Part 5: A New Beginning Editorial Note: As the late Dr. L.C. Johnson prepared to step down from his long tenure as president of Welch College…

Part 4: Laying a Firm Foundation Editorial Note: As the late Dr. L.C. Johnson prepared to step down from his long tenure as president of Welch…

Part 3: The War Years Editorial Note: As the late Dr. L.C. Johnson prepared to step down from his long tenure as president of Welch College…

Part 2: Road to the Beginning Editorial Note: As the late Dr. L.C. Johnson prepared to step down from his long tenure as president of Welch…

Part 1: Pre-Bible College Days Editorial Note: As the late Dr. L.C. Johnson prepared to step down from his long tenure as president of Welch College…

In the closing decade of the nineteenth century, two young brothers rose to positions of leadership among the Free Will Baptists in North Carolina. T.F. and…

“You are a fool and you will starve to death,” objected family members when Martin Luther (M.L.) Hollis (above, left) told his folks he had quit…

What really happened when the northern Free Will Baptists merged with the Northern Baptist Convention in 1911? And, can we prevent it from happening again? In…

According to historian Gary Barefoot, the short-lived Free Will Baptist Courier came about as an effort of Tennessee’s Cumberland Association. Page six of the 1939 Cumberland Association minutes…

By David A. Joslin Rev. Samuel Dwight Bates, D.D. was born at Vernon Center, New York, October 13, 1828. He moved to Haford, Ohio, when he…