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Saving Creation, Celebrating Earth Day

April 11, 2013

From the Executive Director...

On April 22, Earth Day will be celebrated throughout the world.  Established in 1970, Earth Day reflects global concerns for the stewardship of the earth and its resources.  A Presbyterian who became known as the “father of environmental ethics” helped to shape the ethos of an environmental movement that began in the 1960s...

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American History
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PHS Cares: Making the Connection

April 11, 2013
John Wanamaker

On Tuesday, May 14th at 5:30pm, the staff of the Presbyterian Historical Society will be taking a tour and serving dinner to the homeless at the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission. This event is very dear to our hearts because it provides us the opportunity to give back not only to our...

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American History, News and Events
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Memories of Youth and the Westminster Fellowship

April 11, 2013

“Changing trains on the way to Grinnell Iowa – Westminster youth assembly,” Mora Mae Collins Gilley Scrapbook, 1950.

Many young Presbyterians in the 1940s and 1950s participated in Westminster Fellowship programs. Whether through summer camps, youth conventions, Bible...

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Summer, American History
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Presbyterians, Princeton Seminary, and Slavery: A Lecture by Dr. James Moorhead

February 11, 2013

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Presbyterians, Princeton Seminary, and Slavery

A lecture by Dr. James Moorhead, Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary; inspired by sections from his new book Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture

Friday, March 1, 2013, 7:00pm...

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"We Need Each Other in this Nation"

February 11, 2013
Martin Luther King in Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963. via National Archives and Records Administration, ARC ID#542014

As we celebrate Black History Month, I am excited to share an interesting discovery that came to light recently in the PHS archives. PHS archivist Bill Brock, while...

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Martin Luther King Jr, American History, Civil Rights
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