Northern Ireland – This Day in Presbyterian History

June 21: Ten Reasons for Being a Presbyterian (#’s 1 & 2)

The season of General Assemblies and Synods is upon us, June being the month when most of the American Presbyterian denominations convene in their national meetings—and so this seemed a good time…

archivist 21 June, 2016

June 20: Rev. James Martin

The Strange Testimony of an Irish Presbyterian by Rev. David T Myers When my fellow editor, Wayne Sparkman, asked me to present this biographical post of a character from the…

archivist 20 June, 2016

April 2: The First to Suffer in the Three Kingdoms

"Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy" The day is lost to history, even church history. Not one book has it listed down. But we know the month and the year. It was…

archivist 2 April, 2015

July 10: Rev. Robert Blair

A Sweet Majestic Man Showed me the Majesty of God Our title was a description of the preaching of the Rev. Robert Blair at St. Andrews in Scotland by an…

davidtmyers 10 July, 2014

June 23: The Pioneer of Irish Presbyterianism

Josiah Welsh had cried out at the moment he entered glory, "O victory, victory, forevermore," on June 23, 1634. He was only thirty-six years of age. But what he had…

davidtmyers 23 June, 2014