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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:
Paul Lamar oral history, 2021.
Description:
Paul Lamar, the oldest son of UPCUSA moderator Robert C. Lamar, talks about his father's work and witness, and about growing up gay inside and outside the Presbyterian Church.
Creator:
Lamar, Paul. (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Moderator (1974 : Lamar), First Presbyterian Church (Albany, N.Y.), Lamar, Paul--Interviews., Lamar, Robert C.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175927
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:
Stony Point Center.
Description:
Web site of the Stony Point Center. More than a conference center, this is a place of simple accommodations, sustainable values and a spirit of hospitality. The Center is welcoming across boundaries by providing overnight and day-use accommodations and meeting spaces for individuals and groups. It nurtures an inclusive community by respecting the uniqueness of each person. They practice courageous conversations, study of sacred texts, faithful action, and the creative arts. The Center also cultivates peace and justice by supporting the multifaith movement for nonviolence and eco-social justice. They engage in networking, human rights accompaniment, advocacy, coalition building, and nonviolent direct action.
Creator:
Stony Point Center (Stony Point, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
Stony Point Center (Stony Point, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church conference centers--New York--Stony Point., Spiritual retreats--New York--Stony Point., Interfaith worship--New York--Stony Point., Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Green movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Stony Point (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130139
Title:
Agricultural Missions, Inc.
Description:
Web site of Agricultural Missions, Inc., a steadfast response to rural poverty and injustice. Their mission is to support people of all faiths and spiritual consciousness around the world in the struggle to end the poverty and injustice that affect rural communities and work towards the creation of a peaceful and sustainable community.
Creator:
Agricultural Missions, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
Agricultural Missions, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Missions--Agricultural work., Rural missions., Church work with the poor.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129960
Title:
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
Description:
Web site of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, a wide network of peacemakers who engage issues of both national and international import. The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship started in the 1940s as a group that provided support to Conscientious Objectors to World War II, a war in which objection was quite unpopular. Since then, they have continued to be a prophetic voice in our church, urging the abolition of war and encouraging our sisters and brothers to enact peace in the midst of our broken world. They have helped lead the PC(USA) to take bold stances in the face of violence.
Creator:
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
Topics:
Pacifism--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Peace--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Gun control--United States., Arab-Israeli conflict.
Geographic subjects:
Stony Point (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129909
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake, "Apostle, servant for Jesus' sake," 22 January 1962.
Description:
Eugene Carson Blake sermon recorded Jan. 22, 1962 at the Interchurch Center, New York, NY.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Sermons, American--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116498
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010.
Description:
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:116386
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 7.
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:116385
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:
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:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 6.
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:116379
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 8.
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:116374
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:
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:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 9.
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:116370
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 4.
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:116368
Title:
Alan T. Forbes oral history, 2010, side 10.
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:116366
Title:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church choir, 1963.
Description:
Choir test recordings for the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. National Radio Pulpit, recorded 21 November 1963, broadcast on NRP, January 1964. Engineer Harold Campbell.
Creator:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
National radio pulpit.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71693
Title:
Churchmen visiting Russia.
Description:
These nine American Protestant leaders left here March 9 to visit Moscow where they will hold talks with Christian leaders there. Their 10-day trip marks the first phase of a two-way visit that will bring Russian churchmen to this country next June as guests of the National Council of Churches. Shown left to right are: front row, Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal District; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA and president of the National Council; and Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J. (Methodist), an attorney and member of the National Council's General Board. In rear: Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (Methodist), executive director of the National Council's Department of International Affairs; Dr. Herbet Gezork of Newton Center, Mass. (Baptist), president of Andover Newton Theological Seminary; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York (Presbyterian), the National Council's associate general secretary; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; and Paul B. Anderson of New York (Congregational Christian), secretary of the YMCA International Committee.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11056
Title:
Iron Curtain gets Christmas programs.
Description:
New York--A special Christmas Day program broadcast to Poland by Radio Free Europe is recorded in a studio here by Polish-American children. Similar messages of sympathy and Christmas cheer were broadcast to Catholics and Protestants in other countries behind the Iron Curtain by RFE and the Voice of America. Among the countries receiving the programs were Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Creator:
Radio Free Europe. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Christmas radio programs--Poland., Children's radio programs--Poland., Communist countries.
Geographic subjects:
Poland.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11029

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