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Past PHS LIVE: Saving Your Congregation's Records

July 21, 2021

On July 15, 2021, Records Archivist David Staniunas hosted a webinar on Zoom and Facebook Live about preserving original records of PC(USA) congregations.

Almost uniquely among large national archives, PHS collects and preserves records at the local level, bringing in more than 200 churches’ records in more than 350 cubic feet every year. In this webinar, David Staniunas shared simple tricks and lifehacks for keeping your original records decently and in order before they are...

Author: 
Kristen
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PHS Live, Congregational Records, Digitization, Preservation
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Past PHS LIVE: Journal of Presbyterian History special issues on the dynamics of indigenization

June 21, 2021

On June 10, 2021 PHS welcomed editors from The Journal of Presbyterian History who discussed two special issues of the publication.

In 2021, The Journal of Presbyterian History focuses on “The Dynamics of Indigenization” in global Christian communities. JPH Senior Editors James H. Moorhead and Nancy J. Taylor were joined by guest editors Bonnie Sue Lewis, Heather J. Sharkey, and Connie Shemo. The special issues honor Lamin Sanneh (1942-2019), whose scholarship illuminated how Christianity “translated” into diverse global cultures, and feature current...

Author: 
Kristen
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PHS Live, Journal of Presbyterian History
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Past PHS LIVE: The David Sindt Papers and LGBTQIA+ History

May 11, 2021

On April 15, 2021 PHS welcomed Barry Smith, the historian of Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church in Chicago, who described his personal experience working with the David Sindt Papers and knowing David.

David Sindt (1940-1986) was the founder of Presbyterians for Lesbian/Gay Concerns, which is still working today as More Light Presbyterians. In the early 1970s, Sindt...

Author: 
Kristen
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PHS Live, LGBTQIA+ History
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Past PHS LIVE Women's History in the PHS Archive

May 11, 2021

On March 18, 2021 staff from the Presbyterian Historical Society shared stories from the PHS collections that highlight the extraordinary work of women in the church.

Click below to hear Allison Davis talk about the In Her Own Right digitization project; Sonia Prescott share about Tillie Paul Tamaree, the first Native American woman elected as an elder in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S...

Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
PHS Live, Womens History
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Past PHS LIVE: Rethinking the Value of Community Cookbooks

May 11, 2021

On March 31, Dr. Heather J. Sharkey and staff from the Presbyterian Historical Society explored PHS’s collection of community cookbooks.

To celebrate National Library Week (April 4-10, 2021), PHS staff and Dr. Heather J. Sharkey, Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted a webinar that discussed the...

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Kristen
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PHS Live
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