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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
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Description:Video two of a two part set of lectures and presentations produced by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church.Creator:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Office of the General Assembly. (film producer), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church. (creator)Subject names:Jesus Christ--Person and offices., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church--Archives.Topics:Discernment (Christian theology)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288236
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Description:Video one of a two part set of lectures and presentations produced by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church.Creator:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Office of the General Assembly. (film producer), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church--Archives.Topics:Discernment (Christian theology)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288235
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Description:Video lecture delivered for New York Theological Seminary, 30 March 1988.Creator:Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-2020. (speaker)Subject names:New York Theological Seminary., Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915.Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280761
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Description:Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary, delivers a lecture on doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God as lessons of liberation for the life of seminary and church. Using the life story and literary writings of Phillis Wheatley to illuminate these lessons of liberation, the speaker asks what difference it might make in seminaries, churches, and the dailiness of our Christian lives, if we took seriously the writings of Phillis Wheatley and others from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.Creator:Cannon, Katie G.Subject names:Wheatley, Phyllis, 1753-1784., Cannon, Katie G.Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Womanist theology., African American women authors., Liberation theology., Church and education.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177195
