United States – This Day in Presbyterian History

January 13: The Colored Presbyterian Church (1822)

Resolute in the Face of Obstacle and Opposition. The nation's first Presbyterian church, organized specifically for African Americans, was located in Philadelphia and it was organized in 1807. But it…

archivist 13 January, 2016

December 5: Schaeffer on the Founding of the PCA

On December 5, 1973, the second day of the first General Assembly was underway for the National Presbyterian Church. In fact, it was on this second day of that General…

archivist 5 December, 2015

November 10: T. Norton Sterrett [1912-1978]

"The Right Way to Hold Your Noses" Our post today is drawn from the Minutes of the 156th General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (1978), pp. 122-123, and…

archivist 10 November, 2015

November 3: Samuel M. Breckinridge

A Marked Influence in Ecclesiastical Matters by David T. Myers For the next two years, your two authors will feature a number of posts about the remarkable Breckinridge family, a…

davidtmyers 3 November, 2015

October 23: Rev. Arthur Perkins [1887-1936]

First Martyr of the Modernist Controversy So claimed Rev. Harry Rimmer. In his book Crossed Fingers, Dr. Gary North notes that on the day J. Gresham Machen died, the funeral…

archivist 23 October, 2015