James S. Currie, Executive Secretary Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest In recent years several books have appeared with little more than the year as their titles. Most recently Andrew Ross Sorkin has written a New York Times bestseller bearing the title 1929 which focuses on that year’s stock market crash. In 2022 Volker Ulrich published Germany 1923. In 2008 Mike Rapport wrote 1848: Year of Revolution. Particular years are often remembered for specific events or developments...

James S. Currie, Executive Secretary Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest In May of 1934 some pastors and theologians gathered in a church in Wuppertal, Germany to draw up a statement declaring what the church stood for in the face of the Nazi movement and the demands and actions of the Nazi government. Out of that gathering came the “Theological Declaration of Barmen”. In the early 1980s the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, East Germany began organizing weekly prayers for peace....

James S. Currie, Executive Secretary, Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest He was born in Conway, Arkansas on July 28, 1931. He died in Little Rock on July 2, 2009. He was an Arkansan through and through. However, because of his deep Arkansas roots, he once told this writer that he left Arkansas for Texas to get away from home and establish his own identity. Evidently he thought that others could benefit from that move as well. Following his graduation from Hendrix College in...