Dr. Rick Cherok completed a PhD in United States Religious History from the Kent State University. He has taught Restoration History, Christian History, and other areas of history at Cincinnati Christian University, Ozark Christian College, and Kentucky Christian University for over a quarter of a century and continues to teach at churches, conferences, and in online classes. In addition to contributing numerous essays and articles to a variety of publications, Dr. Cherok has published a book titled Debating for God: Alexander Campbell’s Challenge to Skepticism in Antebellum America. Dr. Cherok has served in editorial positions with the Stone-Campbell Journal, Discipliana, the College Press Publishing Company, and is currently the Managing Editor of the Christian Standard. As the founder and Executive Director of Celtic Christian Mission, an organization dedicated to evangelism in Ireland, Dr. Cherok has led hundreds of people on short-term mission trips to Ireland, and hundreds more on additional mission trips to other locations around the world. Dr. Cherok’s favorite pastimes include reading, writing, travel, and watching baseball.
The Restoration Movement spread throughout the American frontier in the early nineteenth century out of the Second Great Awakening. Its leaders emphasized Christian unity based in the Scriptures, although it has […]
