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Ordination of Women in the RCA
The 1957 Report of the Committee on the Ordination of Women. The Report includes: Ordination of Women in the Reformed Church; The Practice of Other…
Islay Walden
Graduating class photo
Bernita Babb
Bernita Babb is the first African-American woman ordained in the Reformed Church in America. Bernita was ordained by the Classis of Rockland-Westchester in 1988. Listen to Rev. Denise Kingdom-Grier talk about transformation:…
Women's Work
Pages from the Minutes of the General Synod, 2001, offering a brief history of women's work in the RCA. This was part of the report of Christian Education and Disipleship.
Ordination of Women in the RCA
The 1957 Report of the Committee on the Ordination of Women. The Report includes: Ordination of Women in the Reformed Church; The Practice of Other Churches in the Ordination of Women; Ordination of Women and the Old Testament; The Ordination of…
Mrs. Sturges
Women and their Boards of Missions If anyone is familiar with My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Maria and I lived a large part of that in our wedding long before it became a motion picture) there is a scene in which Toula is talking to her mother about her…
Sarah Doremus
Sarah Platt Haines Doremus: a mission minded, ecumenical leader (1802-1877) Is one person able to make a difference? Certainly! Sarah Doremus is a perfect example of that. The wife of an elder in the South Church in New York City and mother of nine…
Mr. and Mrs. Doty
Elihu Doty (1810-1864), with his wife (d. 1855), set sail to start the RCA mission on Borneo. Doty studied at Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary and left for Batavia in 1836. He served on Borneo from 1839 to 1844 and then went to…
Frank Hall Wright
Wright was born at Old Boggy Depot in Indian Territory, on January 1, 1860. He studied at Union College and Union Theological Seminary. Ordained in the Presbyterian church in 1885 he served as a missionary among the native Americans in Oklahoma from…
Rev. Jacob Brodhead
Jacob Brodhead studied at Union College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He worked with Edward Tanjore Corwin to find many early documents of the Dutch in America, including the Amsterdam Correspondence.
Rev. William Linn
Photograph from a painting in the collection of the Archives of the Collegiate Church in New York City. Linn also served as the first chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.