In 1728 Alexander and Jane Preston arrived in the port of Philadelphia, then a decade later settled in the Shenandoah Valley in the region that became Staunton, Virginia. Farming was hard work but it was the way of life...
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Henry A. Boardman, August Pastor & Churchman
Henry Augustus was born January 9, 1808 to John and Clarinda (Starbuck) Boardman at Troy on the Hudson River in New York. His mother had grown up a Quaker but when she married John she became a Presbyterian. John had...
Robert Means, 1796-1836
While wandering inside a used book store several years ago I ran across an interesting book about a lesser-known Presbyterian of the past. It was a moment when I thought that the foxed and rubbed volume slid between a...
A. A. Hodge on the Intermediate State
During the latter half of the nineteenth century many immigrants entering the United States from Europe were Roman Catholics. Included with Catholicism’s doctrines of seven sacraments, the Mass, and...
Did Jesus Marry Mary Magdalene?
I was taken by surprise when asked by someone if Jesus married Mary Magdalene. I had not heard the theory recently but knew the answer was no. Some quick Internet searches showed the theory was the subject of recent...
Paul Settle, “Yeah, hath God said?”
It started in the Garden of Eden. The serpent was craftier than all the other creatures and he used his skills when he asked Eve in Genesis 3:1, “Yeah, hath God said?” When God presented our first parents with the law...
