripture References found in Hymns. New Lists -- “I have begun to create a cross references between hymns and Scripture which those hymns reference.”
• Sacred Harp Museum Catalog -- “Listing of items held at the Sacred Harp Museum, Carrollton, Georgia.”
• ‘Sacred Harp Singing’ Goes Gay: Should You Mark and Avoid? -- “The other is the Cooper revision, known as the ‘Blue Book,’ published by the Sacred Harp Book Company, which is the older of the two and which has not (yet) been hijacked by the queer contingent.”
• Sacred Harp and Related Shape-Note Music Resources: Tunebooks, Music Books, and Hymnals -- “This guide focuses on music stylistically related to that in The Sacred Harp tunebooks but not on shape-note gospel music.”
• Rethinkin’ Our Thinkin’ -- “The first 15 pages of Rethinkin’ Our Thinkin’: Thoughts on Sacred Harp ‘Myths’.”
• Jamie MacDonald, Christian pop singer -- “Jamie MacDonald was among the new class of Artists named to watch as Spotify presented the rising stars of 2026.”
• Gon’ Act Like A Preacher, Ride From Town to Town -- “This article is an initial ‘testing the water’ on a subject in earlier African American song which has rarely been considered in print up to this point in time – the preacher in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”
• Be Still, My Soul -- “Two gifted women from two different countries gave the English-speaking world this beautiful hymn of comfort.”
• Approaching 150 -- “The first 15 pages of Approaching 150: A Brief History of the East Texas Musical Convention and Sacred Harp in East Texas.”
• Anchor Hymns Makes Old Things New -- “The group’s tagline, ‘songs that will outlast us,’ nods to its mission to offer the church newly composed songs and newly arranged hymns that feel both historically rooted and forward-looking.”
• An Argument for Heartier Hymnals -- “Allowing room for growth means having songs you can grow into, as well as songs that fit your people currently.”

A Kind Heretic, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Kind Heretic Is Still A Heretic -- “A man who speaks about Jesus with warmth while denying the moral order that Christ himself affirmed is not a Christian statesman. He is a wolf in a very well-pressed suit.”
• Beaverdam Baptist | Wilkes County | Organized in 1836 -- “Regular church meetings were held the second Sunday of each month, but they also met in conference the day before to take care of business matters.”
• Charted Waters -- “Dozens of invisible trails lead kayakers and canoers through scenic waterways.”
• Christianity As A Costume: What James Talarico Reveals About Progressive Religion -- “Talarico’s Christianity is a Trojan horse with a progressive interior and a Christian exterior. There is no progressive policy that Talarico’s Christianity hasn’t made peace with. Talarico supports abortion access, transgender ideology...”
• E. J. Campbell, educator -- “E. J. Campbell came to Nacogdoches in 1910, appointed principal of Nacogdoches Colored School. For the next 27 years, Campbell oversaw a growing school and expanded opportunities in public education…”
• From Posts to Pillars -- “Fort Brown and four other U.S. Army forts, established along the Rio Grande in the years after Texas became a state in 1845, endured for decades as military installations.”
• Guided lessons for learning to read Greek manuscripts -- “Xeirographa currently offers several different features for learners to ease the transition from reading printed Greek texts to manuscripts of any period.”
• In All Their Glory -- “Politics and religion can divide people. But they’ll come together for something important like the Seaquist House and the courthouse. And that’s amazing.”
• Jehovah not Yahweh: Refuting Andrew Case’s arguments on the divine name -- “Neither Pietro Galatino nor Medieval Jews invented the ‘Jehovah’ pronunciation; it is from the Word of God.”
• “Let the Little Children Come”: A Brief Case for Welcoming Children into Corporate Worship -- “The Bible normalizes children in gathered worship.”
• The Scariest Word in Pastoral Ministry -- “It became more like a job to be done; it just happened to be a job where you had to talk about God.”
• Titles of the New Testament Database -- “With this search tool you can locate and organise information on the Greek titles of the New Testament found in the manuscripts.”
• Vital Sparks: The poetry of Judge Jackson -- “I think the lyrics fall into three main categories: texts from the Cooper book edition of The Sacred Harp, texts from other books, and lyrics he wrote himself.”
• What Love Looks Like -- “So Cicero sold the house and moved a one-room cabin onto their land.”
• What We Learned from Asking a Pastor to Step Down -- “Character is not a secondary, nice-to-have feature for an elder; it is essential to the role.”
• You’re Not a Healthy Church Unless You Care About Titus 2 -- “...if your church is committed to being both biblical and healthy, then your women must be discipling one another.”

