This Month in SEC History: July 2005
by Mike Stroud
Eighteen years ago this month, the Southeast Conference reached perhaps the pinnacle of its 39 years of being when Atlanta played host to...
A Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Southeast Conference
Written by Michael Stroud as part of the monthly historical article celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Southeast Conference.
O Creator God, who brings into...
Memories of a Southern Sojourn
From Memories of a Southern Sojourn
by Erston M. Butterfield, unpublished manuscript, October 2001
In the Spring of 1952, Dr. Thomas Tripp, Director of Town and...
Errand in the Wilderness: Congregationalism in Appalachia
Appalachia is an overlooked region of the United States, put bluntly. No one considers it even remotely glamorous, with its multitude of social and...
A Kudzu Pilgrimage: Liberal Congregationalism in the Southland
In the overall spectrum of American Christianity, Congregationalism has, for better or worse, occupied a liberal place on the theological and cultural registers. This...
German Evangelicals and Swiss Reformed Seek Zion in the Southland
The Southern U.S., for the most part, was in the 19th century most unlike much of the rest of the country in that it...
The Christians of Alabama and Georgia
The Chattahoochee River does not inspire romance in the way that the Mississippi does, nor is it heavily industrialized, as the Tennessee and Ohio...
The Congregational Methodist Church
In 1852, a group of Methodists who complained about the burdens of circuit-riding itineracy and lack of participation in the government of their church...
The American Missionary Association
Of all the 15 traditions discernibly distinct to be found in the Southeast Conference of the UCC, none may be beloved more by its...
Puritan Days
by Mike Stroud
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Southeast Conference, the following essay describes the presence of Congregationalism in antebellum times in...