August 28: Dr. Harvie M. Conn [1933-1999]
Upon request, we are re-running this post from last year. Remembering Dr. Harvie M. Conn [1933-1999] [A tribute written in 1999 by Dr. Mark R. Gornik, upon Dr. Conn’s death.…
August 27: Adoption of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647)
Westminster Confession Approved by Church of Scotland You may ask upon reading the title of this contribution, why are we thinking about adoption of the Westminster Confession of Faith, when the whole This…
August 26: William Buell Sprague [1795-1876]
Today’s post is drawn from Alfred Nevin’s Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church (1884), p. 850: The Long Pastorate of a Great Pastor and Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover,…
August 25: The Articles of Perth [1618]
Usurpers, Pretenders, and the One True King. It was an ancient issue in many respects. Who was the king of the church? Was it the king of the British Isles, or…
August 24: Joseph Huntington Jones [1797-1868]
Ashbel Green’s Editor and Friend Joseph Huntington Jones, D. D., the brother of Judge Joel Jones, was born in Coventry, Connecticut, on August 24th, 1797. He graduated at Harvard University,…