Who should administer, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Who Should Administer the Ordinances? -- “Just as your church (hopefully) does not allow just anyone to preach the Word, so also should your church think carefully about who administers the ordinances.”
• What Is the Jezebel Spirit and What Are It’s Characteristics? -- “In my estimation, it is far better to view this “spirit of Jezebel” as a sketch of specific character traits which can be deadly to a local body.”
• Voltaire’s Prediction, Home, and the Bible Society: Truth or Myth? Further Evidence of Verification -- “For years there have been those who dispute this story as to its validity.”
• The Subtle Art of Sentence Structure: How to Write Like a Pro -- “While varied sentence structures can enhance your writing, clarity and conciseness should always be your primary goals.”
• The Septuagint (LXX): A Scurrilous Imposter Set Against the Hebrew Old Testament -- “The LXX continues to be treated with a mystical reverence wholly out of proportion to its origins.”
• Spice—And Everything Nice -- “After the final tastings, the pavilion overflows with competitors, their supporters and curious onlookers.”
• Should I Stay or Should I Go? T.T. Shields, Benjamin Beddome, and Pastoral Transitions -- “The glory of God, not the influence of gifted men, governs the priorities for calling and appointing pastors.”
• Roasted Pecan Bark Syrup -- “Focus on gathering the loose, thinner strips, spreading the harvest across multiple trees to minimize any risk of damage.”
• Op-Ed: Leftists Hailing Recent ‘Victories’ Are Delusional -- “...it is New York City that will serve as the center point on the East Coast for the continuing failure of leftism.”
• La Tamalada: A Christmas Tamale Tradition -- “The old part of our tradition is sitting around a big table, spreading masa on the corn husks with the back of a spoon.”
• Is Phone Addiction Really That Bad? -- “Our addiction to dopamine media is training us to love much what ought to be loved little.”
• Immutability and Identity, Part Two -- “...let me briefly state that the AV never translates tam as ‘blameless,’ whereas all of the modern translations which I checked do translate it as ‘blameless.’”
• Immutability and Identity, Part One -- “Families change. Your family could change. Churches change. Your church could change. Nations change. Your nation could change. ”
• How to Survive a Cultural Crisis -- “It’s ironic that Christians are told not to impose their views on others, even as the threat of job loss or other penalties loom over Christians for not toeing the new party line.”
• How to Maintain Your Language Skills When You’re Not Using Them Regularly -- “...there are numerous strategies you can employ to keep your language skills sharp, even in the absence of consistent use.”
• How to Defuse Hostile Members Meetings -- “Hopefully this isn’t controversial advice, but members meetings are for . . . church members. And church members should be men and women who have made a credible profession of faith...”
• Five Misrepresentations of the Confessional Text position by Mark Ward in ‘The Septuagint and Confessional Bibliology’ in The Authority of the Septuagint -- “Mark Ward makes no serious reference to or any interaction with perhaps the key emphasis of the Confessional Bibliology movement.”
• Drawing the Line on Masculinity: Getting a Male Role Back -- “Men won’t get any role until they decide that there is a male role.”
• Doctoring Reality -- “Frontier physicians relied on confidence more than credentials.”
• Catechism by William Gadsby -- “Jesus Christ is the only refuge from the storm and the only foundation for a poor sinner to build his hopes upon.”
• A Tip of the Hat to Paris -- “France’s Eiffel Tower is taller and older, sure, but it’s rather bare.”
• Altered, Not Antique: The Latinized Greek Text of 1 Corinthians in GA 629 -- “...little has been written about the manuscript beyond scattered remarks that its text often conforms to Latin conventions.”
• An Historical Survey of Church Discipline -- “Decline in the practice of church discipline can also be directly tied to a lax attitude in the realm of regenerate church membership.”
• A Dandy Debut -- “Don Meredith, the first and perhaps most beloved Dallas Cowboy, found his second calling in the booth.”

Why We Sing, and other music links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Why We Sing—and Why a Hymnal -- “A hymnal speaks to the context in which it is produced and lives.”
• There’s a reason every hit worship song sounds the same -- “A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you.”
• The Value of Hymn Singing -- “Singing hymns like these [biblically faithful hymns] reinforces the Bible’s teaching on God’s love for us while also helping us give expression to our love for God.”
• The Matter of Tempo in The Sacred Harp -- “...folkways, to be folkways, should be the free-flowing expression of the folk.”
• Shape Note Books and Singings -- “I got to thinking about a better way to list singings so that it could be searched more easily than pure text listings.”
• One Way to Make Sure Worship Songs Don’t Sound the Same -- “The only way to change the current state of worship songwriting and production is to create something different.”
• Mississippi's African American Shape Note Tradition -- “I attended a singing once, where a man said, "I've been coming to singing all my life—in fact, I started coming nine months before I was born."”
• How Can I Make the Most of Musical Worship If I’m Not Musical? -- “While the other members of my family joined confidently in musical worship, my dad sang steadily through his shyness.”
• Can the Church Save Singing? Three Simple Recommendations -- “What do you want to remember when you’ve forgotten virtually everything else? Sing that.”
• Biblical Principles for Church Music (3) -- “A Biblical principle requires study and thought about how it should be applied. It places great responsibility on us.”
• Biblical Principles for Church Music (2) -- “The contented Christian finds reasons to praise God in all situations.”
• Biblical Principles for Church Music (1) -- “Church music should aid and not impede us in worshipping God in spirit and in truth.”
• African American Rural Hymnody & The Sacred Harp -- “When Bill Tallmadge and Milton Rogovin journeyed from Buffalo, NY to rural southeast Alabama in the early summer of 1968, they tapped into an African-American religious and musical tradition that dated back to the late-19th century.”

