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PHS Welcomes New Staff

October 18, 2023

The Presbyterian Historical Society happily welcomes Maura Weil to our staff! Maura joins us as an Archives Technician. As a member of the Technical Services team, Maura will help catalog books, periodicals, and archival collections in the Society’s online databases.

Maura grew up in Philadelphia and enjoys reading in her free time. She interned at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and earned her master’s degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University.

Her first day was October 16. Welcome,...

Author: 
Kristen
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News and Events, Staff
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Now Processed: Advisory Council on Church and Society Records

September 28, 2023
Previous chairpersons and directors of the Advisory Council on Church and Society reunite at Ghost Ranch, August 2002. Pearl ID: islandora:344190 [RG 540, Box 106, Folder 6].

The Advisory Council on Church and Society Records have been processed as Record Group 540, and the guide to the records is now available:...

Author: 
Nick
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Collections, Archival Processing
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Prophetic Witness: Dean Lewis and the Advisory Council on Church and Society

September 26, 2023

--by Nick Skaggs and David Staniunas

At a 1987 consultation held at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, Dean Lewis, head of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) office charged with developing social policy, fielded a question about the theological basis of implementing statements of the General Assembly. Under what basis does the Church act in the world?

Lewis answered, in part: “It comes from the fundamental...

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PHS Staff
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Presbyterian Heritage, Collections, Archival Processing
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Interim Stated Clerk Bronwen Boswell and the Women Who Paved the Way

September 22, 2023
Left: Margaret Towner, 1956. [Pearl ID: 83470]. Right: Bronwen Boswell, undated. Image courtesy of the Presbyterian News Service.

In July, the Rev. Bronwen Boswell was appointed as the Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PC(USA), filling the term of the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II. In doing so, Boswell became...

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McKenna
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PHS Welcomes New RNS Project Archivists

September 20, 2023

The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to welcome RNS Project Archivists Isabella Fidanza and Megan Genovese to the PHS staff. Isabella and Megan are part of the team digitizing the Religions News Service photographs.

Isabella (she/her) has a background in English, International Area Studies, and a M.A. in publishing. Driven by her deep appreciation for the arts and cultural sector, she has explored careers in museum public programming, academic libraries, and archives. She is currently pursuing a certificate in Digital Archives & Records Management from San Jose State...

Author: 
Kristen
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Religious News Service, News and Events
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