June 22: Rev. Josias Mackie

A Strange Name Merits our Attention He was a tent-maker church planter in the latter part of the sixteen hundreds in what is now Virginia.  Born in Ireland, this unmarried  Presbyterian…

June 18: Elizabeth Clephane [1830-1869]

The Sunbeam This author was worshiping recently at the Army War College Memorial Protestant Chapel when the Army chaplain announced that we were going to sing "Beneath the Cross of…

June 17: Bingham Finley Junkin

A Presbyterian Soldier In Service to  His Country In these posts on Presbyterian History, Wayne Sparkman and I have written several posts on the remarkable Junkin family of Cumberland County,…

June 15: Boardman and Boice

Boardman and Boice – Two Teaching Elders of Tenth Presbyterian They were one hundred and twenty years apart in the pulpit and pastoral ministry of the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church…