10 Things You Never Knew, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• 10 Things You Never Knew About Funeral Home History -- “Funeral homes might seem like they’ve been around forever, but they really didn’t emerge in the United States until the mid-1800s.”
• Baptist Roots: The Use of Models in Tracing Baptist Origins -- “The interpretation of historical evidence is greatly affected by the particular approach of the historian.”
• Does Pragmatism Tend Toward Liberalism? -- “One of the first things to go missing in pragmatic churches is regenerate church membership, or any meaningful way to discern whether or not a person wanting to join has placed their faith in Jesus.”
• How a Christian Woman is to Adorn Herself -- “Seek to find out what this means and go wherever the Lord shows you.”
• How Dictionaries Decide Which Words to Include and Exclude -- “The balance between tradition and innovation will remain a focal point for lexicographers as they strive to document the richness of human communication.”
• How far did the early Christians worship God? -- “The question which arises is whether these accepted terms are the best or the most appropriate ones to describe what Christians do, or what they ought to be doing, when they gather together.”
• How to Identify the Andersonites -- “This article is intended to be a warning for faithful Baptist churches both against Anderson’s practice and doctrine, as well as a ‘how-to’ guide for identifying the churches that openly or secretly associate with Anderson directly or at least maintain his doctrinal positions.”
• Is it True That No Two NT Manuscripts (MSS) Are Exactly the Same? -- “Years ago I myself wrote that no two MSS were identical, merely repeating the prevailing canard. But that was before I started collating MSS for myself.”
• Lanier and Ross’ Fallacious Footnote -- “Consider first the sloppiness of the footnote. While the first two references are properly cited, the reader is then offered a vague reference to ‘various’ materials produced by RBS...”
• Name Dropping -- “...The white board and batten Nameless School operated for 36 years, from 1909 to 1945.”
• Raising up Pastors Is the Church’s Work -- “...seminaries are...usually used for the wrong purposes. ”
• Terlingua’s Traces -- “...a trip to the cemetery confirms that Texans have been living out here for a very long time.”
• The God-Ordained Method for Missions -- “Sadly, the Christian life in the West has become more individualistic over the last sixty or seventy years.”
• The Roots of Red -- “Like many quintessentially American foods, chili (or more accurately chili con carne) was born from that unique amalgam of cultures found in the U.S.”
• Your Moral Code Has Christian Roots Whether You Know It or Not -- “he found...his core beliefs about universal value and equality...lay not in the French Revolution, nor in the Declaration of Independence, nor in the Enlightenment, but in the Bible.”

300 years of Printing the Authorised Version of the Holy Bible

Some KJV reading.

• 300 Years of Printing the Authorised Version of the Holy Bible at Cambridge, 1629-1929. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929
• Earliest known draft of King James Bible found in Cambridge
• Scrivener’s abomination Part I, John M. Asquith
• Scrivener’s abomination Part II, John M. Asquith
• Scrivener’s abomination Part III, John M. Asquith
• Scrivener’s abomination Part IV, John M. Asquith

Lectures on the New Hampshire Confession of Faith

Lectures on the New Hampshire Confession of Faith, by B. H. Carroll and Calvin Goodspeed.

Southwestern Journal of Theology, Volume 51, Number 2, Spring 2009.

Should Churches Excommunicate, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Why Churches Should Excommunicate Longstanding Non-Attenders -- “This practice is entirely in accord with the Bible’s teaching on what a church is, what a pastor is, and what biblical love is.”
• What Is Church-Centered Missions? -- “What we believe about the church will determine how we carry out our missions mandate. No agency or parachurch entity can discharge this role.”
• The Value of Hymn Singing -- “Singing hymns like these [biblically faithful hymns] reinforces the Bible’s teaching on God’s love for us while also helping us give expression to our love for God.”
• The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries -- “Cassina does not make you vomit. Both modern scientific analysis and centuries of regular use by Southerners confirms this.”
• Sexual Anarchy In the United States -- “I first heard someone use ‘sexual anarchy’ with reference for the new male cheerleaders for National Football League teams.”
• Saga on the San Saba -- “The small town of Menard (population 1,300) sits along the blurry line where the Hill Country turns into West Texas.”
• Rick Norris’ “Revised Cambridge KJV’s” (part 2) -- “...a ragged Bible on the cover communicates exactly what Norris really thinks of our ‘grand old Bible’.”
• Rick Norris’ “Revised Cambridge KJV’s” (part 1) -- “Rick Norris was a well known online commenter in bulletin boards and Facebook groups on the subject of editions of the KJB.”
• Graves that Reach for the Stars -- “This site is also well known because of the legend that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897 and the pilot, killed in the crash, was buried here.”
• From Forest to Cup: Crafting the Perfect Yaupon Tea- A Complete Guide -- “It is a great source of polyphenols and flavonoids to help prevent inflammation and cancer”
• Eight Reasons to Study Baptist History -- “5. Because both theology and ecclesiology matter.”
• Early Attack on True Doctrine Upends Catholic and Protestant Historical Argument -- “A correct view of history will not contradict what Jesus said about the perpetuity of His churches. It would not introduce doctrine that did not exist...”
• Counting Down -- “Missile silo owners are fighting rust and ruin to preserve and repurpose subterranean Cold War relics.”
• Article: "To the saints which are at Ephesus": Retrieving the Classic Christian Consensus on the Intended Audience of Ephesians -- “An article published in the Bible League Quarterly, No. 502 (July-September, 2025), 24-33.”

