Category: Conference Historian
Jonathan Edwards on Revival (Part 2)
March 10, 2022
Alwyn York, CCCC Historian The opening weeks of 1735 in the village of Northampton, Massachusetts were an extraordinary time. Pastor Jonathan Edwards wrote, “A great and earnest concern about the great things of religion, and the eternal world, became universal in all parts of the town and among persons of all degrees and all ages. […]
Jonathan Edwards on Revival
January 4, 2022
Alwyn York, CCCC Historian Jonathan Edwards is a towering figure in the history of American Congregationalism. He is remembered as a legendary preacher, a chronicler and defender of religious revivals, and a profound theologian. He was a voluminous writer, which can make the prospect of reading his works intimidating. Yale University Press has published the […]
Book Review: Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth
October 25, 2021
ALWYN YORK, CONFERENCE HISTORIAN Throughout 2020 I reviewed a number of books on the Mayflower Pilgrims in observance of the 400th anniversary of their arrival in America. I intended that this series would end as 2020 ended. I feel that I need to break that resolution. In June of this year I became aware of […]
CCCC Theological Resources
June 17, 2021
Alwyn York, CCCC Historian Membership in the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference requires full agreement with the CCCC Statement of Faith and its Statement of Polity (church government). Both are simple and concise by design. They are meant to be expressions of basic principles. The Conference came into existence when basic beliefs of biblical Christianity and […]