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A Potpourri of Web Sites
www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/
If you have any interest in the history of the Restoration Movement, you need to check out a very fine Web site provided by Dr. Hans Rollman at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. This site is a virtual library of material related to the movement that gave birth to the Christian churches and churches of Christ. This site has a particularly global vision of the movement.
It is difficult to describe all the documents and resources you will find here—all free of charge. There are literally hundreds of books and pamphlets related to Barton Stone, Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, and Walter Scott. There are also books related to other lesser-known Restoration Movement luminaries.
You will find biographies, histories, Bible studies, classic sermons, pictures of people and places, histories of the movement in countries around the globe, and even a large section of articles concerning how other groups and writers view the Restoration Movement.
This site represents all branches of the movement, so there are some items that will interest you more than others. Rollman has done a great service by providing such a great repository of information in one location. You could spend days just browsing this treasure trove. We lean towards the future, live in the present, and learn from the past. This site makes such learning possible and pleasurable.
www.cartalk.com
This next site might seem a ridiculous suggestion to some, but I offer it anyway. It is the Car Talk Web site. This is the Web site that features material related to Tom and Ray Magliozzi (Click and Clack) of the well-known public radio program Car Talk.
You can find real advice and information on cars, but that’s not why I mention it here. Those who have listened to this show know that it is about a lot more than cars. There is an archive on the site of lame jokes and humorous pieces read on the air on a wide variety of subjects. There is also a collection of mind-expanding puzzlers that stimulate your reasoning power and give you a laugh as well.
www.barneyfife.com
Finally—one last offbeat suggestion. This site is a tribute to the character Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show, but is much more than that. This site was inspired by the Sunday school class developed by Joey Fann for the Twickenham Church of Christ in Huntsville, Alabama. Here you can find lesson plans for classes based on episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, along with articles about the spiritual and family values in the program.
The variety of work we have to do as Christian leaders allows us to take advantage of a variety of resources. Everything is grist for our mill.
Mike Shannon is dean at Cincinnati (Ohio) Bible Seminary.
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