Why do I feel like she'd be Presbyterian

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“A Certain Slant of Light, Westminster Presbyterian art festival, Portage, Mi. April 30-June 15. My 2 paintings reflect a basic we seldom think about…“Without Light, There is No Color.”

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The clergyman Isaac Ambrose (baptised 1604-1664) made these remarks in his diary about the aftermath of the battle of (1648), where he was the resident preacher. These were later printed in his 'Media, the Middle Things' (1649). https://t.co/EhLURnzYGr

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The final installment of the serialized-but-short Charles Portis novel TRUE GRIT was published 63 years ago today in the Saturday Evening Post!
Here're its leads, vengeful 14-year-old Presbyterian bookkeeper Mattie Ross and mean-as-dirt tosspot deputy US marshal Rooster Cogburn.

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Presbyterian Church, Caerleon Road, Newport, Martin Ridley, https://t.co/2A0tEgED1N (Palette: 🖌🎨

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9 Sept 1636: 140 Presbyterians sail for on 'Eagle's Wing', but are driven back by storms to (BM) . They had been facing increasing pressure to conform to the Church of Ireland.

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Henry Munro, a Presbyterian draper from Lisburn courageously led 7000 ill-equipped Irishmen against the British Army at Ballynahinch (June 1798) - subsequently hanged on his own doorstep in sight of his wife - uttering these final words 'Tell my country I deserved better of it.'

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One from the archive – overlooking Sunderland's Stockton Road is St George's, a United Reformed Church. Originally a Presbyterian church, local shipbuilder Robert Appleby Bartram, was a major benefactor...

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Joe Nolan's Crawl Space column is here for all your art-crawl needs. Highlights for Saturday include a collaborative exhibit from Paul Collins at the Downtown Presbyterian Church's Browsing Room gallery, and an ambitious group show at Fort Houston. https://t.co/jYQHQzJRBX

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"Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending." Herman Melville, MOBY DICK. Illustrations by the incredible Rockwell Kent.

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Like a sentinel, Sunderland's Stockton Road United Reformed Church, originally built in the late 19th century to accommodate the growing congregation of the town's presbyterian chapel in Villiers Street...

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Gray was probably Charles foremost American champion. A devout Presbyterian, G struggled valiantly to reconcile natural selection with his faith. The 2 had a 25-year correspondence on the question. Although D did not share G’s faith, he deeply appreciated G’s struggles https://t.co/pIE9WDi5Si

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Gray was probably Charles foremost American champion. A devout Presbyterian, G struggled valiantly to reconcile natural selection with his faith. The 2 had a 25-year correspondence on the question. Although D did not share G’s faith, he deeply appreciated G’s struggles

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'The Ladies Diary or The Woman's Almanack' is an interesting artifact to explore life in the year 1740 - but this one is extra special. It was used 20 years later by the Presbyterian church in Mansfield's Old Meeting House to record baptisms. (RG 4/2486)

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Wife of Bungaree, Queen Cora Gooseberry, died in 1853. She was buried in the Presbyterian section of the Devonshire Street Cemetery (now Central Station), and was later moved to the Botany Pioneer Park in 1901.

Read more: https://t.co/3EMQ9frJMI

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On June 26, 2019, the Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project posted bond to free a 50th Iowa immigrant from immigration detention.

Many thanks to First Presbyterian Church of Iowa City for sponsoring our 50th bond.

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1798: Execution in Co of Henry Munro, U.I. leader & Presbyterian linen merchant. Tried by court-martial & hanged in front of his home, in front of wife & sisters. "behaved with marvellous coolness to the last" & settled a money account https://t.co/uVAVE4agdW

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