December 31: A Farewell, and On to the New Year
A Message to our Faithful Subscribers: Three years ago, I pitched the idea to Wayne Sparkman, archivist of the PCA History Center, about a day by day Presbyterian web site…
September 20: Dr. Archibald Alexander
He Seemed But a Little Boy It was only a year before that Archibald Alexander had been taken under care of the Presbytery of Lexington, Virginia. He was young and…
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…
April 22: Rev. Jonathan Dickinson
God Prepares a Man for the Times Jonathan Dickinson shares a lot of credit in the shaping of the early Presbyterian Church in the American colonies. Born on April 22, 1688 in…
September 20: Licensure of Archibald Alexander
All of life is cumulative. Great men do not arrive on the scene in full measure. Rather, every step along the way builds to the later result. The following account…