Apostrophe Protection, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Century of the Simon -- “The man whose name is on Brenham’s famed Simon Theatre never saw it completed, but the renovated theater still reflects his vision a century later.”
• Apostrophe Protection Society -- “Since 2001, the Apostrophe Protection Society has had a mission to preserve the correct use of this important, though much misused, item of punctuation.”
• Can Anyone Take a Biblical, Conservative Cultural Position in the United States today? -- “The only way to combat the cultural reality in the United States is by boldly asserting the biblical and historical belief and practice, and then not back down.”
• “Can Two Walk Together Unless They Be Agreed”: The Origins of the Primitive Baptists, 1800-1840 -- “The writings of Primitive Baptist leaders clearly indicate that they did not see themselves as restoring anything. Rather, they were defending traditional ways of Baptist thinking and practice.”
• If you can’t see the conspicuous it’s because you won’t see it -- “Louis Gaussen, Divine Inspiration of the Bible, published in 1841, 40 years before the notorious novel 1881 Greek NT the pre-critical theology of inspiration was still being articulated.”
• “It was really hard for me to stay Protestant”: On Retrievalism and the Gospel -- “...historical theology must give way to exegetical theology as king of the disciplines. This is not only about the doctrine we hold, though; it is about our method...”
• Lake View Cemetery: One of the Prettiest in the World -- “Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the prettiest garden cemeteries in the world. With more than 115,000 gravestones, it is also huge. If you go, bring your walking shoes!”
• Living the Good Loaf -- “Armed with historical documents detailing the grain varieties grown in Texas in the early 20th century and some hazy information about mills powered by Austin’s Barton Springs in the 19th century...”
• Lodged in Time -- “Castroville, 25 miles west of San Antonio, was settled in the 1840s by immigrants from the Alsace region of France.”
• No, Southern Baptists Have Not “Officially Rejected” the Nicene Creed -- “Matthew Barrett, well-known SBC seminary professor and prolific author, has just published an essay explaining why he is leaving the SBC...he levels more than one broadside against the SBC and unfortunately bears false witness in the process.”
• O, Oh -- “Recently, a reader asked me what the difference was between the word ‘O’ and the word ‘Oh’ as they are used in a King James Bible.”
• Spurgeon’s College, influential Evangelical training center in London, to close after 169 years -- “The trustees stated that ongoing financial challenges — compounded by declining student enrollment and a difficult funding landscape for theological education — had left the college in a precarious position in recent years.”
• The Apparent Cainan Contradiction in Luke 3.36 -- “The scribal error explanation of Cainan at Luke 3.36 is beset with a significant difficulty: the manuscript evidence is clearly opposed to it.”
• The Strange Second Life of Ohio’s ‘Big Basket’ Building -- “At its peak in 2000, Dave Longaberger’s company employed more than 8,200 people, making it one of the primary employers in the Dresden, Ohio area.”
• Unscriptural and Extreme Forms of Separation -- “No doubt separation must occur out of obedience to God and His Word. However, the cancel culture exists with the purpose, not for others, but for self.”
• Why Critical Scholarship Disdains the King James Bible (and Fishermen) -- “The Sanhedrin came to its end in 70AD – the fishermen are still here, fishing.”

Almost Forgotten, and other music links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Neglected American Classic -- “The Sacred Harp is a deeply communal form of prayer in the churches where it has been, and in some cases still is, practiced.”
• A Very Basic Introduction To Four-Part Singing -- “If you have no idea about what part you are – guess, and then change if you need to!”
• Almost Forgotten Sacred Harp Memory -- “After about 10 years of applying what was learned and observing how the music was written, I tried my hand at composing songs.”
• Baylor Digital Hymnals Collection -- “Currently, seventy-five hymnals have been digitized with complete metadata, including their respective tunes and first lines of text.”
• English Particular Baptist Singing and Congregational Worship Practices to 1700 -- “A large number of early Particulars generally did not practice congregational singing at all; this is apparent from Francis Cornwell’s 1646 Some Reasons Against Stinted Form of Praising God in Psalms...”
• Implications from Isaac Watts’s Trinitarian Controversy -- “A church’s songs do indeed more potently impact the theology of a congregation than that church’s Confessional statements.”
• In Praise of Low-Budget, Non-Professional Music Ministries -- “The ministry of music in our churches is vast and deep and wonderful.”
• Introducing “Collins,” a New Shape-Note Music Typeface for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition -- “The new music typeface is named “Collins” in honor of the T. K. & P. G. Collins printing firm of Philadelphia who produced the first edition of The Sacred Harp in 1844.”
• Manifesto on Psalms and Hymns -- “Whatever our differences, no one maintains as a point of doctrine that we are prohibited from singing psalms.”
• Nine Choices for a Healthy Music Ministry -- “...some Christians listening to a subset of their number sing is nowhere commanded or exampled in New Testament churches.”
• Page Tracking Table -- “Songs of the Denson tradition Sacred Harp book, on different pages where they have appeared”
• Remembering Squire Parsons -- “Mr. Parsons was also ordained as a minister in 1979 at his home church, Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.”
• The Page 37 Test: Identifying Basic Editions of The Sacred Harp -- “I’ve devised what I call the “Page 37 Test,” a simple way to distinguish between seven different editions of The Sacred Harp.”
• Why Music Thrives in Our Universities -- “Music isn’t necessarily an antidote to the many cognitive distortions that trouble our campuses, but it has enormous latent power...”

