While in Harlem, dropped in unannounced on Church of the Master. Met their clerk of session Sibyl, and have their records on the way to PHS for imaging

Total support for Professor Ataie, who is contesting pretty clear academic repression surrounding Palestine archive.ph/5rDYh

Got to spend time with Rev Dr Derrick McQueen at St James PC Harlem. This is him and William Lloyd Imes (above)

Man there is enough actual racism inside mainline Protestantism that you don't need to make things up

Clover Presbyterian Church in North Carolina is Seeking Stated Supply. Find out more HERE: buff.ly/UeeVxkA

Applications are open until May 17 for the second cohort of CNP's Covenant Fellows program (September 2026–May 2027), which prepares seminary students and recent graduates to lead the PC(USA) in generous hospitality and faithful justice. Learn more and apply at l.covnetpres.org/fellows26.

You just love to see it thebristolcable.org/2026/04/univ... A group known as the Bristol Leftist Collective ran a campaign in early 2025 calling for Bristol’s students to boycott the app, which was developed by Ex Libris Group, an Israeli company headquartered in al-Maliha, Jerusalem.

On this April 20, we remember the guests from Chicago's Submarine Church, who spoke from the dais, and smoked from the dais on.soundcloud.com/xqj5hvVnSqOI...

On this April 20, we remember the guests from Chicago's Submarine Church, who spoke from the dais, and smoked from the dais on.soundcloud.com/xqj5hvVnSqOI...

Yes I did an Awful Coaching post for a college game in India 65 years ago

Ball handler has drawn the whole team, and that last defender is too close to the baseline to my eye, but he's already picked up his dribble! And his guys are ball-watching! Cut! Cut through the lane!

Hoop! at Baring Union Christian College (Batala, Punjab) 1960s, from RG 500 box 14 folder 27

300-year archival gold CD? Heavens, I haven't seen one of those in 20 years

That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing. To return the favour: this was my report on a meeting I attended in DC during my study leave in 2012- a snapshot of the PC(USA) divestment debate peterstudyleave.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/s...

Coons is Presbyterian. The Confessions he espouses do not support arming Israel

I hate the plastic economy

Second in my series of pieces on ecumenical mission in the mid-century, on the Presbyterian Church in Iran pcusa.org/news-storyte...

You might be surprised how few images of the American University of Beirut the shop has. Here is AUB's West Hall, in an October 1921 newsletter

Persian language New Testament, 1889, from papers of Lewis Esselstyn, Presbyterian evangelist and colporteur in Iran and Afghanistan (ax 23-0927)

“For a few minutes, no one understood what was happening. Then the ambulances began arriving.” Safa Bleik was at a hospital in Beirut when Israeli forces launched strikes across Lebanon yesterday. She shares what it was like in the emergency room:

Quick heads-up about shipping things: What happens when you put a framed item right up against the edge of a box?

Always good to see SWVA stuff in the stacks, 1970s photos from the PCUS Presbytery of Montgomery

The Syria Lebanon Partnership Network is sharing the appeal from March from Compassion Protestant Society, here: static1.squarespace.com/static/56c27...

Lebanon says 254 killed in Israeli strikes across country - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/msf-reports-massive-influx-wounded-beirut-hospital-after-strikes

Had to delete a post as poorly sourced! Once again thinking of our friends and constituents in Lebanon. This is Sahat al Shuhada, 1982

The death toll in Lebanon is now at 80 with over 200 injured at least according to the Lebanese Red Cross الصليب الأحمر اللبناني: 80 شهيدًا و200 مصاب جراء الغارات الإسرائيلية وسط استمرار عمليات الإنقاذ في مواقع القصف

Yes, Israel called today's operations "Eternal Darkness" www.ynetnews.com/article/buf6... bsky.app/profile/emil...

The American University of Beirut Medical Center, the main hospital in the area, is asking for blood donations of all blood types. The hospital is in emergency mode. Friends whose relatives are doctors there say they are all overwhelmed with patients

An appeal to an archives to bring in someone's personal papers is like a job interview. Like literally, it is helpful if you can send me the creator's resume

Clip from an NCC filmstrip, War Crimes: U.S. Priorities and Military Force, 1972 (Ax. 03-0614d)

The life of the PCT under the Kuomintang was circumscribed -- some people were exiled, some imprisoned, many banned from exiting the island -- but it didn't go away

The anti-democratic history of US allies isnsomething that I think USians skip over or just dont know about. I'm reminded that Presbyterian mission coworkers got kicked out of Taiwan in the 1980s for supporting student democracy activists, David Gelzer for sure, possibly Don Wilson too

First in a series of stories unpacking the varieties of post-WW2 decolonization of mission work: pcusa.org/news-storyte...

Wish I had seen this image before writing about flags in church pcusa.org/news-storyte...

Youth performance from a church in Baltimore, 1917, including people in blackface, giant American flag )(ax. 26-0317)

Please enjoy these ducks (Adams family papers, 26-0315)

"This body of records documents an area of high research value in the 20th c, and it extends or completes stuff that you have and is widely used" Great! "But I don't know if it is something you want??" Okay??

Nowruz Mubarak everybody 🌿

Okay I'll sign in to The World Cat but if you start sending me notifications about my favorite subject headings I'm coming to Dublin with a big sword

First in a series of stories unpacking the varieties of post-WW2 decolonization of mission work: pcusa.org/news-storyte...

I don't know if I emphasized this enough: collections work should bring delight and joy to others

That's one more place that will never hire me lol

WotC agrees: Adequate appraisal and selection reduces stewardship costs down the line

We got Angelus Novus into the book

Proud to have cowritten two chapters with David who has the insight to know which Derrida text speaks the best to our tradecraft

Once again LinkedIn-posting to say, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts is in hand 🗃📦🎉

A profession of external locus of control!!!!!!!

"We can't scan this b/c of copyright" "We might not be able to process it right away but at least it's in an archive" "We need to put this in [alphabetical order / neat piles / my favorite schema] so that it's useful to researchers" "We need to close it because b/c it might have privacy problems"

Jesse Jackson in the NYT magazine 1972, in a PCUS Office of Corporate and Social Ministries subject files run

Yes hahaha YES