June 24: John Lycan Kirkpatrick
John Lycan Kirkpatrick was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on January 20, 1813. Alfred Nevin notes that his parents were pious Presbyterians, members of Providence Church, and that John…
May 22: The Plan of Union Abrogated [1837]
As settlers moved ever westward in North America, the problem of planting churches in these new regions forced questions of Christian unity and cooperation. So it was that in 1801…
May 19: Basis of the PCA’s Book of Church Order
One of the most significant signs of promise for the BCO in the 1870s was that it lost its original association in PCUS opinion with centralization.. Few commented on the localist tendency of the…
May 5: Rev. Gage vs. the Auburn Affirmation
By the 1940s, efforts by modernists were well underway to effect a union between the PCUSA and the PCUS. As conservatives in the PCUS (aka Southern Presbyterian Church) began to…
February 19: Cumberland/PCUSA Union (1904)
A Union based on Compromise of Doctrine The early twentieth century in the northern Presbyterian church was increasingly one of a battle over the Bible. Charles Briggs, of Union Theological…
