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History of Presbyterian and Reformed church governance, congregations, ministers, and theology. See the following related collections: Presbyterian General Assemblies; Church buildings; Protestant Reformation; and Sermons. Featured image: Synod of Catawba clergy and lay commissioners.

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Title:
Interview of Dean H. Lewis by R. Douglas Brackenridge, Tape 1, Side 1.
Description:
Cassette tape 1, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses his upbringing as a Southern Baptist in Missouri, his attendance of Yale Divinity School, his time as a pastor in Springdale, Arkansas, and his career leading up to his time in the Office of Church and Society. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344382
Title:
Central America presentations, United Presbyterian Women, 1985.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286244
Title:
Joanna Adams oral history, 2017.
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
Title:
Jim Costen interviewed by Lawrence Bottoms, 1991.
Description:
At Morningside Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 11 July 1991.
Creator:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003. (interviewee), Bottoms, Lawrence. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--History., African American churches., African Americans--Religious life.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183344
Title:
Cecil Corbett speech at General Assembly, 1968.
Description:
Cecil Corbett was a Nez Perce Presbyterian minister and church worker. A member of First Indian Presbyterian Church (Kamiah, Idaho), he served as president of Cook College and Theological School in Tempe, Arizona, as national agency staff liaison to Native American churches, and in retirement as an itinerant pastor. He died in 2020 of COVID-19.
Creator:
Cook College and Theological School., Corbett, Cecil, 1931-2020.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (180th : 1968 : Minneapolis), Corbett, Cecil, 1931-2020.
Topics:
Indigenous Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180807
Title:
Margaret Jerrido oral history.
Description:
Oral history of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church archivist, Margaret Jerrido, conducted by David Staniunas, September 27, 2016. Margaret Jerrido is the archivist of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.). She was born and raised in Philadelphia, graduated from Temple University, completed an MLIS at Drexel University, and was a long-serving archivist at the Temple Urban Archives.
Creator:
Jerrido, Margaret. (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), Jerrido, Margaret.
Topics:
Church archives--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., African American churches--Philadelphia.--Pennsylvania
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166801
Title:
Chris Paige oral history, 2019.
Description:
Chris Paige is a transgender activist who created Transfaith Online in 1999. Paige was ordained as an elder in the PC(USA) in 1971 and helped establish transgender groups in the United Church of Christ, the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, and throughout Philadelphia.
Creator:
Paige, Chris. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
More Light Presbyterians
Topics:
Gender identity--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Christian transgender people., Transgender people.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153484
Title:
Arthur Fullerton oral history, 2019.
Description:
Arthur Fullerton was a member of More Light Churches in New York City, Los Angeles (including West Hollywood Presbyterian Church), and Albany, New York. In 2017, he became the first openly gay Moderator of Albany Presbytery.
Creator:
Fullerton, Arthur (interviewee)
Subject names:
More Light Presbyterians
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--20th Century., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153483
Title:
David Colby oral history, 2019.
Description:
Rev. Dr. David Colby is a Presbyterian minister, serving Central Presbyterian Church (St. Paul, Minn.). He served on the board of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians from 2002-2015 and chaired the Strategy and Local Organizing Committee of the board from 2007-2015, including during the successful ratification campaigns for ordination and marriage.
Creator:
Colby, David. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Covenant Network of Presbyterians., Colby, David.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150255
Title:
Lisa Larges oral history, 2019.
Description:
Lisa Larges, a 1989 graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, was first denied ordination as a minister of word and sacrament in 1993. She joined That All May Freely Serve in 2002, serving as regional coordinator, and later as minister coordinator. Her ordination by the Presbytery of San Francisco in 2009 was challenged and spent three years in Synod and GAPJC proceedings. In 2016, she was ordained as a teaching elder at the Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church (Minneapolis, MN).
Creator:
Larges, Lisa. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
That All May Freely Serve, More Light Presbyterians
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects--Christianity, Ordination of gays, Ordination of lesbians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150251
Title:
Leon Fanniel interviewed by Beth Shalom Hessel, 2017.
