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November 21, 2024
Hands of Christ Day at Divine Word Seminary, Illinois, 1964. A central table holds some of the food gifts which each participant brought for the Agape. [Pearl ID: islandora:356564].

In 2023, PHS was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 22,500 photographs and supporting documents from the Religious News Service Photograph...

November 18, 2024
Cover of special edition of Horizons featuring editor Barbara Roche, May 16, 1997. Pearl ID: islandora:379136 [RG 546, Box 2, Folder 18]

--by Maura Weil

The Barbara Roche Papers have been processed as RG 546, and the guide to the papers is now available: ...

November 14, 2024

Scattered throughout the PHS building on 425 Lombard Street are several museum items on display. If you've visited us, perhaps you've seen a few of them—like Cornelia, our small reed pump organ that sits on the first floor, welcoming researchers into our Reading Room.

But for those of you who are scattered across the country—across the globe, even—there may not be a chance to wander our halls or our Philadelphia city block. And so, we present: The Curio Cabinet. Here, you’ll find images and descriptions of some of the objects preserved and presented...

November 1, 2024

Eleanor and I met by accident.

It was an ordinary day. I was browsing Pearl for eye-catching content, humming along to whatever song dribbled from my computer’s speakers. Scrolling, scrolling, endlessly scrolling, until—a specter, a ghostly figure in white, prompted me to pause, my finger hovering atop my mouse.

Or—no. Not a ghost. A woman. She is wearing a white, long-sleeved gown that brushes the forest floor. She is leaning against the bark of a slim young tree, her hands behind her back. A...

October 24, 2024

***Harmful Content Alert: This story contains outdated and offensive language.***

For more than 50 years, the Presbyterians of Mexico and the United States have partnered in ministry in the US-Mexico border region. Navigating barriers of history, economics, and language, unearthing and redressing racism, church workers in the borderlands continue to labor in serviglesias—servant churches. 

In the late 1960s, the towns of Mexico’s northern border rapidly industrialized, drawing millions of people to jobs in the maquiladoras. Cities...

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