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Jermaine Ross-Allam of the PC(USA) Center for Repair of Historic Harms, interviewed by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, May 29, 2023.
Creator:
Ross-Allam, Jermaine (interviewee), Priest, Margaret (interviewer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Center for the Repair of Historic Harms
Topics:
Racism--United States, Reparations for historical injustices, African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:354005
Description:
On racial justice in the PC(USA) since 1981. Wesley Woo is a Presbyterian minister, raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, ordained in 1972. From 1983 to 1991 he served as Associate for Asian Church Development, and Associate for Racial Justice Ministries. From 1992 to 2002 he worked for the Center for Community Change. He is a member of Christ United Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, Calif.).
Creator:
Woo, Wesley Stephen, 1945- (interviewee)
Topics:
Asian American Presbyterians, Chinese American Presbyterians, Racism--Religious aspects--Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353409
Description:
Part of the Off To Adventure motion picture series, jointly produced by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and the United Church of Christ. Chiefly interviews with a Puerto Rican minister in the United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., United Church of Christ
Subject names:
Iglesia Evangélica Unida de Puerto Rico
Geographic subjects:
Puerto Rico
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353263
Creator:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003. (interviewee), Costen, James Hutten, 1955-2018. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American Christian educators., African American clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348016
Description:
Producer, W. Ben Lane; music, John Denver; reading, Mike Maus; art, children of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Children's drawings, Bible readings, and the contemporary song, "I want to live," present a child's view of peace.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. (creator)
Topics:
Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity., Peace--Moral and ethical aspects.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348007
Description:
Oral history, 28 November 2023, on the history of Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.), its property struggles with the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, and the eventual reparative actions undertaken by the presbytery in 2023.
Creator:
Portis, Cedric (interviewee), Staniunas, David (interviewer)
Subject names:
Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:347416
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force on Central America.
Topics:
Church and social problems--Presbyterians., Church and the world., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
Central America--Politics and government--1979-, Central America--Social conditions--1979-
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345493
Description:
Video featuring Dean Lewis and Dieter Hessel, labeled "Theol and Social plenary," likely a Social Witness Implications of Reunion meeting, possibly at Ghost Ranch.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society, Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021
Topics:
Church and social problems--Presbyterians., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterians., Church and the world.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345492
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-2020 (speaker)
Subject names:
Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio)
Topics:
Black theology., African American Presbyterians, African American intellectuals.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345483
Description:
Live broadcast of panel and audience convened by the Committee on a Just Policitcal Economy, December 3, 1983
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society
Topics:
Economics--Moral and ethical aspects, Distributive justice, Peace--Religious aspects, Poverty--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345479
Description:
Live broadcast of panel and audience convened by the Committee on a Just Political Economy, December 3, 1983
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society
Topics:
Economics--Moral and ethical aspects, Distributive justice, Peace--Religious aspects, Poverty--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345478
Description:
Live broadcast of panel and audience convened by the Committee on a Just Political Economy, December 3, 1983
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society
Topics:
Economics--Moral and ethical aspects, Distributive justice, Peace--Religious aspects, Poverty--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345477
Description:
Live broadcast of panel and audience convened by the Committee on a Just Political Economy, December 3, 1983
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society
Topics:
Economics--Moral and ethical aspects, Distributive justice, Peace--Religious aspects, Poverty--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345476
Description:
Memorial service for Melva Costen, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Oscar McCloud presiding. Speakers include J. Herbert Nelson, Denise Anderson, Paul Roberts.
Creator:
Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Nelson, J. Herbert, II, 1959-, McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-, Anderson, T. Denise
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345474
Description:
PC(USA) video on the Sanctuary movement of the 1980s, featuring John Fife, Southside Presbyterian Church (Tucson, Ariz.), and Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Communications Unit. Video One
Topics:
Sanctuary movement., Church work with refugees--El Salvador., El Salvador--History--Civil War, 1979-1992.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345471
Description:
Dan Smith was a Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister, longtime pastor of West Hollywood United Church of Christ. He was born 2 February 1953 in Buffalo, N.Y., and educated at SUNY Fredonia and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a conscientious objector during the American war in Vietnam. He was ordained in 1978 and spent six years installed at First Presbyterian Church (Geneva, N.Y.) before moving to Los Angeles. He took the pastorate of West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) in 1984, becoming the first openly gay minister installed in a PC(USA) congregation. During his tenure the congregation would spearhead AIDS ministry in West Hollywood, and build the Lazarus Project, dedicated to reconciling the church with its LGBTQ community. Smith retired in 2020. He died 12 June 2023.
Creator:
Smith, Daniel Edmund, 1953-2023. (dedicatee), West Hollywood United Church of Christ (Los Angeles, Calif.) (creator)
Subject names:
West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.), Smith, Daniel Edmund, 1953-2023.
Topics:
LGBTQ+ Presbyterians., Gay clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345470
Description:
Mary Jane Stickley oral history, 2 August 2023, on CROP support of agricultural education and animal husbandry at Jibrail, in Northern Lebanon, 1960-1961.
Creator:
Stickley, Mary Jane
Subject names:
Christian Rural Overseas Project
Topics:
Missions--Lebanon
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345458
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345456
Description:
Seminar by Melva Costen, likely around the publication of Costen's book, African American Christian Worship, 1993.
Creator:
Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (speaker)
Subject names:
Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American public worship., Church music--African American churches.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345455
Description:
Seminar by Melva Costen, likely around the publication of Costen's book, African American Christian Worship, 1993.
Creator:
Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (speaker)
Subject names:
Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American public worship., Church music--African American churches.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345454

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