Firm Foundation

The Firm Foundation was a religious periodical published monthly in Houston, Texas, for members of the Churches of Christ.

[1]: 337  The Firm Foundation was, for the next hundred years, one of the two most influential publications among the Churches of Christ along with the Gospel Advocate.

[4]: 61  Lipscomb and others among the Churches of Christ in Middle Tennessee routinely accepted Baptist converts without requiring them to be rebaptized.

[1]: 337  Showalter and Lemmons maintained an editorial policy consistent with the mainstream of Churches of Christ, and during that period many wrote for and supported both the Firm Foundation and the Gospel Advocate.

[1]: 337  The editorial policy changed significantly under the leadership of Dobbs, supporting a "strongly conservative constituency" and "targeting progressives and 'change agents,' especially in educational institutions and highly visible congregations of Churches of Christ.

Front Page of the Last Issue of the Firm Foundation (vol. 125, no. 1, January 2010).
Close-up of the front page from the last issue of the Firm Foundation (vol. 125, no. 1, January 2010)