Description:
Leon Fanniel, Presbyterian musician, administrator, and minister, was born in 1930 in Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from Huston-Tillotson College (Austin, Tex.), George Williams College (Chicago, Ill.), and McCormick Theological Seminary. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Chicago in 1969. Fanniel was executive of the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii in 1971-1972, and became the first executive director of the General Assembly Mission Council, serving from 1972 to 1975. Fanniel served as pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) from 1975 to 1996. He died December 20, 2018 in Pasadena, California.
Creator:
Fanniel, Leon, 1930-2018. (interviewee), Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer)
Subject names:
National Black Presbyterian Caucus.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149653
Title:
David B. Smith oral history, 2019.
Description:
David B. Smith is a Presbyterian minister, serving Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church (Bryn Mawr, Pa.). He grew up in western North Carolina, and attended Montreat College and Montreat Presbyterian Church (Montreat, N.C.). He completed a Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 2018.
Creator:
Smith, David B. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146379
Title:
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians".
Description:
Address by King delivered at COEMAR breakfast, Presbyterian General Assembly, 1958. Second-generation dub from original recording in 89-0626c.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (170th : 1958 : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146281
Title:
Jack Haberer oral history interview, 2018.
Description:
Jack Haberer was moderator of the PC(USA) Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity, and an organizer of the Presbyterian Coalition, a group which marshaled opposition to the ordination of lesbians and gay men.
Creator:
Haberer, Jack. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Covenant Network of Presbyterians., Presbyterian Coalition., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:143420
Title:
Jerry Andrews oral history, 2017.
Description:
Jerry Andrews, Presbyterian minister, was born and raised in Detroit, Mich. He was senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) from 1992 to 2009, and of First Presbyterian Church (San Diego, Calif.) since 2009. From 1992 on, Andrews was an organizer and moderator of conservative Presbyterian groups, the Genevans, the Fellowship of Presbyterians, and ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians.
Creator:
Andrews, Jerry, 1953- (interviewee), Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Andrews, Jerry, 1953-, Genevans., Presbyterian Coalition.
Topics:
Evangelicalism--Presbyterian Church., Christian conservatism--United States., Religious institutions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141950
Title:
Rachel Henderlite at Mo-Ranch, July 1966.
Description:
Dr. Rachel Henderlite, Mo-Ranch, 11-12 Grade Workshop, July 13-23, 1966. Reel 1 - "What is man?" - "Man as destined," July 19, 1966 - 7:30 pm.
Creator:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991. (speaker)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly.
Topics:
Women clergy--United States., Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139199
Title:
Rachel Henderlite's vision statement for a reunited Presbyterian Church, 1982.
Description:
Audiocassette and open reel audiotape: Henderlite's vision statement for a reunited Presbyterian Church with intro by Bluford Hestir, pre-recorded in Austin, Texas, as a part of the Joint Committee on Reunion's presentation to the 1982 Assemblies on the Plan for Reunion, 1982.
Creator:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991. (speaker)
Topics:
Christian union--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139003
Title:
Rachel Henderlite interview for the Journal of Presbyterian History.
Description:
Rachel Henderlite interview for the Journal of Presbyterian History, conducted by Lois A. Boyd and R. Douglas Brackenridge of Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) in Austin, Texas, 1977 Jan. 24.
Creator:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991. (interviewee), Boyd, Lois A. (interviewer), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139002
Title:
Rachel Henderlite interview for the Journal of Presbyterian History.
Description:
Rachel Henderlite interview for the Journal of Presbyterian History, conducted by Lois A. Boyd and R. Douglas Brackenridge of Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) in Austin, Texas, 1977 Jan. 24.
Creator:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991 (interviewee), Boyd, Lois A. (interviewer), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139001
Title:
Rachel Henderlite interview for the Journal of Presbyterian History.
Description:
Rachel Henderlite interview for the Journal of Presbyterian History, conducted by Lois A. Boyd and R. Douglas Brackenridge of Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) in Austin, Texas, 1977 Jan. 24.
Creator:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991. (interviewee), Boyd, Lois A. (interviewer), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139000

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