Statement on the Antichrist, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Wisconsin Lutheran Statement on the Antichrist -- “We thereby affirm that we identify this ‘Antichrist’ with the Papacy as it is known to us today, which shall, as 2 Thessalonians 2:8 states...”
• When a Pastor Leaves a Church Should He Unfriend All Parishioners? -- “Rev. Webster seems to view his role as priest as being purely professional. He’s not there to be anyone’s friend...”
• The Deceptive Dangers of Logos Bible Software -- “...the business model that Logos has adopted allows them to play both sides against the middle.”
• Steel to the Stars -- “We want to gather memories and record as much of the history of Lone Star Steel as possible for future generations”
• Sin outstrips virtue in its ability to contaminate and spread? -- “It is much easier to contaminate something than to decontaminate it.”
• Resurrection Hope Is More Prevalent in the Old Testament Than It May First Seem -- “When the biblical authors tell of God’s power that restores, frees, heals, or raises, you are reading about the power of life overcoming the forces of death.”
• Not All KJVOs are Created Equal -- “When the KJV was written, the English-speaking world had two English Bibles available: the Geneva Bible and the Bishop’s Bible. The English-speaking world was deeply divided between these two Bibles, and the KJV effectively settled the dispute.”
• Mississippi Baptists and the civil rights struggle in the 1950s and 1960s -- “In the 1950s, most White Baptists were content with a paternalistic approach of sponsoring ministry to Black Baptists, while keeping their schools, churches and social interaction segregated.”
• How Many Female Pastors are in the SBC? -- “Spurred on by these questions, our team found what any interested and motivated observer could. But the results were nevertheless shocking.”
• Higher Education -- “Even though lots of Texas universities have grandiose lecture halls, only one can boast a classroom with a 20-mile view.”
• Hero Dad’s Final Act During Texas Flood Nearly Severed His Arm, But It Worked -- “Ryan finally made the difficult decision to punch out the window in an effort to get everyone to safety.”
• Gorging a Path -- “...a homeowners association teamed with Lake Travis Fire Rescue to hire 100 goats from Rent-A-Ruminant as part of an experimental fire mitigation program.”
• Churches and Religious Organizations Can Endorse Political Candidates, IRS Announces -- “In a federal court filing to resolve a lawsuit by two Texas churches and the National Religious Broadcasters, the IRS said communications between a house of worship and its congregation are exempt from the Johnson Amendment.”
• City of Waco, Texas to allow church members to engage in religious dialogue with Brazos Park East event attendees -- “First Liberty Institute has announced that the City of Waco will now allow church members to freely engage in religious dialogue with local attendees at the Brazos Park East...”
• A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism -- “...I was at length induced, by presenting solicitations of many of my friends, to compose the following...”
• A Post-Mortem on the Sanchez/Law Amendment -- “The platform argued that if our constitution clarifies that the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture, then we would be at risk of being sued for defamation.”

Does Cinnamon Kill Ants, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• 10 Cemetery Walking Tours from Around the World -- “...if art, history, and nature are your passions, a cemetery walking tour will probably be right up your alley.”
• 20 Natural Repellents to Get Rid of Ants -- “Fortunately, there are natural and DIY ant-repellent methods to get rid of ants without calling an exterminator.”
• A challenge to Calvinism: M.T. Martin and the controversy that rocked Mississippi Baptists in the 1890s -- “The crux of the controversy was Martin’s emphasis on full assurance, which often led people who had previously professed faith and been baptized, to question their salvation...”
• Center for New Testament Restoration -- “Electronic transcriptions of every available extant Greek manuscript containing portions of the New Testament up to the year 400 AD.”
• Communities Make Small Town Charm a Priority Amid Diverse Influences -- “The small towns and cultural districts are the superstars of the Upper East Side of Texas, each with its own unique personality.”
• Directional Adverbs in our King James Bible -- “These adverbs carry precise meanings that faithfully convey the sense of the underlying Greek and Hebrew words.”
• Does Cinnamon Kill Ants? -- “Cinnamon confuses ant navigation by disrupting their scent trails.”
• First Things First -- “When reviewing the census we need to look for any variations we can think of for our ancestor’s names. ”
• Hearty egg meal -- “Salsa Verde, Hash Brown & Bacon Breakfast Skillet.”
• Ode to a Mighty Hunter -- “Texas’ diversity of colorful dragonflies and damselflies beguiles bird and butterfly watchers.”
• Should the Threat of Lawsuits Keep You from Practicing Church Discipline? -- “Discipline, when done rightly, is a form of love. It upholds the seriousness of sin, but also opens the door to restoration. The goal is not mere exclusion—it’s repentance and reconciliation.”
• The Cradle and the Cross -- “...two sabbaths followed Christ’s death, preventing the women from coming to the grave until the third day, Sunday morning.”
• The death of the university may soon be upon us. Good riddance. -- “The advent of ChatGPT two years ago has made coursework essays and online exams completely pointless.”
• The WASPs Who Flew Out of Sweetwater -- “The Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, who trained at the remote airbase, about 40 miles west of Abilene, were part of an experimental wartime program designed to free up male pilots for combat.”
• Understanding The King James Verb Suffixes (-est and -eth). -- “Understand that both forms are singular. They describe the action of a single individual.”
• Was Isaac Watts a Unitarian? Athanasian Trinitarianism and the Boundary of Christian Fellowship -- “How the wondrous doctrine of the blessed Trinity shines, through the whole of our religion, and sheds a glory upon every part of it!”
• Why Is Hot Honey Everywhere All of a Sudden — and What Is Hot Honey Anyway? -- “To get to the root of this hot honey frenzy, we need to go back in time by about two decades.”

