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History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America. Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.

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Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 3.
Description:
Alan T. Forbes and Jane Forbes in conversation with their grandson Tyler Flynn, Jr., about their life and work in the Buffalo Christian Center. Alan T. Forbes was a Baptist minister in Buffalo, N.Y., longtime director of the Buffalo Christian Center. He was born November 28, 1922, and married Letha Jane Woods on May 23, 1943. Forbes was ordained by an independent group of Western New York Baptist ministers in 1948 and became the first full-time director of the Youthtime Evangelism Fellowship at the Buffalo Christian Center. Forbes was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, participated in Billy Graham's crusades, hosted a radio program on WDCX "Good News at Noon," and helped organize a "baseball chapel" featuring members of the Toronto Blue Jays. He retired in 1992 and died in 2010.
Creator:
Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010. (interviewee), Forbes, Letha Jane. (interviewee), Flynn, Tyler, Jr. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Buffalo Christian Center (Buffalo, N.Y.), Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010.
Geographic subjects:
Buffalo (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116383
Title:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, 1975.
Description:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, audio cassette recording of service, 1975 January 28.
Subject names:
Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975.
Topics:
Memorial service., Ecumenists--United States., Missionaries--Oklahoma., Missionaries--China--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139007
Title:
World Mission Assembly in session.
Description:
General view of the World Mission Assembly held by the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
Creator:
Trayte.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Foreign Missions Conference of North America.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation--Ohio--Columbus., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Meetings--Ohio--Columbus.
Geographic subjects:
Columbus (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146237
Title:
A Call to a National Day of Prayer, Sunday, February 18, 1917 to the Church of Christ in America and to All Christian People.
Description:
A Call to a National Day of Prayer Sunday, February 18, 1917, to the Churches of Christ in America and to All Christian People, by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
Creator:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. (publisher), North, Frank Mason, 1850-1935. (author), Macfarland, Charles S. (author)
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10148
Title:
Korea Church World Service reports, 1959-1966.
Description:
Includes minutes, reports, and correspondence of the Korea Church World Service.
Creator:
Korea Church World Service. (author)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Overseas Ministries--Archives., Korea Church World Service.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149390
Title:
James Baldwin, "White Racism or World Community," July 7, 1968, tape 2.
Description:
Address by James Baldwin to a meeting of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala.
Creator:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (speaker)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., World Council of Churches., Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Uppsala (Sweden)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116377
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 5.
Description:
Alan T. Forbes and Jane Forbes in conversation with their grandson Tyler Flynn, Jr., about their life and work in the Buffalo Christian Center. Alan T. Forbes was a Baptist minister in Buffalo, N.Y., longtime director of the Buffalo Christian Center. He was born November 28, 1922, and married Letha Jane Woods on May 23, 1943. Forbes was ordained by an independent group of Western New York Baptist ministers in 1948 and became the first full-time director of the Youthtime Evangelism Fellowship at the Buffalo Christian Center. Forbes was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, participated in Billy Graham's crusades, hosted a radio program on WDCX "Good News at Noon," and helped organize a "baseball chapel" featuring members of the Toronto Blue Jays. He retired in 1992 and died in 2010.
Creator:
Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010. (interviewee), Forbes, Letha Jane. (interviewee), Flynn, Tyler, Jr. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Buffalo Christian Center (Buffalo, N.Y.), Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010.
Geographic subjects:
Buffalo (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116373
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake press conference, May 21, 1966.
Description:
News conference concerning Eugene Carson Blake's election as General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Blake also comments on the proposed Confession of 1967.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Subject names:
World Council of Churches., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (178th : 1966 : Boston, Mass.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116490
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 1.
Description:
Alan T. Forbes and Jane Forbes in conversation with their grandson Tyler Flynn, Jr., about their life and work in the Buffalo Christian Center. Alan T. Forbes was a Baptist minister in Buffalo, N.Y., longtime director of the Buffalo Christian Center. He was born November 28, 1922, and married Letha Jane Woods on May 23, 1943. Forbes was ordained by an independent group of Western New York Baptist ministers in 1948 and became the first full-time director of the Youthtime Evangelism Fellowship at the Buffalo Christian Center. Forbes was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, participated in Billy Graham's crusades, hosted a radio program on WDCX "Good News at Noon," and helped organize a "baseball chapel" featuring members of the Toronto Blue Jays. He retired in 1992 and died in 2010.
Creator:
Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010. (interviewee), Forbes, Letha Jane. (interviewee), Flynn, Tyler, Jr. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Buffalo Christian Center (Buffalo, N.Y.), Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010.
