April 1: The United Synod of the South [1857-1863]
The Brief Life of a Denomination You Probably Never Heard Of. It was on this day, April 1, in 1858, that the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the…
November 2: Communion in the Courts
Today we digress a bit. The following is offered without any comment on whether the practice is right or wrong. It is simply an exploration of how the practice came to be,…
October 22: William Swan Plumer
An Old School Presbyterian Ministers in both North and South William Swan Plumer was not a name which I had recognized until someone gave me a commentary written by him. It…
June 5: Old School/New School Division of the PCUSA
The Mother of All Schisms in Presbyterianism Old School Presbyterians . . . New School Presbyterians. You were either one or the other in the early to mid-nineteenth century in…
May 20: Old School/New School Reunion
Does Doctrine Divide While Mission Unites? This was the sentiment when the schism of 1837 between the Old School and New School Presbyterians was healed in the days following May 20,…