William Tyndale, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• William Tyndale: the Apostle of England -- “The Bible was an unknown book to all but the elite clergy.”
• The “Racial Reconciliation” Movement Is Over. Good—Progressives Ruined It. -- “No one was going to submit to moral browbeating for the sins of other people (in different time zones and different centuries) forever.”
• The Historical Story of External Factors Perverting the Meaning of Church -- “What the Bible says the church is, is what it is, regardless of what occurs in the world or what men may say or have said that it is.”
• Strong’s Concordance – a Good Tool Gone Bad -- “...the ‘dictionary’ in the back of Strong’s is not really a dictionary at all, and should not be used to find the ‘real, true, or root meaning’ of a word...”
• “Shepherds for Sale” Turns up the Heat on Gavin Ortlund -- “This won’t be the last Big Eva effort to try to discredit Megan’s book by relying almost exclusively on rhetoric and name recognition over reason and logic.”
• Sharpening My Knowledge -- “On a recent trip to the Panhandle, I found myself entangled in the history of the so-called devil’s rope.”
• Plain Reasons for Keeping to the Authorised Version -- “Why should we keep to the Authorised Version of the Bible in preference to the many modern versions now available?”
• Matt Maher: Building the One-World Church Through Music -- “Maher’s stated goal in ministry is to bring together all denominations and build the ‘one-world church’...”
• “Land of Promise: The First Fifty Years of Baptists in the Pacific Northwest.” Baptist History & Heritage, Volume 52, No. 1 -- “This paper summarizes the first fifty years of Baptist work in the Pacific Northwest, beginning with the formation of the first Baptist church in 1844 to the proliferation of Baptist associations and conventions and the rejection for affiliation by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1894.”
• John Owen and the Traditional Protestant View of the Hebrew Old Testament -- “It is forgotten today because the traditional Protestant view of Scripture has been discarded, completely by critical scholars and partially by evangelical scholars.”
• Home of the Brave -- “The long-awaited National Medal of Honor Museum in North Texas tells the stories of our nation’s greatest heroes.”
• Heaven in Houston -- “There I sat, in total silence, on the campus of Houston’s Rice University, surrounded by dozens of other people just staring at the ceiling.”
• Careful on that there Bridge! -- “1931 was a banner year for the construction of free bridges across the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas.”
• All Quiet Along the Potomac -- “And other poems by Ethelinda ‘Ethel Lynn’ Elliot Beers”
• A Twist on Cornbread -- “Meet the East Texan who turned her childhood snack into a hit sandwich.”

A Journey, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Journey of Resilience -- “Caddo Mounds State Historic Site builds community while rebuilding itself after a devastating 2019 tornado.”
• Did The Doctrine of The Trinity Originate in The Roman Catholic Church? -- “...we must briefly define the doctrine of the Trinity so we can specify what we are seeking.”
• How 55 Verses Were Removed From the Bible and More -- “This passage has been handled in different ways, from literally following the Hebrew to removing 55 verses for ease of reading.”
• John 5:2 “There is in Jerusalem...” -- “Does the grammar of John 5:2 support an early date for John’s Gospel?”
• King James Bible Companion, sample -- “Definitions of over 600 less-familiar KJV words, in a booklet that will tuck in your King James Bible as a handy reference tool.”
• Legacy of the True Historical Patrick -- “Quite clearly Patrick saw himself as a sinner. He did not look to some spark of divine life from within himself or to some ritual; rather, he looked unto Christ Jesus.”
• Mark Ward Knocks Down Straw-Men in Preview of IVP Chapter on the Septuagint -- “Mark Ward has dropped another video which he believes is a critique of the Confessional Text Position, often called Confessional Bibliology.”
• Michael Martin Under the Microscope -- “Dr. Bahnsen takes apologetics beyond the ‘theory’ of defending the faith and places one of the leading, philosophically competent antagonists to Christian theism ‘under the microscope’ for detailed analysis and refutation.”
• Regarding the Ryrie Study Bible on Psalm 12:7 -- “The Ryrie Study Bible (RSB)2 at first glance appears to take a neutral position on this passage.”
• “Sweet is the work, my God, my King” – A 2025 Update on the Hymnals Digital Collection -- “Hymnals and hymnbooks have been intricately tied to the tradition of church music since the early days of the printing press.”
• The Date of John’s Gospel: Are We Witnessing a Paradigm Shift? -- “...I saw no reason not to accept the late date until George produced his argument about John 5:2...”
• The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, peer review process -- “This journal uses a double-anonymous peer review model. ”
• The Poet of Quiet Things, Karle Wilson Baker -- “In the 1910s, she became the most frequently published poet in the Yale Review.”
• The Supposed Missing נ Verse in Psalm 145 -- “...several of the Psalms and other passages in the Old Testament are acrostics; that is, in the Hebrew each verse or group of verses begins with a consecutive letter of the alphabet.”
• The Three-Headed Monster and the Evangelical Betrayal of the Bible: Exposing the Major Weapons Levied against the Trustworthiness of the Bible - Part 1 -- “This sustained attack on the Bible flowered in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and utilized three main weapons: Historical Criticism...Textual Criticism...Darwinism...”
• The Three-Headed Monster and the Evangelical Betrayal of the Bible: Exposing the Major Weapons Levied against the Trustworthiness of the Bible - Part 2 -- “We have reached the central issue, and the battle lines are clear. The Bible claims to be the very word of God Himself.”
• Tripping Through Time -- “ Inside the 18,000-square-foot Jack Sisemore RV Museum sit dozens of vintage recreational vehicles and trailers looking like they just rolled off the showroom floor.”
• Ward’s Best Reply, Not So Good -- “I am not going to force the Scripture to say something it doesn’t say, as I feel Bro. Ward has tried to do with 1 Corinthians 14.”
• Why We Do Not Utilize the Nicene Creed -- “One lesson to be learned is that we must strive to be precise theologians, to study diligently to show ourselves approved unto God, and to write our beliefs with the expectation that the next generation may read what we have claimed to believe.”
• William Tyndale: Months of Work, Lost at Sea! -- “All subsequent translations, including the Geneva Bible and the Authorized Version, leaned heavily upon the beautiful phrases and words used by William Tyndale to give God’s Word to the common people...”
• 9 Ways to Find Female Ancestors in Newspapers -- “Researching female ancestors in traditional family history records or newspapers can be challenging.”

