Background
Bryant Mays Kirkland was born on May 2, 1914, in Essex, Connecticut, the United States, to Henry Burnham, and Helen Josephine (Mays) Kirkland.
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Kirkland graduated in 1935 from Wheaton College in Illinois.
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Kirkland received his bachelor of theology at Princeton in 1938 and a master's degree at Eastern Baptist Seminary in 1946.
Bryant Mays Kirkland was born on May 2, 1914, in Essex, Connecticut, the United States, to Henry Burnham, and Helen Josephine (Mays) Kirkland.
Kirkland graduated in 1935 from Wheaton College in Illinois. He received his bachelor of theology at Princeton in 1938 and a master's degree at Eastern Baptist Seminary in 1946.
Kirkland led New York City's largest Presbyterian congregation for over 25 years, from 1962 to 1987. He later served as president of the American Bible Society and interim minister at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington and congregations in Moorestown, New Jersey, and Malvern, Philadelphia.
He was a visiting lecturer in homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary and a guest lecturer at the Army Chaplain School well into the 1990's. In recent years he also was a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation of Radnor, Pa., which promotes education and ''progress in religion.''
He wrote a number of books focused on Christian theology. Some of his works include: Growing in the Christian Faith, from 1963, Home before Dark, published in 1965, the 1972 Living in a Zigzag Age, and his Pattern of Faith from 1982.
Kirkland was a devoted Presbyterian.
Two years prior to his death, Kirkland married Lola Mae Shiftel Kirkland. His first wife of 55 years, Bernice Tanis Kirkland, died in 1996. He had three daughters.