Jasper A Huffman 1880-1970

  • Fundamentalism and the EMCC 2

    Continuing a survey of the intersection of fundamentalism and the Missionary Church. My idea is that the early Missionary Church, at least the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, approved some of the theological aims of the fundamentalist opposition to liberal theology… Continue reading

    Fundamentalism and the EMCC 2
  • Fundamentalism and the EMCC 1

    This is my trouble–/These were my fathers/ So how am I supposed to feel?/ Way out on the rim of the broken wheel. from Bruce Cockburn, “Broken Wheel” (1981) When Presiding Elder Alvin Traub of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ… Continue reading

    Fundamentalism and the EMCC 1
  • Huffman and Biblical Archaeology

    Jasper Abraham Huffman’s book, Voices from Rocks and Dust Heaps in Bible Lands,1 was probably the first book of biblical archaeology I ever read. I was likely less than 14 when I read it, but by then I had certainly… Continue reading

    Huffman and Biblical Archaeology