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 and Ozark Christian College for over a quarter of a century and continues to teach at churches 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. Dr. Cherok is also the founder and Executive Director of Celtic Christian Mission, an organization dedicated to evangelism in Ireland. He has also led hundreds of people on short-term mission trips to various locations around the world. Dr. Cherok’s favorite pastimes include reading, travel, watching baseball, and hanging out with his beloved Border Collie, Aidan.
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 since branched into a vast spectrum of liberal to conservative streams. In an era of historical apathy and illiteracy, what can those of us with […]
