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Interview (part one) conducted by Sonia Prescott with Edwin Ayres Bethea and Wendell Charles Love on July 3, 2023. Edwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama on May 15, 1931 to Monroe Ayres Bethea and Marzetta Pressley Bethea. Edwin spent his early childhood years with his grandparents and other paternal family members in Millers Ferry, Wilcox County, Alabama. Calvin B. Bethea (born 1863) and Annie McArthur Bethea (born 1868), Edwin’s paternal grandparents, were sharecroppers on the properties of Judge William Henderson in Millers Ferry. Edwin was educated in one of the six mission schools in Wilcox County supported by the Freedman’s Bureau and the United Presbyterian Church of North America. As his parents had been before him, Edwin was a student at the Millers Ferry Normal and Industrial School. In the interviews, Edwin provides a firsthand account of the Black Presbyterian experience in Wilcox County.
Creator:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)
Subject names:
Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359656
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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, 1959-, II (interviewee)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357740
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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
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On racial justice in the PC(USA) since 1981. Wesley Woo is a Presbyterian minister, raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, ordained in 1972. From 1983 to 1991 he served as Associate for Asian Church Development, and Associate for Racial Justice Ministries. From 1992 to 2002 he worked for the Center for Community Change. He is a member of Christ United Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, Calif.).
Creator:
Woo, Wesley Stephen, 1945- (interviewee)
Topics:
Asian American Presbyterians, Chinese American Presbyterians, Racism--Religious aspects--Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353409
Creator:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003. (interviewee), Costen, James Hutten, 1955-2018. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American Christian educators., African American clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348016
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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:
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, 1931-2023.
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 interview of Dick Lundy, 11 May 2022, on St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, Minn.) accompaniment of Rene Hurtado, a refugee from El Salvador. Dick Lundy is a Presbyterian minister. From 1969 to 1980 he was pastor of McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church (Champaign, Ill.). From 1980 to 1994 he was senior pastor of St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, Minn.).
Creator:
Lundy, Richard A., 1932-
Topics:
Sanctuary movement, El Salvador--History--1979-1992
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344180
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
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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
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
Description:
Joe Scrivner is Dean of Chapel at Stillman College (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and pastor of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Creator:
Scrivner, Joe (interviewee)
Subject names:
Stillman College, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism--Religious aspects--Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294115
Description:
Chris Glaser was raised as an American Baptist in North Hollywood, California. He joined the Presbyterian Church in 1970 while in college at California State University, Northridge. He was an ordained elder at First Presbyterian Church of Van Nuys. From 1976 to 1978, he served as the only openly gay member of the UPCUSA Task Force to Study Homosexuality. From 1977 to 1987, he served as the founding director of the Lazarus Project, a ministry of reconciliation between the church and the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles, located at West Hollywood Presbyterian Church. He also served as the second national coordinator and treasurer of Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns (PLGC) and as editor of its newsletters (More Light). Interview covers the 1978 General Assembly, the UPCUSA Task Force to Study Homosexuality, the Lazarus Project, and Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns (PLGC).
Creator:
Glaser, Chris. (interviewee), Skaggs, Nicholas A. (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (190th : 1978 : San Diego, Calif.), Lazarus Project., Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns., West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.), Glaser, Chris.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287983
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Magalene McClarrin is a Presbyterian educator. Born in Roanoke, Va., she graduated from Johnson C. Smith University in 1972 and was recrutied to teach English in the Wyandanch Union Fre School District on Long Island. She is a member of Memorial Presbyterian Church (Roosevelt, N.Y.) and has served as moderator of the Presbytery of Long Island committee on ministry.
Creator:
McClarrin, Magalene
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287167
Description:
Oral history, 2022, on growing up in Urmia and Golpashan, the genocide of Assyrians during the First World War, the transfer of mission schools to government control after 1934, her mother Lillie's career as a teacher, and her father Mishael's work as a Presbyterian pastor in Urmia and at Gaston Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.). Eden Naby is an Assyrian-Iranian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the Assyrian village of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. She has conducted research, taught and published on minority issues in countries from Turkey to Xinjiang. Her work on Afghanistan and on the Assyrians stands out in the field of cultural survival.
Creator:
Naby, Eden. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Assyrians--Iran--Urūmīyah--History--20th century., Assyrians--Crimes against--Iran--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286183
Description:
Annanda Barclay is an advocate for intersectional justice in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She has worked for LGBTQIA+ rights and served as Co-Moderator of More Light Presbyterians, a board member of the Spahr Reconciliation Initiative, and has helped plan pastoral candidate retreats with Parity (formerly Presbyterian Welcome). Barclay graduated with her M.Div. from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 2014. She is currently working as a pastor at Mission Bay Community Church (San Francisco, CA) and as interim chaplain at the University of the Redlands, while pursuing a full-time career in chaplaincy.
Creator:
Barclay, Annanda. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
More Light Presbyterians., Presbyterian Welcome (Organization), Barclay, Annanda.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians., African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286179
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Raymond Bagnuolo was born in November of 1951 and grew up in a Roman Catholic family in the Bronx, New York. Ray spent seventeen years teaching K-12 in the Ossining Public Schools in Ossining, New York. In 1995, he was introduced to That All May Freely Serve and began attending South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 2005, he was ordained as Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA), as an openly gay man. Ray accepted a leadership role at That All May Freely Serve in 2013 and spent several years traveling the country and advocating for a fully inclusive church.
Creator:
Bagnuolo, Raymond. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
That All May Freely Serve (Association), Bagnuolo, Raymond., Spahr, Jane Adams.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Ordination of lesbians., Ordination of gays.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286178
Description:
Michael Adee was a member and ordained Elder of Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio). He also served as the first Field Organizer (later called Executive Director) for More Light Presbyterians from 1999 to 2013.
Creator:
Adee, Michael. (interviewee), Wittrig, Elizabeth L. (interviewer)
Subject names:
More Light Presbyterians., That All May Freely Serve (Association), Spahr, Jane Adams., Adee, Michael.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286177

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