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Interview of PC(USA) stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson II by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, June 2023.
Creator:
Nelson, , J. Herbert II, 1959- (interviewee)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357740
Description:
Jermaine Ross-Allam of the PC(USA) Center for Repair of Historic Harms, interviewed by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, May 29, 2023.
Creator:
Ross-Allam, Jermaine (interviewee), Priest, Margaret (interviewer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Center for the Repair of Historic Harms
Topics:
Racism--United States, Reparations for historical injustices, African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:354005
Description:
Oral history, 28 November 2023, on the history of Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.), its property struggles with the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, and the eventual reparative actions undertaken by the presbytery in 2023.
Creator:
Portis, Cedric (interviewee), Staniunas, David (interviewer)
Subject names:
Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:347416
Description:
Memorial service for Melva Costen, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Oscar McCloud presiding. Speakers include J. Herbert Nelson, Denise Anderson, Paul Roberts.
Creator:
Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Nelson, J. Herbert, II, 1959-, McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-, Anderson, T. Denise
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345474
Description:
Dan Smith was a Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister, longtime pastor of West Hollywood United Church of Christ. He was born 2 February 1953 in Buffalo, N.Y., and educated at SUNY Fredonia and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a conscientious objector during the American war in Vietnam. He was ordained in 1978 and spent six years installed at First Presbyterian Church (Geneva, N.Y.) before moving to Los Angeles. He took the pastorate of West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) in 1984, becoming the first openly gay minister installed in a PC(USA) congregation. During his tenure the congregation would spearhead AIDS ministry in West Hollywood, and build the Lazarus Project, dedicated to reconciling the church with its LGBTQ community. Smith retired in 2020. He died 12 June 2023.
Creator:
Smith, Daniel Edmund, 1953-2023. (dedicatee), West Hollywood United Church of Christ (Los Angeles, Calif.) (creator)
Subject names:
West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.), Smith, Daniel Edmund, 1953-2023.
Topics:
LGBTQ+ Presbyterians., Gay clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345470
Description:
Mary Jane Stickley oral history, 2 August 2023, on CROP support of agricultural education and animal husbandry at Jibrail, in Northern Lebanon, 1960-1961.
Creator:
Stickley, Mary Jane
Subject names:
Christian Rural Overseas Project
Topics:
Missions--Lebanon
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345458
Description:
Via North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCFaXaadLM
Creator:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-
Subject names:
North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345295
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
Description:
Oral history by Mark Davidson, former pastor of the Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.), on the congregation's advocacy for a just peace in Israel Palestine and their 2012 sponsorship of a city bus advertisement by the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation / U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
Creator:
Davidson, Mark
Subject names:
Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Topics:
Human rights advocacy--Palestine--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309420
Description:
Interview of J. Herbert Nelson II, taken 13 January 2023, on his time at Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Creator:
Nelson, J. Herbert II, 1959- (interviewee)
Subject names:
Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism, Racism--United States
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309059

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