Church History Matters

Reformed Books Online resources page on "Administration of the Lord's Supper" -- http://tinyurl.com/adminlordssupper American Methodist Worship by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (Oxford University Press 2001) can be borrowed for free with an Internet Archive account -- https://archive.org/details/americanmethodis0000west/page/152/mode/2up?view=theater The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism by Jennifer L. Woodruff Taft (University of Alabama Press, 2011) can be borrowed for free with an Internet Archive account -- https://archive.org/details/poisonedchalicee0000tait/page/108/mode/2up?view=theater “The Progress Of The Individual Cup Movement, Especially Among Churches” Presented in the Section on State Medicine, at the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Philadelphia, June 1-4, 1897. BY HOWARD S. ANDERS, A.M., M.D. -- http://tinyurl.com/2p9zayy3 A Covenant Feast: Reflections on the Lord’s Table by J. Ryan Davidson -- https://www.amazon.com/Covenant-Feast-Reflections-Lords-Table/dp/0997358947

CORRECTION: Joseph misstated the traditional date of the martyrdom of Saint Valentine; it was February 14 in A.D. 269. Show notes/sources: From the Protestant Reformation to the Southern Baptist Convention: What Hath Geneva To Do With Nashville? by Thomas K. Ascol (Founders Press) “...To Set Them in Order;” Some Influences of the Philadelphia Baptist Association Upon Baptists of America to 1814 by James L. Clark (Particular Baptist Press) New Hampshire Confession of Faith, Baptist Studies Online http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/the-new-hampshire-confession-of-faith.pdf Article on the hymn singing controversy https://founders.org/articles/the-first-worship-war-among-baptists-and-the-reformation-of-congregational-singing/ Article on the New Hampshire Confession: https://founders.org/articles/the-new-hampshire-confession/ The Baptist Heritage Four Centuries of Baptist Witness by H. Leon McBeth by H. Leon McBeth

Religion News Association Top Ten Stories of 2023 (link: https://shorturl.at/qGOUX) The official statement of the UMC on the issue of marriage can be found here: https://www.umc.org/en/content/social-principles-the-nurturing-community GAFCON issues the “Kigali Commitment” or the “Kigali communiqué.” Link here: https://shorturl.at/efixV

Whether you know him as a children's author or a Christian apologist, there's no doubt that C. S. Lewis was one of the best-known Christians of the 20th century.

A much-requested topic: what led up to the split between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches?