Walter L. Taylor
Walter L. Taylor is Senior Pastor of Oak Island Presbyterian Church (EPC), Oak Island, North Carolina.
Four essays from four issues, 2001 to 2017
2020
Two essays
Clothes Make the Man (or the Woman)?Issue 2, 2001
What clergy wear in worship has changed in his lifetime, and Taylor isn't quite sure all the changes are improvements. Working from Lorimer's nineteenth-century painting of…
Can the Lord’s Supper Be “Online”?Issue 4, 2004
Online communion split Presbyterians worldwide during COVID. Taylor lays out why his own congregation declined the option even when their denomination permitted it, taking Paul's warning…
2017
One essay
Luther asked how a sinner is made right with God. Calvin asked an even prior question: how is God rightly worshiped? Taylor argues that the Reformation's…
2016
One essay
Worship Reformed According to ScriptureSummer 2016
Hughes Oliphant Old died in May 2016 at age eighty-three, leaving behind decades of scholarship that shaped Reformed worship across denominational lines. Taylor's tribute traces what…