During the course of your web-surfing or reading about Presbyterian history you may have run across the terms, “Old School” and “New School,” or their abbreviations, “OS” and “NS.” Before getting to the purpose of this...
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Reformation Day 2015, Henry VIII’s Divorce
On Reformation Day, the posting of Martin Luther’s theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg is remembered as the event that launched the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s initial intention was to reform...
Augustine’s Quest for Rest in His Confessions
On October 31, 2015, the four-hundred-ninety-eighth anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his ninety-five theses on the Wittenberg Castle Church door in Germany will be remembered. The...
Designing Churches—Seating
According to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, “pew” was defined as “an enclosed seat in a church” that had been in the past “made square” by boxing them in with panels and providing a door...
Designing Churches, Lighting
In the colonial days of America congregations sometimes met outdoors for services because they did not have a building for worship. A group interested in having a church in their settlement gathered in the shade of a...
John Witherspoon, 1723-1794
In a historical tour of Princeton, New Jersey, Nassau Hall on the university campus is on the must-see list. It is a grand but simple building, surrounded by trees, and its lovely presence reminds visitors of the...