Articles on Italics in Bibles

Some online articles I have found that discuss the use of differentiated type (usually italics) in Bible texts.

• Answers to Inquiries, J. C. Philpot, (editor, The Gospel Standard, Strict Baptist periodical)
• Concerning Parenthesis and Italics, John M. Asquith (pastor, Sandusky Baptist Church)
• Exceptions to the rule: The use of distinguishing type in the King James Bible, R. L. Vaughn (pastor, Old Prospect Baptist Church)
• Italics in Bibles, R. L. Vaughn (pastor, Old Prospect Baptist Church)
• Italics in the KJV, Christopher Yetzer (Baptist missionary in Italy)
• On the Use of the Italic Type by the Translators, F. H. A. Scrivener (compiler of The New Testament in the Original Greek according to the Text followed in the Authorized Version)
• Reading the 1611 Bible, R. L. Vaughn (pastor, Old Prospect Baptist Church)
• The Case for Italics in Bible Translation, John C. Poirier (Chair of Biblical Studies, Kingswell Theological Seminary)
• The Italicized Words in the King James Bible, James L. Melton (pastor, Bible Baptist Church)
• The Use of Italics in the English Versions of the New Testament, William F. Specht (Seventh-day Adventist)
• The Use of Italics in the King James Bible, David L. Brown (King James Bible Research Council)
• Why Are Some KJV Words Italicized?, David W. Daniels (author, researcher)
• Why is that writing slanted? The Use of Italic Type in Bible, D. E. Anderson (Trinitarian Bible Society)
• Why the Use of Italicized words in the King James Bible?, Will Kinney (author, Baptist)

Words you have to look up, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• 120 Together -- “In the year 2015 the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland (formerly Baptist Union of Ireland until 2000) will have been in existence for 120 years.”
• Words You Always Have to Look Up -- “But there is a further point of confusion that can send someone to the dictionary…”
• WM 320 Initial Response: ESV Text Update (2025) -- “A response to the announcement by Crossway of a 2025 update to the English Standard Version.”
• WM 319: A Response to Mark Ward’s Offer to “Translate” the 1689 Confession -- “He makes no mention of the fact, however, that ‘circumstances’ has long been a technical term among Reformed theologians in discussions especially over the Regulative Principle of Worship.”
• William Tyndale: Why he is up there with Chaucer, Cranmer and Shakespeare. -- “Glossing over his theological works, including the highly influential Obedience of the Christian Man, Tyndale’s magnum opus was his English translation of the New Testament which was published in 1526.”
• Why Members Voting on Members Is Their Most Important Job -- “When church members vote on new members, they’re deciding on those with whom they’ll share the highest authority in the church.”
• What Today’s Christian Needs to Know About Dr Kurt Aland, Textual Critic -- “Dr Kurt Aland is perhaps the most renowned Biblical textual critic of the 20th century. Born in Berlin in 1915...”
• Unshakable -- “Billy Gene “Shakey” Holder...was the country’s oldest active full-time firefighter when he hung up his boots after 56 years with the [Irving, Texas] department.”
• Twelve Reasons Why Membership Matters -- “Jesus established the local church and all the apostles did their ministry through it. The Christian life in the New Testament is church life.”
• The Last Six Verses of Revelation -- “Erasmus has sometimes been criticised for his treatment of the last six verses of Revelation.”
• The Battle of the Theological Politicians -- “It is true that every politician will put their own country before others, but that does not mean that they should do so at the expense of others.”
• Speaking the truth to power – a letter to Bishop Budde -- “Does it not make you feel a little uncomfortable that those who don’t believe in God think that your sermon was the best thing since the Communist Manifesto?”
• Presuppositional Analysis of The King James Only Controversy by James R. White -- “White’s epistemological framework leans heavily on evidentialism, which prioritizes empirical investigation and scholarly agreement as the primary means of ascertaining textual authenticity.”
• ESV Text Changes (2025) that Reflect KJV Readings -- “It has been interesting to see the once “permanent” text of the English Standard Version change over the years.”
• Comparing Creeds of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381) -- “The creed drawn up at the Council of Constantinople in AD 381 is often referred to as the “Nicene Creed” (and recited in churches under that name). Nevertheless, this is a significant revision of the creed drawn up at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325.”
• Charles Taze Russell on the Comma Johanneum -- “That the Jehovah’s Witnesses felt this way about 1 John 5:7 does not prove the verse’s authenticity, but it does prove the inaccuracy of those who suggest that omitting a single verse affects no doctrine...”
• A Cowboy’s Distinctive Trail -- “A New Yorker living in Paris after World War I captured Texas and the West in an iconic statue.”

