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--By Virginia Rainey

After its opening in September 1967, the faux-Colonial building at 425 Lombard Street looked like an iceberg broken free from Independence Hall four blocks up Fifth Street. The inside, pristine as it was, revealed surfaces and spaces worthy of the Old School-New School dispute.

To start with, money for construction had been tight. Department Manager Bill Miller once told me that United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA) Stated Clerk...

On April 15, 2015, the Rev. Dr. Kenneth J. Foreman died peacefully at his son's home in Black Mountain, NC. Below, Virginia F. Rainey, author of Stewards of Our Heritage: A History of the Presbyterian Historical Society, remembers Dr. Foreman's service to the Historical Foundation in Montreat, N.C., where he was director for ten years. You can read Reverend Foreman's complete obituary...