Arthur Miskin
- Please tell me who Clinton Allen is. There is no biographical material available as far as I can see.
- Check out this link. Clifton Judson Allen papers offer inside look at SBC | Baptist Press
- Clifton Judson Allen was born November 7, 1901 in a small farming community in Latta, DillonCounty, South Carolina. He was the last of seven children of William Benjamin Allen, a farmer, and Theodisia (Cox) Allen, a housewife. He attended local grammar schools and graduated from Oalcho High School in 1919. He graduated from Furman University with a B.A. degree in 1923, from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with the Th.M. degree in 1928, followed by the Ph.D. degree in 1932. Allen was converted and baptized at the Catfish Creek Baptist Church in the Pee Dee Association and ordained by them in 1926. From 1923 – 1926, he was principal of Minturn High School in his hometown of Latta, South Carolina, and from 1928 – 1931, he was a tutor in the department of Greek New Testament at the seminary. From 1926 – 1937, he was pastor of the McHenry Baptist Church, McHenry, Kentucky; Utica Baptist Church, Utica, Kentucky; First Baptist Church Fairmont, North Carolina; and the Western Avenue Baptist Church, Statesville, North Carolina. In mid 1937, Allen accepted a position as associate editorial secretary at the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee, where he served for 31 years until his retirement in 1968. Here he made the most significant contribution of his career to the cause of Sunday Schools and religious education. The Editorial Department, as it was called then, was responsible for preparing a style manual, which dictated the editorial style of all Board publications; securing copyrights on the Board's printed materials and giving permission for their republication and use in other publications; and serving as editor for special projects like encyclopedias and commentaries and interpreting the Board's ministry of Bible teaching and Christian education. In 1945, he was elected editorial secretary, following in the footsteps of Hight C Moore and W. R. White, both able denominational statesmen. In these years, his ministry expanded to include a weekly radio program on WSM, teaching the Sunday School lesson, and writing and editing, for more than 20 years, Points for Emphasis. In the final ten years with the Board, he made several trips abroad, visiting sixteen countries with Southern Baptist career missionaries and others, speaking, teaching and promoting the cause of Sunday Schools and religious education. He also found time to represent the Board on the Uniform Lessons Series committee, Commission on Teaching, and Baptist World Alliance, as well as serving the Southern Baptist Convention as recording secretary. Allen wrote several books and contributed scores of articles to Baptist and other periodicals. Among those contributions was his service as the General Editor of the Broadman Bible Commentary Series. After his retirement from the Baptist Sunday School Board, Allen returned to live in Winston – Salem, North Carolina and serve as adjunct professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1981, his beloved wife, Hattie Bell (McCracken) Allen, died. In 1982, he married Mrs. Rosiland Sheppard Street, widow of a successful pastor. In 1985, he witnessed the declining health and death of his first - born son and namesake, Judson Boyce Allen. Clifton J. Allen died of cancer in Winston - Salem, North Carolina on May 5, 1986 at the age of 84. He was survived by his second wife, a daughter and son, and seven grandchildren. His funeral was conducted at First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee where he held membership for forty years. Burial was in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Nashville.
- Far too expensive and the updates just keep on rolling. How is the average pastor in a small congregation supposed to afford this? African pastors? As soon as the one package has been fully paid or almost fully paid, the newest upgrades arrive. I really question the ethics of this approach. See some of the comments below - "I'm almost fully paid up and now there's a new package available,. What now?" It really seems to me as though you keep your customers hooked the whole time and in the process fuelling covetousness.
- Often what makes a Logos upgrade out of reach is the resources that accompany an upgrade. With the release of Logos 7, Faithlife has taken another approach. You can now get the Full Feature Set which update the main program with the new datasets, or you can get a Logos Now subscription which does the same and also has additional advantages.
