Monthly Archives: December 2009

The Strategic Advantages of Not Observing Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Andrew Webb

One often hears complaints about how Christmas is becoming a time of superstition, commerce, and generally pagan revelry, but what American Christians don’t seem to realize is that this isn’t something new to our age, it’s been part and parcel … Continue reading →

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On the Origins of Easter

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Andrew Webb

I noted in a previous post that Samuel Miller, the first professor of ecclesiastical history and Church Government at Princeton, New Jersey had been asked by the Presbyterian Board of Publication to write a book on what Presbyterians believed. When … Continue reading →

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WHY DO PRESBYTERIANS OBSERVE HOLY DAYS?

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Andrew Webb

WHY DO PRESBYTERIANS OBSERVE HOLY DAYS? Dr. Samuel Miller, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government at Princeton Seminary wrote confidently in 1835 “Presbyterians do not observe Holy Days.” 1 Yet some 164 years after the book in which Miller … Continue reading →

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“What should the Church Teach Disciples to Observe?” (or why we don’t observe holy days in worship)

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Andrew Webb

In looking over the posts here at BOSC, it occurred to me that we don’t much material explaining why Old School Presbyterians like myself don’t observe Holy Days like Christmas and Easter. In the following days, I’ll try to remedy … Continue reading →

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