A Bible Word List, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Bible Word List and Daily Reading Plan -- “This article includes a short list of difficult words and a Bible reading plan; using this, one can read the Bible once in two years, with the New Testament and Psalms twice.”
• Biblical Heritage Archive Collection -- “This is a premier collection of rare Bibles and artifacts that visually and physically tell the story of how we got our English Bible.”
• Civil Rights Destroys the Funeral of Tyre Nichols -- “The death of discernment didn’t begin with this tragedy. It has been a process of abandoning God in exchange for the immediate gratification believed to be found in government.”
• “Convenient” Is Not a False Friend in the KJV -- “The word convenient only occurs nine times in the KJV. In five of those cases, it means ‘commodious or favorable to one’s comfort.’”
• Migration Into East Texas, 1835-1860: A Study from the United States Census -- “Barnes F. Lathrop, Austin, TX: The Texas State Historical Association, 1949.’”
• Notes on the Pauline Subscriptions -- “These subscriptions were included in Erasmus’ Textus Receptus (1516) and then appeared in various Reformation translations, including the Geneva Bible (1560, 1599) and the King James Version (1611).”
• Nuts About Pecans -- “Here in Texas, we like to have the biggest of everything, so I wasn’t surprised to learn that we even claim the original world’s biggest pecan.”
• Our Nosy New Neighbors -- “When Alida Lorio and her husband moved to the quirky Terlingua Ranch development, they never expected they’d be living among black bears.”
• Roaring Success -- “Meet the teacher who turned an upsetting incident into a burgeoning business”
• The Masculinity Crisis -- “Neither feminization nor machismo rightly capture the biblical portrait of masculinity.”
• Subscriptions to the Epistles -- “Have you ever wondered about those explanatory notes which appear at the end of some of the Epistles?”
• The Scariest Bridge in Texas -- “The tallest ship in the Navy never did pass beneath the Rainbow Bridge. Seems a shame.”
• What’s The Truth About Martin Luther King, Jr.? -- “To the dismay of some blacks, proponents of LGBTQIA+ rights have adopted the civil rights movement as a model for their forward-moving agenda.”
• 6 Tips for Winter Safety -- “It’s no surprise that winter months bring increased fire risks and electrical safety hazards.”
• 7 Alternatives to Comic Sans (With a True ‘a’) -- “Fonts are the clothes with which we dress our words.”

Some Baptist related books and sites available online

• A Discovery of the Abominable Delusions of those, who call themselves the Family of Love. Written by those falsely called Anabaptist, n. p., 1622
• A New-Year’s-gift. Being a sermon delivered at Philadelphia, on January 1, 1770. Morgan Edwards, Philadelphia, 1770
• A True Discovery of the Ministery of the Gospell, Edward Barber, London, 1645
• Anti Paedo-Rantism; or. Mr. Samuel Finley’s Charitable Plea for the Speechless Examined and Refuted: the Baptism of Believers Maintained; and the Mode of it, by Immersion, Vindicated, Abel Morgan, Philadelphia, PA: B. Franklin, 1747
• Baptist Church Perpetuity, W. A. Jarrel, Dallas, TX: W. A. Jarrel, 1894
• Baptist History Vindicated, John T. Christian, Louisville, KY: Baptist Book Concern, 1899
• Baptist Publishing House Legacy Library, Scanned books from original copies, BMAA writers
• Brief Notes on the New Testament, G. W. Clark, J. M. Pendleton. Philadelphia, PA: American Baptist Publication Society, 1884
• Canadian Baptist History and Polity Murray J. S. Ford, editor, Hamilton, ONT: McMaster University Divinity College, 1982
• Historical Notes on the Name “Baptist” by Robert B. Hannen, in the of the Foundations Journal of the American Baptist Historical Society (January 1965, pp. 62-71)
• History of the Donatists, With Notes, David Benedict, Pawtucket, RI: Nickerson, Sibley, & Co., 1875
• Light in Darkness, Or, the Church in the World, J. S. Crellin, Oshawa, Can: Oliphant & White, 1848
• Memoirs of Eld. J. N. Hall, the Peerless Defender of the Baptist Faith, W. M. Barker, Fulton, KY: Baptist Flag Print, 1907
• The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work, Charles Octavius Boothe, Birmingham, AL: Alabama Publishing Company, 1895
• The Free Church Through the Ages, Gunnar Westin (translated by Virgil A. Olson) Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1958
• William Morris Ford, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Longview, Texas, and the Southern Baptist View of Race Relations, 1945-1971, Blanche H. Brick, East Texas Historical Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1