Presbyterians and 1776

What a joy it was for me and hopefully for you to walk through our illustrious, sometimes rascally, but important history here, as we look at Presbyterians in 1776. Last week I entitled the first lecture “The Mad Men and Ministers of Mecklenburg County.” This second lecture, second of two, entitled “Declaring Independence from Great…

As I mentioned to a friend of mine who’s a Presbyterian pastor in Florida in a different denomination, I told him I was doing two weeks of a Sunday school class, combined Sunday school class, on Presbyterians in 1776. His response was, “Wow, what a special church. Not many churches that would come out for…