Having passed the annual event known as “spring break” in the world of education, the challenges on the academic calendar that will soon come to pass require burning the midnight oil, but more likely in this day is...
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Stuart Robinson, 1814-1881
Is it a scowl of anger or grimace of pain that is on the face of Stuart Robinson? His appearance may very well be due to pain. When he was an infant his nurse was tossing him in the air, as adults sometimes do, and...
T. V. Moore’s Poetry
Some of the written works of ministers and theologians over the years have included poems and hymns. The nature of verse challenged them to increase their understanding of the complexities and beauties of the English...
Designing Churches—Steeples
The header image is a drawing of Savannah, Georgia, circa 1870, which was composed by its artist while viewing the city to the south from Hutchinson Island. On the left of the sketch almost in line with the mast near...
“B” Is for Breckinridge
During the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century there was likely not an issue of a western Presbyterian periodical that did not have at least one mention of the name, “Breckinridge.” The August 10, 1865...
Reformation Day, B. B. Warfield on Luther’s Theses
In this post some information about resources for study of the Reformation will be provided; a short definition of indulgences will be given; sacerdotal will be defined; some comments will be made about “The...