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...
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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...
Review, Our Southern Zion: Old Columbia Seminary, David B. Calhoun
David B. Calhoun, Our Southern Zion: Old Columbia Seminary, 1828-1927, Banner of Truth, 2012, 380 pages, cloth, illustrated, and index. The city of Columbia was created the capital of South Carolina by the state...
Review, John Calvin & the Printed Book, Jean-François Gilmont, translated Karin Maag
A review of, Jean-François Gilmont, translated by Karin Maag, John Calvin and the Printed Book, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 72, Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2005, paperback, 331 pages including...