PCA Ruling Elder Brad Isbell has edited Presbycast Pravda for about five years. His podcasts and posts cover diverse topics from a fine memorial for Queen Elizabeth II, to analysis of issues faced by the PCA, and on to...
bwaughBooklet Correction: Moses W. Triplett Identified
Please notice that at the PCA General Assembly held in Greenville in 2013 a booklet titled, “Presbyterian Church in America. A Guide to the Document, ‘A Message to All the Churches of Jesus...
Calvin the Moderate Exegete
John Calvin might be thought by some a tyrant insensitive to the views of others, especially when it comes to interpreting Scripture, but R. Scott Clark makes the case that he was receptive to interpretations of the...
The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
In 2016 a review of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Pamela Smith Hill and published by the South Dakota Historical Society was posted on Presbyterians of the Past. The...
Stuart Robinson Declines a D.D.
The Kentucky Tribune, Danville, Sep. 2, 1853, p. 2, provides a news snippet about Presbyterian of the past Stuart Robinson. “Rev. Stuart Robinson, formerly of Frankfort and now of Baltimore, has declined the...
Clowney on the Blessing in 1 Peter 1:2
Commenting on 1 Peter 1:2 , Edmund P. Clowney says of “May grace and peace be multiplied to you,” that: “What makes a greeting a blessing? Peter gives the answer in the words that precede his blessing...
Plumer on the Incarnation
For a fine chapter about the coming of the Son of God, see William Swan Plumer’s “The Incarnation of Christ” transcribed on this site as from The Rock of Our Salvation: A Treatise Respecting the...
Pilate’s Question Already Answered
Pontius Pilate asked, “What is truth,” which was a question Jesus had already answered in the High Priestly Prayer in John 17:17 saying, “Thy word is truth.” Dr. Neil Shenvi is the author of Why...