May 15: Fran Schaeffer’s First Testimony?
A Tale of An Unusual Providence It was on this date, May 15th, in 1984 that Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer died. We have previously written of his death, and separately…
April 17: Historic Property Cases
With sincere apologies, I must record a correction. The fact is that the local court case was ruled unanimously in favor of the Hull Memorial and Eastern Heights churches. My…
March 7: Leroy Tate Newland
LeRoy Tate Newland was born in Galva, Iowa on 7 March 1885 to James Tate Newland and his wife, Fanny Rosalia Maria (Miller) Newland. He was educated at Davidson College,…
February 27: Lewis Sperry Chafer [1871-1952]
Yep. Lewis Sperry Chafer, the founder of Dallas Theological Seminary, was a Presbyterian. As was Chafer’s mentor, C. I. (Cyrus Ingerson) Scofield, and as was Scofield’s mentor, James H. Brookes.…
February 13: Warrior Presbytery Established (1972)
Warrior Presbytery Leaves the Southern Presbyterian Church [text from an article in The Southern Presbyterian, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1973): Twenty-one churches and five ministers were dismissed, at their…