Jeffrey S. McDonald’s John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America, 2017, is an informative biography of a seminary professor serving in an era of crucial events in...
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William L. Breckinridge, 1803-1876
William Lewis was born near Lexington, Kentucky, July 22, 1803, the eighth child of John and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Breckinridge. He and his brothers Joseph Cabell, John, and Robert Jefferson were joined by a brother...
The Carpenter and the Cross
Why was Jesus born the son of a carpenter, to work as a carpenter (Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3)? Some would respond that before the Son of God entered his public ministry he needed to work, and carpentry provided a living as good...
John M. Krebs, German-American Presbyterian
Hagerstown was established by an immigrant named Jonathan Hager from Westphalia in the northwest part of Germany, but before 1814 the village had been named Elizabethtowne for his wife. The property occupied by the...
Leighton Wilson’s Find & Evolution
John Leighton Wilson (1809-1886) was born, raised, and schooled in Sumter County, South Carolina, then completed his formal education at Union College, Schenectady, before studying for the ministry in the first...
Duty of Sustaining an Educated Ministry, James Richards
The “Duty of Sustaining an Educated Ministry,” was delivered by James Richards, May 12, 1819, in Cedar Street Presbyterian Church, New York. It has been transcribed from Sermons of the Late Rev. James...