Month: May 2016

“An Election Sermon” by Simeon Howard (May 31, 1780) The Rev. Simeon Howard (1733-1804; Harvard, class of 1758) succeeded the well-known patriot-preacher, Jonathan Mayhew, as Pastor of West Church (Congregationalist)…

Does Doctrine Divide While Mission Unites? This was the sentiment when the schism of 1837 between the Old School and New School Presbyterians was  healed in the days following May 20,…

There was No Ecclesiology 101 on How to Begin a Denomination There wasn’t a manual on denomination beginnings. No teaching elder had ever taken seminary courses on it. No one…

The Bishop of All Beyond by Rev. David T. Myers Our title is most curious indeed. And yet Shelton Jackson was rightly given this nickname, to indicate that he in…

A Presbyterian Synod Stands for American Liberty by Rev. David T. Myers In the past four years of this web magazine, the authors have made use of the many manuscripts…