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Description:
CORAR (Commission on Religion and Race) display at the National Assembly.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Ore.)
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Exhibitions.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5390
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Last Hope for Racial Rapprochement -- 'Christianity': Christianity holds the
last hope "for peaceful rapprochement between white and non-white peoples of
the globe," the famed German Protestant churchman, Dr. Martin Niemoeller
(center), declared in an address before the policy-making General Board of
the National Council of Churches at Portland, Ore. Greeting Dr. Niemoeller is
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, president
of the NCC, and at left is Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy, NCC general secretary.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Espy, R. H. Edwin, 1908-, Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4936
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Description:
"Death of a church" protest at 179th General Assembly, Portland, Oregon, 22
May 1967.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002.
Topics:
Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4869
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"Death of a church" protest at 179th General Assembly, Portland, Oregon, 22
May 1967.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002.
Topics:
Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4868
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Description:
"Death of a church" protest at 179th General Assembly, Portland, Oregon, 22
May 1967.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002.
Topics:
Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4867
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Description:
"Death of a church" protest at 179th General Assembly, Portland, Oregon, 22
May 1967.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002.
Topics:
Demonstrations--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4866
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Elder Rebecca Davisson of Los Angeles presents amendment during debate on
Church and Society report. Another commissioner awaits his turn. Lower left,
a page is ready to rush amendment to desk of recording clerk on stage.
[Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p. 15.]
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Davisson, Rebecca.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4313
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Description:
Led by the Moderator, commissioners rise in thanksgiving and sing "Now Thank
We All Our God" following successful vote which ratified Overture I embodying
the text of the Confession of 1967. [Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p.
17.]
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Smathers, Eugene Feland, 1907-1968.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4312
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The Rev. Eugene Smathers is welcomed to stage of 179th General Assembly by
retiring moderator, Ganse Little, and (left) Stated Clerk William P.
Thompson. [Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p. 19.]
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Smathers, Eugene Feland, 1907-1968., Thompson, William P., 1918-, Little, Ganse, 1904-1990.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4311
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Description:
The Rev. Richard E. Anderson, pastor of East Vine Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Knoxville, Tenn., was appointed by Smathers to serve as Vice-Moderator.
[Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p. 18.]
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Anderson, Richard Edwards, 1909-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Tennessee--Knoxville.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4310
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Description:
Critical moment in the debate on Church and Society report is reflected in
the faces of committee members. From left: Standing Committee chairman Robert
McAfee Brown, secretary of Office of Church and Society, Robert Bulkley, and
pastors D. Evor Roberts (Swarthmore, Pa.) and Edward L. R. Elson (Washington,
D.C.) [ Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p. 25.]
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-2001., Bulkley, Robert DeGroff., Roberts, D. Evor (David Evor), 1919-2002., Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4309
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At late evening session, members of Church and Society Standing Committee
vote on an early draft of the Declaration of Conscience. [Presbyterian Life,
June 15, 1967, p. 27.]
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.)
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4307
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Description:
President John Howard of Lewis and Clark College addresses groundbreaking
ceremonies attended by hundreds of commissioners, for new chapel. Signs
carried by students (rear) complain $600,000 chapel is too costly. At
Assembly session, president emeritus Morgan Odell explained that the new
chapel will cost less than other buildings that have been erected recently on
the suburban Portland campus. [Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p. 39.]
Subject names:
Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.), Howard, John R., 1922-2013., Odell, Morgan S. (Morgan Samuel), 1894-1984., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.)
Topics:
Rites and ceremonies--Oregon--Portland., Chapels--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4300
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Description:
Thousands of Portland residents joined commissioners for a concert by the
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Orchestra was en route
home from a tour of Japan. Audience responded to concert with standing
ovation. [Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1967, p. 39.]
Subject names:
Philadelphia Orchestra., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.), Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985.
Topics:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Confession of 1967.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4299
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Description:
Among visitors lending Assembly an international accent were (from left):
Mrs. Diana Tumbekala-Ratulangi from Indonesia; Mrs. Isabel deUrdaneta,
Colombia; and Mrs. Jean Jolobe, South Africa. They and other women on their
team were in the United States to attend National Meeting of United
Presbyterian Women and a consultation of Church Women United. [Presbyterian
Life, June 15, 1967, p. 39.]
Subject names:
Tumbekala-Ratulangi, Diana., deUrdaneta, Isabel., Jolobe, Jean., United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1967 : Purdue University), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (179th : 1967 : Portland, Or.)
Topics:
Presbyterian women.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4298
