Who Am I

I am a licensed preacher in the Bible Presbyterian Church, serving as Interim Preacher at Living Hope Presbyterian Church (BPC) in the Greenville, South Carolina area. I hold the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (May 2025). My confession is the Westminster Standards written in the 1640s. My theological commitments are Old-Side, Old-School, and confessionally Reformed Presbyterianism, which is to say, I hold what the church held before the innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries stripped her of her backbone.

I was raised in the Appalachian mountains of Western Pennsylvania, of Scottish Highland descent, in a family whose roots in this country run to the mid-seventeenth century. That heritage is not incidental to who I am. It shaped how I read the Word, how I think about the land, how I understand a man’s duty to his household and his God. I hold no brief for the progressive dismantling of Christendom, whether that dismantling comes from the secular left, the evangelical center, or the confessionally indifferent right.

My wife Alanda and I are raising three sons. We homeschool classically, tend a kitchen garden, and work toward the kind of household self-sufficiency that our great-grandfathers understood as basic human dignity. The farm, the study, and the pulpit are not three separate worlds. They are one life under one Lord.

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What This Blog Is

The right application of Holy Scripture to every domain of life

The church has largely abandoned the field. She has ceded the household, the school, the land, and the civil order to men with no fear of God. This blog is a modest attempt to reclaim some of that ground, not by novelty, but by recovering what was once known. The old theologians thought clearly, wrote plainly, and were not embarrassed to draw conclusions. Neither shall I be.

The frame here is historical, old-world Presbyterian. John Calvin. John Knox. Samuel Rutherford. George Gillespie. Robert L. Dabney. James Henley Thornwell. These are men who understood that the Word of God governs all of life, that the confession is a summary of that Word, and that a minister’s duty is to preach and apply it without apology.

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The Word of God is the supreme rule for the church, the household, and the Christian man. Among the nations, natural law written on the conscience of every creature made in God’s image governs the civil and moral order. This blog applies both, in their proper spheres, to the whole of life. There is no domain where God has left men without a witness.

Soli Deo Gloria

Joshua Morrison, B.Div. | Licensed Preacher, Bible Presbyterian Church