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Description:Rev. J. Ernest Somerville and UPCUSA moderator John T. Conner preachingCreator:First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (189th : 1977 : Philadelphia, Pa.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Moderator. (1977 : Conner), Somerville, J. Ernest, 1920-1986, Conner, John T., 1927-1983URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294211
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Description:Rev. J. Ernest Somerville and UPCUSA moderator John T. Conner preachingCreator:First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (189th : 1977 : Philadelphia, Pa.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Moderator. (1977 : Conner), Somerville, J. Ernest, 1920-1986, Conner, John T., 1927-1983URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294150
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Description:Mother's Day worship service, broadcast by WCAE, including address by Pittsburgh chapter of the NAACP. Part of Collection 89:6; Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PACreator:Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), WCAE (Radio station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)Topics:African American PresbyteriansURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293221
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Description:Recorded at the 176th General Assembly, UPCUSA, Oklahoma City, Okla., 5-24-64. Two white Presbyterian ministers from the Presbytery of Union relate how they were assaulted in their hotel room on the night of May 11th 1964 in Camden, Ala., following a meeting with representatives of four Black churches.Creator:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (176th : 1964 : Oklahoma City, Okla.), Stuart, Alexander Montgomery, 1926-, Orman, GeddesTopics:Civil rights--Alabama.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287114
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Description:Recorded at the United Presbyterian Women's National Meeting, Purdue University, July 17-22, 1985.Creator:United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1985 : Purdue University)., Dibo, Amal. (speaker)Topics:Ecumenical movement--Middle East., Refugees, Arab--Lebanon., Refugees, Arab--Palestine.Geographic subjects:Middle East.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286644
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Description:Recorded at the United Presbyterian Women's National Meeting, Purdue University, July 17-22, 1985.Creator:United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1985 : Purdue University), Dibo, Amal. (speaker)Topics:Ecumenical movement--Middle East., Refugees, Arab--Lebanon., Refugees, Arab--Palestine.Geographic subjects:Middle East.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286643
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Description:Witness accounts of atrocities committed by death squads in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and testimony of a Salvadoran woman sheltered by Central Presbyterian Church (Massillon, Ohio).Creator:United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1985 : Purdue University)., Yeager, Elizabeth Clair Hobart, 1925-2021, Elder, DianeTopics:Sanctuary movement, Atrocities -- Central America -- History -- 20th century.Geographic subjects:Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979-, United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America., Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286243
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Description:Recorded at the United Presbyterian Women's National Meeting, Purdue University, July 17-22, 1985. Marta Benavides (born 1943) is a feminist religious leader from El Salvador. She is a theologian, ordained American Baptist minister, permaculturist, educator, and artist. After the military coup in El Salvador in 1979 and the outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War, she became the leader of the Ecumenical Committee for Humanitarian Aid, a group sponsored by the Archbishop Óscar Romero. From 1982 to 1992 she lived in exile in the United States and Mexico.Creator:United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1985 : Purdue University)., Benavides, MartaTopics:Central America--Social conditions, Central America--Politics and government, Sanctuary movementGeographic subjects:El Salvador--History--Civil War, 1979-1992.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286242
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Description:Joanna Moseley Adams, Presbyterian minister, was born October 17, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Columbia Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1979. She served Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), North Decatur Presbyterian Church (Decatur, Ga.), and Trinity Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), before spending two years as co-pastor alongside John Buchanan at Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.). From 1996 on she was an organizer for and moderator of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians. She retired in 2010.Creator:Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer), Adams, Joanna. (interviewee)Subject names:Adams, Joanna., Covenant Network of Presbyterians., Trinity Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), North Decatur Presbyterian Church (Decatur, Ga.), Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)Topics:Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians., Presbyterian women., Ecumenical movement., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Interfaith worship.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286239
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Description:Recorded October 2, 1985 in Princeton, N.J. Part of oral history program for clergywomen. Peggy Howland was a Presbyterian minister and a peace and reproductive justice activist. Born in 1933, she graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and became the the 12th woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament on October 19, 1958. She completed a Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary in 1966. In 1968 she chaired the UPCUSA General Assembly's subcommittee on Vietnam. In 1969 she took the pastorate of Woodside Presbyterian Church (Troy, N.Y.). In Troy, she organized the Clergy Consultation Service on Problem Pregnancies, a group of fourteen clergy who provided "all options" counseling to women seeking legal or safe abortion. In the years after Roe v Wade, Howland was active in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, seeking to maintain safe and legal abortion. In retirement in Florida she was active in the Orlando Gay Chorus. She died of COVID-19 in 2021.Creator:Howland, Margaret Elizabeth, 1933-2021. (interviewee), Brasfield, Alice, 1931- (interviewer)Topics:Women clergy--Presbyterian Church.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286184
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Description:Recorded at the 6th Assembly of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, Philadelphia, Pa., 12-3-63. Meditation delivered by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake at a memorial service for Pres. Kennedy, held on the night the President had been scheduled to speak at the Assembly.Creator:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985Subject names:Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. General Assembly (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286182
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Description:Recorded October 18, 1979 in Philadelphia. Seminar conducted by Lois Boyd for the Oral History Committee of the Presbyterian Historical Society.Creator:Presbyterian Historical Society, Boyd, Lois A., 1936-2007 (speaker)Topics:Public history--United StatesURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286181
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Description:Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, CIA recruitment of Blake, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.Creator:Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990, Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaTopics:Ecumenical movement--Soviet UnionURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286180
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Description:Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.Creator:Soboleff, Walter A., 1908-2011 (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)Subject names:Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)Topics:Tlingit Indians--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Tlingit Indians--Religion.Geographic subjects:Alaska.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286020
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Description:Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.Creator:Soboleff, Walter A., 1908-2011. (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)Subject names:Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)Topics:Tlingit Indians--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Tlingit Indians--Religion.Geographic subjects:Alaska.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:285859