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Claypool sitting at desk, b/w photo c.1970s
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Claypool speaking at unidentified event, b/w photo Claypool speaking, c.1970s.
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Claypool speaking at unidentified event, b/w photo
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Claypool speaking at unidentified event, b/w photo
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John and Ann Claypool with grandchildren, color photo With grandchildren, 1999.
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John and Ann Claypool standing next to tree, color photo John and Ann, c.1986.
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Claypool pointing, standing with McAfee students, color candid photo Claypool with students of Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology, c.2004.
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Claypool smiling, candid photo in color- handwriting on the border "Dr. John Claypool We love you! McAfee" Claypool said, “I am not a scholar, but I love ideas and study. And I really do love people.” His willingness to share the lessons he had learned through life experience translated into a teacher who connected with his students.
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John and Ann portrait, color photo In 1982 Claypool married Ann Wilkinson Scheyd, a notable social worker and therapist. They remained together until John's passing. “I think we are such kindred spirits,...John is the most deeply spiritual, loving man I have ever known.” 1995.
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Dialogue Newsletter While at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Claypool took a seminary professor’s advice, and for the first time in his fifty years of ministry, used the medium of the printed word to “bless, inform and inspire” through the parish’s weekly newsletter, Dialogue.
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Episcopalian Article The Episcopalian, 1986. Claypool describes "tolerance, diversity and a lively intellectual life" as qualities of the Episcopal Church that he found appealing.
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professional portrait of Claypool, color photo “My religious pilgrimage is as old as my conscious memory. ...the desire to seek ordination in the Ministry of the Episcopal Church is simply the latest aspect of the unfolding of my life with God.”
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Spirituality and Loss: Religious Influences Brochure for a workshop titled "Spirituality and Loss: Religious Influences", which Claypool led. The workshop explored "the need to enrich and enlarge one's understandings of the dynamics of grief," 1998.
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image of Claypool with family, Crescent Hill service leaflet Claypool's daughter Laura Lue, pictured here in 1960 at eleven months old, died of leukemia in 1970 at the age of ten.
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Claypool accepting a gavel as newly elected commission of the Southern Baptist Life Commission, b/w photo Claypool attending the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission’s annual meeting where he was elected chairman, 1978.
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Claypool on the radio, b/w photo Claypool on the radio. Claypool participated in a weekly Louisville radio program called “The Moral Side of the News,” which expanded his audience beyond the pulpit, 1964.
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Claypool preaching at Crescent Hill, b/w photo Claypool preaching at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, KY, c.1960s.
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James L. Sullivan Letter After the eighteen-year old Claypool came forward at church, his pastor James L. Sullivan wrote, “Thank God for men of your sort who will dare step into the front – a place which is sometimes lonely and often requires daring, but a place which someone must fill if the world is to move forward,” 1948.
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Baylor Debate Flyer During his time at Baylor, Claypool honed his speaking skills by participating in debate tournaments. Claypool’s Baylor team won second place in the 1952 National Tournament.
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Claypool high school yearbook photo Claypool poses for the Hillsboro High School yearbook as Junior Officer, 1947.
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Claypool preaching at podium, unidentified event, b/w photo
