Bryant Kirkland
Bryant M. Kirkland was a minister of the Presbyterian Church USA in the United States.
Early life
Born May 2, 1914 in Essex, Connecticut, he graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1935, then earned the Bachelor of Theology degree from Princeton University in 1938, and a master's degree at Eastern Baptist Seminary in 1946. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1938.Career
He served churches at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania; Narberth, Pennsylvania and Haddonfield, New Jersey; then was called as senior minister at First Presbyterian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before taking the pulpit of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1962, where he served until he retired in 1987. Starting in the late 1960s, he travelled weekly to teach preaching at Princeton seminary. He later served as president of the American Bible Society, and as interim minister at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C. and churches in Moorestown, N.J., and Malvern, Pennsylvania. He was a visiting lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary and a guest lecturer at the Army Chaplain School into the 1990s.After fully retiring, Kirkland and his second wife moved to a farm in Churchville, Virginia. He died on Easter Sunday morning, April 23, 2000, at a hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia.