Ulster Worldly is a blog about the history of presbyterianism.

I am a deacon in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and an arm-chair church historian. This site started with me making a digital archive of the writings of my grandfather and great grandfather who were PCUS (Southern Presbyterian) missionaries to Korea.

I am fascinated by American religious history broadly, and I am also particularly interested in the presbyterian controversy of the early 20th century.

The name “Ulster Worldly” is a silly combination of “other worldly” (in recognition that this world is not our home) and Ulster (for the Ulster Plantation in northern Ireland where many of my ancestors came from).

Tim Hopper
Raleigh, NC