“Yes. Presbyterianism still influences culture every Sunday in little colonies across the country where people gather to pray and to hear the word of God and, in that, to find the message for their own salvation and the salvation of the world. It’s when we do that, and folks find the truth about their own sinfulness and their own salvation, and then take that into the world in myriad ways, whether they are bankers or carpenters, or mothers or teachers or doctors … it’s then that Presbyterians are proclaiming the gospel. It’s in those colonies that this happens.”
– Bradley Longfield, dean of The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, speaking at the Presbyterian Historical Society luncheon at the 221st General Assembly in Detroit in response to a question, “Is Presbyterianism still influencing culture today? And if so, how?”
