He was a founding minister of the Presbyterian Church of America which became the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) in 1936.
VanDrunen is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois.
In 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick, a prominent modernist Baptist serving as a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in New York City, delivered a sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win"?
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Standing in the tradition of men like Charles Hodge, Geerhardus Vos, and B. B. Warfield, Machen was one of the chief conservative professors at Princeton Theological Seminary, which until the early twentieth century was a bastion of orthodox Presbyterian theology.
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However, a significant faction of the OPC, led by Carl McIntire, and including other men such as J. Oliver Buswell and Allan MacRae held to such things as total abstinence from alcohol and Premillennialist eschatology (positions held by a number of respected leaders throughout the history of American Presbyterianism).
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He operated a small freight delivery company in Ontario's Niagara region in the 1990s, and served as the pastor of Living Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Vineland.