In the Beginning, There Stood Two: Arkansas Roots of the Black Holiness Movement.

The article presents an exploration into the founding of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) denomination, under the leadership of Charles Harrison Mason at the turn of the 20th-century. Details are given linking the origins of the institution to the African American Pentecostal Holiness movement of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, citing its reaction against the social trends of middle-class blacks and the loss of their traditional ethnic characteristics of Christian worship. Further accounts of the denominations' growth and Mason's early leadership in the church body are included.