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Title:
Edwin Bethea oral history part 2, 2023.
Description:
Interview (part two) conducted by Sonia Prescott with Edwin Ayres Bethea and Wendell Charles Love on July 3, 2023. Edwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama on May 15, 1931 to Monroe Ayres Bethea and Marzetta Pressley Bethea. Edwin spent his early childhood years with his grandparents and other paternal family members in Millers Ferry, Wilcox County, Alabama. Calvin B. Bethea (born 1863) and Annie McArthur Bethea (born 1868), Edwin’s paternal grandparents, were sharecroppers on the properties of Judge William Henderson in Millers Ferry. Edwin was educated in one of the six mission schools in Wilcox County supported by the Freedman’s Bureau and the United Presbyterian Church of North America. As his parents had been before him, Edwin was a student at the Millers Ferry Normal and Industrial School. In the interviews, Edwin provides a firsthand account of the Black Presbyterian experience in Wilcox County.
Creator:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)
Subject names:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359657
Title:
Edwin Bethea oral history part 1, 2023.
Description:
Interview (part one) conducted by Sonia Prescott with Edwin Ayres Bethea and Wendell Charles Love on July 3, 2023. Edwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama on May 15, 1931 to Monroe Ayres Bethea and Marzetta Pressley Bethea. Edwin spent his early childhood years with his grandparents and other paternal family members in Millers Ferry, Wilcox County, Alabama. Calvin B. Bethea (born 1863) and Annie McArthur Bethea (born 1868), Edwin’s paternal grandparents, were sharecroppers on the properties of Judge William Henderson in Millers Ferry. Edwin was educated in one of the six mission schools in Wilcox County supported by the Freedman’s Bureau and the United Presbyterian Church of North America. As his parents had been before him, Edwin was a student at the Millers Ferry Normal and Industrial School. In the interviews, Edwin provides a firsthand account of the Black Presbyterian experience in Wilcox County.
Creator:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)
Subject names:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359656
Title:
J. Herbert Nelson II oral history, 2023.
Description:
Interview of PC(USA) stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson II by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, June 2023.
Creator:
Nelson, J. Herbert, 1959-, II (interviewee)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357740
Title:
Jermaine Ross-Allam oral history, 2023.
Description:
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
Title:
Wesley Woo oral history
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
Title:
James Costen Sr. interviewed by James Costen Jr., Interdenominational Theological Center, 1998.
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
Title:
Cedric Portis oral history, 2023
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
Title:
Melva Costen memorial service video, 2023
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
Title:
Dan Smith memorial service, 2023.
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
Title:
Mary Jane Stickley oral history, 2023
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
Title:
Edwin Bethea oral history, 2023.
Description:
Via North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCFaXaadLM
Creator:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023.
Subject names:
North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345295
Title:
Dick Lundy oral history, 2022
Description:
Oral history interview of Dick Lundy, 11 May 2022, on St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, Minn.) accompaniment of Rene Hurtado, a refugee from El Salvador. Dick Lundy is a Presbyterian minister. From 1969 to 1980 he was pastor of McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church (Champaign, Ill.). From 1980 to 1994 he was senior pastor of St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, Minn.).
Creator:
Lundy, Richard A., 1932-
Topics:
Sanctuary movement, El Salvador--History--1979-1992
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344180
Title:
Babs Miller oral history, 2023.
Description:
Oral history with Babs Miller, parish associate at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.), on her career in ministry, including with Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.) during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and as an evangelist with That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS) in the 2000s. Babs Miller is a Presbyterian minister, ordained by Mission Presbytery in 2014. Born in Victoria, Texas in 1942, she attended the Presbyterian School for Christian Education (Richmond, Va.) in the 1960s, and worked as a Christian educator, a social worker, and a high school teacher in Texas. She went to Austin Theological Seminary from 1987 to 1990, came out as a lesbian, and began work with Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.). From about 2004 to 2012 she was an evangelist with That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS). She has served as parish associate at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.) since 2014, and continues advocacy for GLBTQ+ rights, in particular protection of trans youth and their families threatened by Texas state law codifying trans health therapies as child abuse. Starting in 2015, Miller was part of the group at St. Andrew's, as part of the Austin Sanctuary Network, declaring public sanctuary for migrants, and helped a mother and child, Hilda and Ivan, seek asylum.
Creator:
Miller, Babs Ann, 1942- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.), That All May Freely Serve (Association), St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.)
Topics:
Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterians., Sanctuary movement., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterians., Church work with immigrants.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344175
Title:
Behind the Scenes of the 216th General Assembly, 2004
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (216th : 2004 : Richmond, Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344174
Title:
Mark Davidson oral history, 2023
Description:
Oral history by Mark Davidson, former pastor of the Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.), on the congregation's advocacy for a just peace in Israel Palestine and their 2012 sponsorship of a city bus advertisement by the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation / U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
Creator:
Davidson, Mark
Subject names:
Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Topics:
Human rights advocacy--Palestine--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309420
Title:
J. Herbert Nelson II oral history, 2023
Description:
Interview of J. Herbert Nelson II, taken 13 January 2023, on his time at Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Creator:
Nelson, J. Herbert II, 1959- (interviewee)
Subject names:
Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism, Racism--United States
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309059
Title:
Joe Scrivner oral history, 2022
Description:
Joe Scrivner is Dean of Chapel at Stillman College (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and pastor of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Creator:
Scrivner, Joe (interviewee)
Subject names:
Stillman College, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism--Religious aspects--Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294115
Title:
The 58 LGBTQIA+ youth who attended the initial kin-dom camp in Texas went home blessed, as did their leaders.
Description:
Video of 1001 New Worshipping Communities ministry kin-dom community's inaugural edition of kin-dom camp, a week-long summer camp for youth ages 13 to 17 in the Synod of the Sun who identify as LGBTQIA+. Camp leaders and participants talk about how the camp came to be and the impact it has had on all participants. Video originally featured in a Presbyterian News Service article, "'I'm happier and it's crazy how that happens'" (published August 25, 2022).
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Mission Agency (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of the Sun., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Mission Agency.
Topics:
LGBTQ+ youth., Church work with youth.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288241
Title:
Chris Glaser oral history, 2022.
Description:
Chris Glaser was raised as an American Baptist in North Hollywood, California. He joined the Presbyterian Church in 1970 while in college at California State University, Northridge. He was an ordained elder at First Presbyterian Church of Van Nuys. From 1976 to 1978, he served as the only openly gay member of the UPCUSA Task Force to Study Homosexuality. From 1977 to 1987, he served as the founding director of the Lazarus Project, a ministry of reconciliation between the church and the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles, located at West Hollywood Presbyterian Church. He also served as the second national coordinator and treasurer of Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns (PLGC) and as editor of its newsletters (More Light). Interview covers the 1978 General Assembly, the UPCUSA Task Force to Study Homosexuality, the Lazarus Project, and Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns (PLGC).
Creator:
Glaser, Chris. (interviewee), Skaggs, Nicholas A. (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (190th : 1978 : San Diego, Calif.), Lazarus Project., Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns., West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.), Glaser, Chris.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287983
Title:
Magalene McClarrin oral history, 2022
Description:
Magalene McClarrin is a Presbyterian educator. Born in Roanoke, Va., she graduated from Johnson C. Smith University in 1972 and was recrutied to teach English in the Wyandanch Union Fre School District on Long Island. She is a member of Memorial Presbyterian Church (Roosevelt, N.Y.) and has served as moderator of the Presbytery of Long Island committee on ministry.
Creator:
McClarrin, Magalene
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287167

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