Watch Tower History

Walsh is credited with introducing the non-resurrection of the wicked dead doctrine to Storrs. Within the documentation we have (original, n...

Teachings of "millenial dawn" shown to be unscriptural : being a brief review of doctrines found in their own published works Auth...

Life and Advent Union             In 1863 Storrs and his associates formed the Life and Advent Union to promote the teaching that the wicke...

Note the Age to Come phrasing.

We sent a partially completed chapter off to Jan Stilson, a historian who writes about Arbrahamic Faith issues. The Abrahamic Faith congrega...

Jerome has written a well-researched article on the interplay between Adventists, Age to Come belief and Russell's place in the Age to C...

I've posted the first section of Chapter 2 of our work in progress. It defines the broad influences on Russell's theology, pointing ...

Walsh and Storrs associated for a period in the 1840s and 50s. A biography of Walsh is found here: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17021

Do we know the name of Rose Ball's father?

Some of your questions may be answered by the new post on the private blog.

by "Jerome" (Note: The article below was first published on the closed blog in June of last year. Since there has been some recent...

That most of those who read this blog pronounce B. W. Keith's last name as Keeth. It's a German name. It's pronounced Kyte, K ey...

It's signed E.B. It's probably from about 1920. E. W. Brenneisen often signed correspondence using his initials E.B. This is a su...

I've posted a near final draft of Chapter One of our next book. It details the Russells' lives from immigration to 1870 with some sp...

What poof is there that Wendell advocated world burning? Yes, yes, we all know I can't spell or type. ....

This is an extract from a letter to the editor published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1844. We need to locate the original. Can you help? ...

by Jerome (slightly abridged from an article on blog 2) Before the title gives false hope, I must start by saying that this article is a sto...

1. Russell was never an Adventist. He did not believe, accept or see as meritorious, Adventist teaching. 2. When Russell met him, Storrs h...

Put optimistically, we’re about half to two-thirds done. I think our new research will present many surprises. Want a taste? Here is a very,...

A recent Watchtower article mentions the problems Russell had getting The Plan of the Ages into bookstores, retelling the story of his inter...

Dear Bruce, From reading the first chapter of the "Pittsburgh tour" book, I noticed that he didn't know whether father or son ...

We don't accept invitations to pod casts, internet talk shows, youtube subscriptions, or any similar thing. Don't invite us. It'...

On our private blog we’ve posted bits in rough draft of what will be chapter one of our next book. We’re not posting it here, but I will tel...

(Photo taken from Google Images from an old Victor record catalog) by "Jerome" Harry E Humphrey was the main voice of the Photodra...

Russell's theology did not derive from the Millerite movement. He was introduced to Literalist prophetic interpretation by his congregat...

by "Jerome" We've been getting many visits to this post in the last 2 months. This is curious. Please explain your interes...