First General Assembly – This Day in Presbyterian History

December 4: First General Assembly of the PCA (1973)

They Had No Manual, but a New Presbyterian Church was Born. Gathering in Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, were teaching and ruling elders ready to begin a new Presbyterian denomination. Their…

archivist 4 December, 2018

November 20: Five Days of Note

On this day, Neovember 20: 1774 — Birth of Jacob Jones Janeway, in the city of New York, the eldest child of George and Effie (Ten Eyck) Janeway. The year…

archivist 20 November, 2015

October 3: The Spirit of Presbyterianism

And so our Saturday tours through PRESBYTERIANISM FOR THE PEOPLE ended last week. Apparently that book proved popular enough that its author, the Rev. Robert P. Kerr, was encouraged to expand…

archivist 3 October, 2015

December 20: First General Assembly of Scotland (1560)

Beginnings can be Interesting Beginnings of anything can be interesting. This author once planted a mission church in a sizeable Midwest city. He had done all the preliminary preparation for the mission. Several…

davidtmyers 20 December, 2014

June 3: Attendance at Church Courts

As we are now upon the annual season when the various Presbyterian denominations typically meet in General Assembly, the following short post seems appropriate to repeat here. It is taken…

archivist 3 June, 2014