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Church involvement in social and political issues and activism, including civil rights, protests, and war work. Also, social and political reformers connected to the church. See the following related collections: Civil rights, protests, and social reformers; Wars. Featured image: Religious with Rosa Parks, 1963.

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Title:
Letter from Anne Wexler to Dean H. Lewis, January 18, 1980.
Description:
Letter addressed to Dean Lewis regarding energy issues and his recent visit to the White House. Written by Anne Wexler, Assistant to President Jimmy Carter.
Creator:
Wexler, Anne, 1930-2009. (author), Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (addressee)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United States. President (1977-1981: Carter), Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021., Wexler, Anne, 1930-2009.
Topics:
Church and the world., Energy conservation. 
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344283
Title:
The Work of the Standing Committee on Church and Society.
Description:
Work summary and guidelines for newly elected members of the Standing Committee on Church and Society.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society.
Topics:
Church and the world.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344271
Title:
Letter from Sam H. Franklin, Jr. to Lois Stair, December 28, 1971.
Description:
Letter from Professor Sam H. Franklin, Jr. of Tokyo Union Theological Seminary, to Lois Stair, Moderator of the General Assembly, concerning Christian morality and the Vietnam War.
Creator:
Franklin, Sam H. (author), Stair, Lois, 1923-1981. (addressee)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Stair, Lois, 1923-1981., Franklin, Sam H., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Moral and ethical aspects.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344269
Title:
Letter and articles from Chris Glaser to the ruling elders of First Presbyterian Church of Van Nuys.
Description:
Regarding Chris Glaser's identity as a gay Presbyterian.
Creator:
Glaser, Chris. (author), First Presbyterian Church (Van Nuys, Calif.) (addressee)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Glaser, Chris., First Presbyterian Church (Van Nuys, Calif.)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344259
Title:
Procedures
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society.
Topics:
Church and the world.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344241
Title:
The Pronouncements of the General Assembly.
Description:
Prepared by the Office of Church and Society, May 10, 1966.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.
Topics:
Church and the world., Social policy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344231
Title:
Department of Social Education and Action.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action.
Topics:
Church and the world.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344222
Title:
Task Force to Study Homosexuality, Regional Hearing - Bill Silver.
Description:
Transcript of testimony from Bill Silver, the first openly gay ordination candidate in the UPCUSA.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality. (creator), Silver, William David, 1947-2007. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Silver, William David, 1947-2007., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity., Ordination of gays--Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344215
Title:
Sugar Quota letters, 1971.
Description:
Letters from John R. Yost and Dean H. Lewis (June 4 and 28, 1971) to members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives regarding Sugar Quota legislation and apartheid in South Africa. Includes replies from Senator Walter F. Mondale (July 22, 1971) and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (September 21, 1971).
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (author), Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978. (author), Mondale, Walter F., 1928-2021. (author), Yost, John R. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society., Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Mondale, Walter F., 1928-2021., Yost, John R., United States. Congress.
Topics:
Apartheid--South Africa., Foreign trade regulation--United States., Anti-apartheid activists--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Foreign economic relations--South Africa.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344210
Title:
Office of Church and Society.
Description:
Overview of the UPCUSA's Office of Church and Society, which was assigned the responsibility for helping the Church to speak and act with theological obedience and pragmatic effectiveness within and upon the structures and forces of the secular society.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society.
Topics:
Church and the world.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344198
Title:
1971 Functions, Priorities, Limiting Commitments of the Department of Church and Society.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society.
Topics:
Church and the world.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344192
Title:
Rev. Bruce William Klunder memorial address by Eugene Carson Blake.
Description:
Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.
Topics:
Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344177
Title:
Babs Miller oral history, 2023.
