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:
Churchman gets ready for cold.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Foch, Martin C., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska)
Topics:
Christmas., Interdenominational cooperation., Military chaplains--Alaska--Anchorage.
Geographic subjects:
Anchorage (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288247
Title:
Dr. Blake in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-20060. DR. BLAKE IN ALASKA. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, President of the National Council of Churches, is fitted with arctic gear at Elmendorf Air Force Base here during his Christmas visit to American servicemen and chaplains of the Alaskan command. Assisting him is Chaplain (Col.) Martin C. Foch of the Alaskan Command. Dr. Blake made the journey as spiritual ambassador of the National Council's 30 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Communions and their 144,000 local churches. The visit marks the third consecutive year that he has spent the Christmas holidays with the men in the armed forces. CREDIT MUST READ: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-12C-56-NAB-P)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Foch, Martin C., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska)
Topics:
Christmas., Interdenominational cooperation., Military chaplains--Alaska--Anchorage.
Geographic subjects:
Anchorage (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288246
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, addresses a business session of the 182nd General Assembly.
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.), World Council of Churches., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Worship., Interfaith worship.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161375
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Participants in Ecumenical Service of Worship, with Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, General Secretary, World Council of Churches, speaking.
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.), World Council of Churches., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Worship., Interfaith worship.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161372
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:
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:
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:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 3.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116405
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 2.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116404
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 6.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116397
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 4.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116396
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 1.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116394
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake and Roswell P. Barnes in conversation, side 5.
Description:
Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., McLeod, Scott, 1914-1961., McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957., Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Topics:
Anti-communist movements.
Geographic subjects:
Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116390
Title:
March leaders confer with president.
Description:
The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph, founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:12190
Title:
American churchmen visit Moscow gallery.
Description:
Moscow--American church leaders visit the Tretiakov Gallery here during their ten-day stay in the Soviet Union. Shown in front row are, left to right: Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J., a member of the National Council's general board; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council; Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; Paul B. Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee; and Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America.
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11060
Title:
American churchmen sight-seeing in Moscow.
Description:
Moscow--Seven of nine American Protestant leaders on a ten-day visit to Moscow go sight-seeing in Red Square accompanied by a Russian Orthodox churchman and two interpreters. Left to right are: Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J., an attorney; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Franklin C. Fry of New York, President of the United Lutheran Church in America; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; an unidentified interpreter; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council; Archimandrite Pemin of the Russian Orthodox Church; unidentified interpreter; Dr. Hubert Gezork of Newton Center, Mass., president of Andover Newtown Theological Seminary; and Paul B. Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee. The visit was sponsored by the National Council at the invitation of the Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian church.
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11058
Title:
Protestant churchmen in Moscow.
Description:
Moscow--Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsky and Kolomna, second-ranking official of the Moscow patriarchate, greets Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council of Churches, on the arrival here of nine American church officials for a ten-day visit. Dr. Blake is head of the delegation. The trip was sponsored by the National Council at the invitation of patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. The American visit will be returned in June by a Russian Orthodox group. While in Moscow, the churchmen will confer and seek to establish continuing with Christian leaders of the Soviet Union. (Clergymen in background not identified.)
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer), Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Nikolaĭ, Metropolitan of Krutit︠s︡y and Kolomna, 1892-1961, Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11057
Title:
John F. Kennedy memorial service.
Description:
Participating in the memorial service for John F. Kennedy were left to right: J. Irwin Miller; Bishop Baber and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (6th : 1963 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Death and burial., Miller, J. Irwin (Joseph Irwin), 1909-2004.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7681
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake arrested.
Description:
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.
Creator:
Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7398
Title:
NCC Officials Face Mississippi Press.
Description:
Eugene Carson Blake, left, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and chairman of the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race, and Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, [meet with reporters in the concourse of the Jackson, Mississippi airport to explain the Delta Ministry's summer student program].
Creator:
Chambers, Elsie M. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Delta Ministry of Mississippi., Religious News Service--Archives., Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Topics:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--20th century., Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Jackson (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7199

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