June 8 : Understanding the Covenanters

This Day in Presbyterian History:   Understanding the Covenanters The young man needed a service project for his church or community to become an Eagle Scout.  What Nathaniel Pockras of Ohio eventually chose…

May 19 : The Convocation of Sessions

This Day in Presbyterian History: There was No Ecclesiology 101 on How to Begin a Denomination There wasn't a manual on denomination beginnings. No teaching elder had ever taken seminary…

May 16 : Politics Divides the PCUSA

This Day in Presbyterian History:  A Political Issue Divides the Old School General Assembly With the Old School General Assembly meeting on May 16, 1861, the unity of the nation was…

April 30 : Presbyterian Missionaries Freed

This Day in Presbyterian History:   Misperception of Ministry Hard to Overcome Partial information and misperceptions about one's ministry are hard to overcome, especially when it involves an action which has…

April 23 : Horace Newton Allen

This Day in Presbyterian History:   The Earliest  Protestant Missionary to Korea It wasn't luck.  It wasn't chance.  It wasn't good fortune.  It was plainly providential. Sent to Korea as a…