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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:
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:
Pride Greeting by Janie Spahr, 2021.
Description:
"A Pride Greeting from the Rev. Dr. Jane Spahr," June 26, 2021.
Creator:
Spahr, Jane Adams. (speaker)
Subject names:
Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Gay pride celebrations.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179815
Title:
Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio) Pride worship service, 2020.
Description:
Pride service at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio on June 14, 2020. Guest preachers are Michael Adee, the Rev. Dr. Erin Swenson, and the Rev. Annanda Barclay.
Creator:
Barclay, Annanda. (speaker), Adee, Michael. (speaker), Swenson, Erin. (speaker)
Subject names:
Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Gay pride celebrations.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179814
Title:
Debate at the Lane Seminary, Cincinnati
Description:
The account of the debate is in the form of a letter from H. B. Stanton.
Creator:
Thome, James A. (James Armstrong), 1813-1873. (author), Cox, Samuel H. (Samuel Hanson), 1793-1880. (author), Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887. (author), Cornish, Samuel E. (Samuel Eli), 1795?-1858. (author)
Subject names:
American Colonization Society., American Anti-Slavery Society., Lane Theological Seminary.
Topics:
Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., African Americans--Colonization--Africa.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176446
Title:
The '95 Illuminations.
Description:
The '95 Illuminations presented by Voices of Sophia at the 207th Meeting of the General Assembly, July 16, 1995.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (207th : 1995 : Cincinnati, Ohio.)
Topics:
Women in the Presbyterian Church--History., Feminist theology--United States--20th century., Women's rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146333
Title:
The General Assembly daily news.
Description:
The General Assembly daily news, series of 1975, no. 3, May 19, 1975. Cover story focuses on the Assembly voting to not recognize the Presbyterian Gay Caucus as an organization.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (187th : 1975 : Cincinnati, Ohio), Presbyterians for Gay Concerns., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Gay rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:144564
Title:
Tricia Dykers-Koenig correspondence regarding Jane Spahr, November-December 1992.
Description:
Tricia Dykers-Koening's correspondence related to the Permanent Judicial Commission of the General Assembly's decision to deny Rev. Jane Adams Spahr's call to be co-pastor at Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York on the basis of her sexual orientation. Also mentions Lisa Larges who was also denied to serve by the commission. Written by Dykers-Koenig and other congregation members at Noble Road Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Letters are addressed to Rev. Spahr, to the session and congregation at Downtown United Presbyterian Church, to Rev. W. Clark Chamberlain who dissented the commission's vote, and to the Permanent Judicial Commission of the General Assembly directly. Also includes a letter of gratitude written by Rev. Spahr to her "friends at Noble Road Presbyterian Church."
Creator:
Koenig, Patricia Dykers, 1954- (author), Spahr, Jane Adams. (author)
Subject names:
Noble Road Presbyterian Church (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Downtown United Presbyterian Church (Rochester, N.Y.), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (209th : 1997 : Syracuse, N.Y.), Spahr, Jane Adams., Larges, Lisa., Chamberlain, W. Clark., Koenig, Patricia Dykers, 1954---Archives.
Topics:
Homophobia--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland Heights (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:144558
Title:
Homosexuality, homophobia and you.
Description:
A special edition of the Bell Tower News which interprets homosexuality and homophobia for pastors and other Presbyterian leaders. Published by College Hill Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Features introductory and closing letters from Rev. Jerry R. Kirk, Co-Pastor.
Subject names:
Kirk, Jerry R., Presbyterians United for Biblical Concerns (U.S.), College Hill Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Topics:
Homophobia--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:144420
Title:
Ohio ministers' letters, 1820-1851.
Description:
Collection consists of 16 letters, many between Presbyterian ministers, chiefly Samuel Crothers of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chillcothe Presbytery. Topics include meetings of presbytery, family news, and abolitionist sentiment in the Synod of Cincinnati. Samuel Crothers, Presbyterian minister and antislavery activist, was born October 20, 1783 in Chambersburg, Pa. He attended preparatory school in Lexington, Ky. and trained in theology with John Mason of New York, N.Y. In 1820, Crothers became pastor of Presbyterian Church (Greenfield, Ohio). He preached in favor of temperance, opposed the Old School / New School schism, and preached and wrote extensively against slavery. Crothers died in Oswego, Ill., July 2, 1856.
Creator:
Crothers, Samuel, 1783-1856. (author), Gilliland, James, 1769-1845. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Presbytery of Chillicothe., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Synod of Cincinnati.
Topics:
Antislavery movements--Ohio.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:10501
Title:
Assembly delegates.
Description:
Assembly delegates Ed Smith, Rochester, N.Y.; Virginia Nebelsick, Emery, S.D., and Kyung Ho Lee of Seoul, South Korea, read news of war in Kyung's homeland.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7336
Title:
Special assembly session on academic freedom.
Description:
In special assembly session on academic freedom, Californian Charles Hedges states his views. Other subjects discussed were: segregation, marriage, and United Nations.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7298
Title:
Government and church leaders at World Order Parley, Cleveland, Ohio.
Description:
Government and church leaders at World Order Parley, Cleveland, O.--Among principals at the Fifth World Order Study Conference here were these four government and church leaders. Shown left to right are: Methodist G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington, D.C.; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg of St. Louis, Mo., president of the National Council of Churches; and Ernest A. Gross of New York, chairman of the four-day meeting and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The conference was sponsored by the National Council's Department of International Affairs of which Mr. Gross is chairman. Its theme was "Christian Responsibility on a Changing Planet."
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., World Order Study Conference (5th : 1958 : Cleveland, Ohio), Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959., Oxnam, G. Bromley (Garfield Bromley), 1891-1963., Dahlberg, Edwin T. (Edwin Theodore), 1892-1986., Gross, Ernest A. (Ernest Arnold), 1906-1999.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6974

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