Ecumenical and interfaith activities

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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:
The Many Faces of the Caribbean, 1993,
Description:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. production, published by Friendship Press, 1993.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Communications.
Geographic subjects:
Caribbean Area--Religious life and customs., Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166470
Title:
Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Possibilities and Problems, Riffat Hassan, 1992.
Description:
Digital transfer from Betacam SP.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services., Hassan, Riffat. (speaker)
Topics:
Christianity and other religions--Islam., Interfaith relations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340961
Title:
The Gospel and Islam, Byron Haines, 1992.
Description:
Digital transfer from Betacam SP.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services., Haines, Byron. (speaker)
Topics:
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340960
Title:
Arrest of Eugene Carson Blake, 1963.
Description:
On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Maryland, for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Radio and Television.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146310
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:
Lenten masses in G.E. Plant.
Description:
Bridgeport, Conn.--A noon mass is celebrated every Wednesday during Lent for employees at the General Electric Plant here. In this photo, an overflow crowd stands outside the auditorium while a mass is said inside. Officials of G.E. said similar arrangements were in effect at three other of the company's plants--in Burlington, VT., and Lynn and West Lynn, Mass.
Creator:
Reid, Alan. (photographer)
Subject names:
General Electric Company., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Lent.
Geographic subjects:
Bridgeport (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11026
Title:
The Chaplain's Medal.
Description:
[Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1920] The Chaplain's Medal.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Federal Council Bulletin., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., Military chaplains--Medals., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8458
Title:
Portrait of Victor DeRose.
Creator:
Religious Public Relations Council. (creator)
Subject names:
DeRose, Victor--Portraits.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4993
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:
American Church in Paris.
Description:
Dr. Williams' family in the apartment.
Subject names:
American and Foreign Christian Union--Archives., American Church in Paris.
Geographic subjects:
Paris (France)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5642
Title:
Youth protest liquor bill.
Description:
Montgomery, Ala.--Teenagers representing the Methodist Youth Assembly picket the state capitol here in protest against a bill that would permit cities to legalize liquor sales. Under present law, counties make the decision. Protestant clergy, laymen and young people from many parts of Alabama stormed the capitol to protest the bill, introduced by Senator George Quarles. Following a hearing by the Senate Temperance Committee, the Quarles Measure was killed by a 4-3 vote. Leading the picket line were (left to right) Dan Jackson and O.C. Brown.
Creator:
Smith, Mildred. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Temperance and religion--Alabama--Montgomery.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11022
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:
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller aboard the USS Krishna.
Description:
NCC President in War Zone: Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches, conducts services for officers and men of the USS Krishna, Naval supply ship off the coast of South Vietnam. Bishop Mueller of Indianapolis, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, spent a week in the South Vietnam war zone during the Easter season. He was accompanied on the annual visit to servicemen overseas -- for the first time this year to a war area-- by Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of New York, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, secretary for program of the NCC's Division of Christian Life and Mission.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Mueller, Reuben H., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Evangelical United Brethren Church., Buschmeyer, Fred S., Lee, J. Oscar., United Church of Christ.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--War work--Churches.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4950
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:
Map of migrant camp missions in California.
Description:
[Map showing locations of migrant camp missions in California.] Our road calls us, lures us, West, East, South and North. Most roads call men homewards; our road leads us forth. To add more miles to the tally of grey miles left behind, in quest of that one duty God has put us here to find.
Subject names:
Home Missions Council of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Migrant labor--Housing--California--Maps., Labor camps--California.
Geographic subjects:
California.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6731
Title:
World's First Religious Parliament.
Description:
Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.
Subject names:
World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Religious gatherings--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4931
Title:
Solidarity Day March.
Description:
Washington, D.C.--Churchmen were prominent among the 50,000 who gathered in the nation's Capital on June 19 to participate in the Solidarity Day march of the Poor People's Campaign. Representatives of the Synod of Virginia of the Presbyterian Church U.S. (Southern) leave the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church where a prayer service for the Campaign was held before the rally. As a denomination, the Presbyterian, U.S. Church had rejected endorsement of Solidarity Day.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of Virginia., New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Poor People's Campaign., African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7239
Title:
Portrait of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Description:
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, vice president emeritus of New York's Union Theological Seminary.
Subject names:
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Theologians--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:14456
Title:
College students ponder draft.
Description:
College students ponder draft.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Draft--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7983

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