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Slightly Random Reflections on “Covenanters at the Hub of the Universe”

Posted on 2011/10/27 by TFish

Church history is often messier than we might wish.  In the course of uncovering the past, we sometimes turn up details that we’d prefer not to have found. Yet we have precedents for remembering imperfect stories.  The Holy Spirit speaking … Continue reading →

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Covenanters At the Hub of the Universe, Part 3

Posted on 2011/10/26 by TFish

EVENTS LEADING TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CAMBRIDGE CONGREGATION At the 1894 Spring meeting of the New York Presbytery, a petition from some members of the First Boston R.P. Church and First United Presbyterian Church of Cambridge was presented requesting … Continue reading →

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Covenanters At the Hub of the Universe, Part 2

Posted on 2011/09/22 by TFish

[Part 1 of this series may be read at https://reformedruminations.com/2011/09/19/covenanters-at-the-hub-of-the-universe-part-1/] FIRST BOSTON BUILDS ITS OWN WORSHIP HALL After such a bitter and protracted schism, the First Boston congregation apparently felt a strong resolve to move ahead. Several years earlier, the officers … Continue reading →

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Covenanters At the Hub of the Universe, Part 1

Posted on 2011/09/19 by TFish

In 1995, in anticipation of our congregation’s 100th anniversary, I set out to do what I thought would be a small research project on the congregation’s beginnings. It soon became evident that I couldn’t properly understand the founding of our … Continue reading →

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