At Pearl Harbor 84 years ago on Sunday morning December 7, 1941, Capt. Thomas L. Kirkpatrick, Presbyterian, was the first chaplain of the United States military killed in World War II. Chaplain Kirkpatrick had been...
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Thomas Witherow, Presbyterian Minister in Ireland
The death in Northern Ireland of former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness in 2017 and the passing of Ian Paisley in 2014 are reminders of the troubles resulting from England’s rule of the Irish. Some in the...
Zelotes L. Holmes, 1815-1885
Zelotes Lee Holmes constructed his eight-sided home in Laurens with hand-mixed batches of concrete in 1859. The building has been restored and is currently the Octagon House Apartments. The contribution of the unique...
Was George Gallup Right?
While taking on the task of cleaning out my many files, paper ones not digital, I ran across a tanned and deteriorating clipping that I had glued in the center of a bright white sheet of typing paper and inserted in a...
Review of God’s Man from Brooklyn by Frank J. Smith
When looking back over the history of American Presbyterianism the biographies of some influential figures have been composed by their descendants. For example The Life of Archibald Alexander was edited by his eldest...