Geographic subjects:
Buffalo (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116384
Title:
Interboard Committee for Christian Work in Japan, April 1947-Dec 1950.
Description:
Includes minutes, reports, and correspondence of the committee.
Creator:
Interboard Committee for Christian Work in Japan. (author)
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141445
Title:
The Electronic Church (1980)
Description:
February 17, 190 episode of ABC News program, "Directions."
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Subject names:
Directions (Television program)
Topics:
Television broadcasting--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166893
Title:
Rev. F. M. North.
Description:
The Rev. F. M. North.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity., Interdenominational cooperation--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6042
Title:
The churches and the international crisis, 1938.
Description:
A message to the churches from a Conference of Church Leaders held in New York City, January 24 and 25, 1938. Received by the Executive Committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and commended to the churches for their careful attention and study.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Executive Committee.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Christian union--United States--Societies, etc., Councils and synods, Ecumenical.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:132209
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 2.
Description:
Alan T. Forbes and Jane Forbes in conversation with their grandson Tyler Flynn, Jr., about their life and work in the Buffalo Christian Center. Alan T. Forbes was a Baptist minister in Buffalo, N.Y., longtime director of the Buffalo Christian Center. He was born November 28, 1922, and married Letha Jane Woods on May 23, 1943. Forbes was ordained by an independent group of Western New York Baptist ministers in 1948 and became the first full-time director of the Youthtime Evangelism Fellowship at the Buffalo Christian Center. Forbes was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, participated in Billy Graham's crusades, hosted a radio program on WDCX "Good News at Noon," and helped organize a "baseball chapel" featuring members of the Toronto Blue Jays. He retired in 1992 and died in 2010.
Creator:
Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010. (interviewee), Forbes, Letha Jane. (interviewee), Flynn, Tyler, Jr. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Buffalo Christian Center (Buffalo, N.Y.), Forbes, Alan T., 1922-2010.
Geographic subjects:
Buffalo (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116371
Title:
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians," tape 1.
Description:
Sermon delivered to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations on prognosis for mission work, social justice, etc., at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, 1958.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4870
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Participants in Ecumenical Service of Worship and Millikin University Choir.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Millikin Choir., Millikin University.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Worship., Interfaith worship., Choirs (Music)
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161373
Title:
One Great Hour of Sharing features from Jeff Hatfield and Alan Krome.
Description:
Includes "Sudan: A Hunger for Peace"; "Building Communities," Norris Square, Philadelphia land trust and housing cooperative; "That They May Be Heard," Matamoros maquiladora workers; "Opening Doors," Interfaith Hospitality Network; "Holy Trees," northern Ethiopia reforestation; "Sharing Seeds," agricultural cooperative, Beattyville, Kentucky; "When the Wind Blows," interfaith disaster recovery; longform version of IHN homelessness outreach; "Touchpoint," newsmagazine/promo featuring work among Brazilian children.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Communications and Funds Development. Media Services., Hatfield, Jeff., Krome, Alan., One Great Hour of Sharing.
Topics:
Church and social problems--Presbyterian Church., Women offshore assembly industry workers--Mexico--Matamoros (Tamaulipas), Church work with the homeless., Reforestation--Ethiopia., Agriculture, Cooperative--Appalachian Region., Church work with disaster victims., Church work with children--Brazil.
Geographic subjects:
Sudan., Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.), Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico), Ethiopia., Appalachian Region., Brazil.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:143418
Title:
Vaudois Hymn.
Description:
Adapted from the Hymn of the Vaudios Mountaineers. By the Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.A.
Creator:
Horne, C. Silvester (Charles Silvester), 1865-1914. (author)
Topics:
Waldenses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4246
Title:
Correspondence regarding Alcide de Gasperi, 1947.
Description:
Files of General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, Samuel McCrea Cavert, regarding the Prime Minister of Italy, Alcide de Gasperi, from January through February of 1947. Correspondence primarily authored by McCrea Cavert, with some letters written by other high ranking officials such as Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.
Creator:
Cavert, Samuel McCrea, 1888-1976. (author), Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959. (author), Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972. (author), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (author), Diffendorfer, Ralph E. (Ralph Eugene), 1879-1951. (author)
Subject names:
De Gasperi, Alcide, 1881-1954., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation--Italy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145183
Title:
Correspondence primarily between George A., Buttrick and Samuel McCrea Cavert, 1940.
Description:
Files of General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, Samuel McCrea Cavert.
Creator:
Cavert, Samuel McCrea, 1888-1976. (author), Buttrick, George Arthur, 1892-1980. (author)
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives., Cavert, Samuel McCrea, 1888-1976., Buttrick, George Arthur, 1892-1980.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116028

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