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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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

A program prepared by Laurie Mol for the Reformed Church Women in 1973.

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…

A pamphlet written by Dorothy Burt in 1975 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions and the 15th Anniversary of the National Department of Women's Work. Dorothy retired in 1970 after 33 years with the RCA's…

A Long Time Coming, was written by Ed Mulder while general secretary of the RCA. It was published in the Reformed Review, Spring 1989, Vol. 42, No. 3. This pdf is from an early version of the RCA's web page: www.rca.org.