Description:
Oral history with Babs Miller, parish associate at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.), on her career in ministry, including with Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.) during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and as an evangelist with That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS) in the 2000s. Babs Miller is a Presbyterian minister, ordained by Mission Presbytery in 2014. Born in Victoria, Texas in 1942, she attended the Presbyterian School for Christian Education (Richmond, Va.) in the 1960s, and worked as a Christian educator, a social worker, and a high school teacher in Texas. She went to Austin Theological Seminary from 1987 to 1990, came out as a lesbian, and began work with Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.). From about 2004 to 2012 she was an evangelist with That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS). She has served as parish associate at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.) since 2014, and continues advocacy for GLBTQ+ rights, in particular protection of trans youth and their families threatened by Texas state law codifying trans health therapies as child abuse. Starting in 2015, Miller was part of the group at St. Andrew's, as part of the Austin Sanctuary Network, declaring public sanctuary for migrants, and helped a mother and child, Hilda and Ivan, seek asylum.
Creator:
Miller, Babs Ann, 1942- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.), That All May Freely Serve (Association), St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.)
Topics:
Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterians., Sanctuary movement., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterians., Church work with immigrants.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344175
Title:
How to Help Japanese American Student Relocation.
Description:
Informational pamphlet published by the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council. The objective of the NJSRC was to assist federally incarcerated Japanese American students in continuing their education.
Subject names:
National Japanese American Student Relocation Council., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Division of Higher Education., American Friends Service Committee.
Topics:
Japanese American college students--History--20th century., Japanese Americans--Education (Higher)--History--20th century., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343578
Title:
Migrant Ministries, May 1993.
Description:
Program on Presbyterian assistance for migrant laborers in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. Digital transfer from Betacam.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Media Services.
Topics:
Migrant laborers' families., Church work with migrant labor.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340994
Title:
"That All May Freely Serve" newsletter.
Description:
"That All May Freely Serve" newsletter, vol. 21, no. 2, September 2005. Published by the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York. TAMFS was founded in 1992 to advocate for an inclusive and welcoming Church and for the ordination of qualified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) candidates for ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Creator:
That All May Freely Serve (Association) (creator)
Subject names:
Sindt, David, 1940-1986--Archives., That All May Freely Serve (Association), Downtown United Presbyterian Church (Rochester, N.Y.)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Rochester (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340389
Title:
A Service of Celebration and Welcome for Thomas M. Hickok.
Description:
Program for a Service of Celebration and Welcome for Thomas M. Hickok, Minister of Outreach and Justice at First United Church of Oak Park.
Creator:
That All May Freely Serve (Association) (creator)
Subject names:
Sindt, David, 1940-1986--Archives., That All May Freely Serve (Association), Hickok, Thomas M., First United Church of Oak Park (Oak Park, Ill.)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Oak Park (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340380
Title:
That All May Freely Serve - Chicago.
Description:
Brochure for the Chicago chapter of That All May Freely Serve. TAMFS was founded in 1992 to advocate for an inclusive and welcoming Church and for the ordination of qualified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) candidates for ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Creator:
That All May Freely Serve (Association) (creator)
Subject names:
Sindt, David, 1940-1986--Archives., That All May Freely Serve (Association)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340376
Title:
"That All May Freely Serve" newsletter.
Description:
"That All May Freely Serve" newsletter, vol. 11, no. 2, September 2004. Published by the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York. TAMFS was founded in 1992 to advocate for an inclusive and welcoming Church and for the ordination of qualified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) candidates for ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Creator:
That All May Freely Serve (Association) (creator)
Subject names:
Partridge, Greg--Archives., That All May Freely Serve (Association), Downtown United Presbyterian Church (Rochester, N.Y.)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Rochester (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340353
Title:
Women in Theology and Ministry Oral History Program oral history interview with Melva Costen.
Description:
Text transcribed from front of DVD: WTM Oral History Project - Melva Costen - October 1, 2008. Interview conducted at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Creator:
Moore, Mary Elizabeth, 1945- (interviewer), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators., Music--Religious aspects., Civil rights movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300798

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