18/03/2025
PHSI Lecture - Thursday 20 March 2025
"History of the Ordination of Women to Eldership and Ministry"
- the story of how women became eligible for Eldership in 1926
and for Ministry in 1973 and how this has worked out in practice
by Mrs Avril Heenan
on Thursday, 20th March 2025 at 8.00 p.m.
in Carryduff Presbyterian Church
29 Church Road, Carryduff BT8 8DT
Everyone Welcome Refreshments provided
PHSI Members please note:
The Lecture will be preceded at 7.00 pm
by the Society's Annual General Meeting.
11/02/2025
Andrew Melville - PHSI Lecture - 20 February 2025
"Andrew Melville and his Contribution to Presbyterianism in Scotland and ultimately throughout the world"
Successor to John Knox, influential educator and leader of the Scottish Church
by Rev Dr David Sutherland
Professor at the Reformed Presbyterian College, Knockbracken, Belfast
on Thursday, 20th February 2025 at 8:00 p.m.
in Newtownards Reformed Presbyterian Church
2 Regent Street, Newtownards, BT23 4LH
Everyone Welcome Refreshments provided
04/11/2024
PHSI Lecture
‘Presbyterians and Opposition to Slavery:
Principle, Pragmatism and Protest’
An examination of the widespread opposition to slavery amongst Presbyterians in Ireland and its practical outworking that led to tensions between Presbyterians and evangelicals in Ireland, Scotland and the United States
by Professor Andrew Holmes,
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast
on Thursday 21 November 2024 at 8.00 p.m.
in First Presbyterian Church Belfast
Rosemary Street BT1 1QB
Everyone Welcome Refreshments Provided
Preceded by (postponed) Special General Meeting at 7.15pm.
