History of Columbia Theological Seminary in Columbia, SC: its founding, campus, key leaders (Goulding, Howe), missionary efforts, and its role in Presbyterian Old School–New School debates.

Tribute to Dr. Smith and argument that disputes over social reform and church–state relations (alcohol, slavery, temperance) fueled Presbyterian splits from 1837–1973.

A defense of old-school Southern Presbyterian preaching and its God-centered, Puritan-rooted revivals as a remedy to modern secularism and cultural decline.

Analysis of the 19th-century New School vs. Old School Presbyterian split, linking the New School to transcendentalism, abolitionism, democratic philosophy, Darwinism, and Reconstruction.

Inaugural address presenting Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary as "an uncommon school for uncommon times." Affirms Scripture's authority and commitment to traditional ministerial formation amid cultural decline.