On a recent one-day grand tour of the Ozark hills over yonder where I grew up, I tried to explain to my friend Mark about the "camp meetings" that were held in Des Arc nearly a century ago. As we ...

Becky Bragg Taylor can remember when there was camping at the Salem Camp Meeting in Saline County and when the revival services lasted two whole weeks. Some folks pitched a tent on the grounds. The ...

COLUMBIA — A new photography exhibit detailing the cultural history of African-American camp meetings in the Carolinas will open Saturday, Aug. 9, at McKissick Museum at the University of South ...

Jul. 1—Peniel Holiness Camp Meeting, Route 18, Conneautville, begins July 20 with a concert at 7:30 p.m. introducing the Phillips and Banks southern gospel quartet. Camp continues until July 30 with ...

A 60-piece orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ”reformed Presbyterian deacon” gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon ...

After two years and more than 1,000 hours of research at the Library of Congress, Morgan County Archives, Duke University, Asbury University and in newspaper archives, Jimmy Yarbrough compiled a book ...

This year’s Pastors’ Conference, held the day before the Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, will focus on the theme of ...