Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Pamela Smith Hill, Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2014, cloth, 400 pages. Immediately upon hearing the...
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Presbyterian Church in America Logo 2016
[The following article was originally posted on Presbyterians of the Past on August 17, 2015. In light of the recent discussion regarding the adoption of a logo by the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the...
Presbyterian Doctrine Briefly Stated, A. A. Hodge
The last article posted on Presbyterians of the Past was a biography of A. A. Hodge (1823-1886). This post provides a PDF of his pamphlet, Presbyterian Doctrine Briefly Stated, published by the Presbyterian Board of...
Flournoy Shepperson, 1883-1966
Flournoy was born to Joel Alexander and Lucetta Cheatham Shepperson in Columbus, Arkansas, January 10, 1883. His education included a Bachelor of Arts from Arkansas College, then he completed his ministerial studies in...
Designing Churches—Entrance Doors
The entrance doors of churches are utilitarian devices that provide privacy and security while allowing passage from the outside of the building to the inside and vice-versa. They can be made of wood, fiberglass, steel...
J. W. Alexander’s Concern for the Poor
Over the course of the three centuries of American church history there have been many controversies, practices, curiosities, divisions, and struggles. The subject of this article is a practice that was quite common in...
