Dr. Harrison Perkins

Harrison strives to be a devoted churchman and academic, fully committed both to serving the church directly and to producing scholarship at technical and accessible levels. His passion is to minister the gospel personally and use his academic training to help equip others for fruitful and informed service in Christ’s church. He loves being a pastor and preaching God’s Word each Lord’s Day. Alongside his ecclesiastical service, he seeks to use his academic training for the church’s benefit by teaching in several settings of theological education. 

Harrison is the pastor at Oakland Hills Community Church, which is a congregation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the Detroit-metro area. Previously, he pastored for seven years in the United Kingdom. He was a pastor at London City Presbyterian Church and, before that, an assistant minister in Northern Ireland. While in seminary, he was a pastoral intern at New Life Presbyterian Church La Mesa, where he served as weekly supply for a vacant Dutch Reformed congregation two miles north of the Mexican border. He has served short-term in several international contexts, including Romania, Hungary, and New Zealand.

Harrison holds several academic positions. He is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards. He is on the editorial board in Reformation history for Oxford University Press’ Journal of Theological Studies, and serves editorial roles with Christian Focus Publications on the Christian Pocket Guides series in systematic theology and, with Matthew C. Bingham, on an academic series in historical theology, Reformed Investigations in Church History. He is online faculty in church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, visiting faculty at Birmingham Theological Seminary and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and a visiting lecturer in systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. 

Harrison’s books and articles can be found elsewhere on this site. He loves to write and tries to keep an active writing ministry. He is a regular contributor to Sola Media’s Modern Reformation, Ligonier Ministries and their Tabletalk publications, and for the Heidelberg Reformation Association.

Harrison is a native southerner, most of his family living near Birmingham Alabama. He came to appreciate the Reformed faith in college while a member at Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCA). He enjoys roasting his own dark roast coffee, as well as eating sweet potatoes and southern barbecue. He is married to Sarah, who is the talented artist behind Illustrated Theology and The Canons of Dork. They have one son, Scott, who loves trains.