The Unification Commission voted Thursday to recommend to the 227th General Assembly (2026) that in-person gatherings of the 228th General Assembly be hosted by el Presbiterio de San Juan in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 11-22, 2028. Read more: pcusa.org/news-storyte... #PCUSA

Just in alongside records of Chapel Lane PC Midland MI, receipts from my shop for their 1980 and 1997 deposits of records

Whoa thank you First Presbyterian Church Morgantown for lending space to APBP, so cool

Lord forgive me, I'm about to go back to the old me (read Gerald Ham again)

Anyway, as my constituents do their own long historical unpackings, I keep saying You should feel joy! You can make a contribution to a world of justice and wisdom! Do that

Not everything is worth saving! Fortunately for professional archivists, we have a whole literature of appraisal, including the practical advice from SAA's (forthcoming, 2026) Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Now up, an short excursion into the really interesting NCC assembly in Detroit in 1969: pcusa.org/news-storyte...

I'm pleased to share my latest article, available open access. I wrote about the long aftermath of a nineteenth-century war in central Mali, and how an intimate approach to historical research and writing can yield new understandings of time and space in African history. doi.org/10.1017/hia....

Same deal, only with reversed political polarity, for expressing "difficulty" "pain" or "shame" toward the work of doing history

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Reminded of Charles Yerkes, pastor of Tompkins Square, Christian socialist, casualty of AIDS

Hell yeah justice for Jorge and Free Them All

With total respect to Mother Bethel AME where I got seconded out to today, peak thing I got to look at was their Sanborn fire insurance maps, 1921, with edits glued in by hand up through 1945, insane documents

Right now I'd like to shout out the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Wrapper for a can of early June peas, part of the histories & scrapbooks of the Presbytery of Minnesota Valleys

Sahat al Shuhada, Beirut, 1982 digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/46...

The National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon (NESSL) is sharing information from the Lebanese Center for Research and Development on the ongoing costs of Israeli violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon

Chicago Presbytery issues call to action in face of ICE raids The presbytery seeks "creative action and stubborn hope" and vows to follow the lead of those bearing the brunt of the violence.

So I think the works of people when they organize into groups have an innate dignity. And when I see just "pile in a box",, I can deal with that, that's what we train for. But it makes me think *you* don't think your organization has worth

ICE is in #Oakland! There is a request for a solidarity presence from schools during pick up hours. Harriet Tubman preschool, 800 33rd street early dismissal Picket 11am- 11:45 Hoover Elementary 890 Brockhurst street entrance Picket 12:30 - 2pm YMCA preschool 3265 market Picket 2pm - 5pm

Ain al Hilweh camp, March 1951 digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/38...

Spent a little time at the presbytery gathering up in Chestnut Hill, got to hear the mods

Saw the Depeche Mode, Music for the Masses style landscape of the Louisville Riverwalk

Got to spend a little time at Shawnee Presbyterian Church (Louisville, Ky.) the other day, and our Communications Unit made some hay out of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWln...

Transcriber is stealing valor for my surname

Had a good hour this morning with Shawnee Presbyterian Church's clerk of session Dianne White, picked up records for deposit and digitization

as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia

Once again, getting an old audio cassette to play back by frankensteining a new little piece of felt, on a platform of white rubber, so that the tape stays in touch with the playback head

Once again, getting an old audio cassette to play back by frankensteining a new little piece of felt, on a platform of white rubber, so that the tape stays in touch with the playback head

My latest article, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," was just published in the Journal of Palestine Studies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4MBPN...

One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies. @esmat.bsky.social 🗃️

James Forman addressing the General Assembly of the NCC in Detroit, the Wednesday morning of their meeting in 1969 "Brothers and sisters, FBI agents"

Got a 16mm motion picture in a rusty can, and I've got a spare polyester core and an ancient spooling device, so it's time to do low-wattage film intervention

Christmas in Batouri, Cameroon, 1953, from the Greig family papers

As we at @pressfreedom.bsky.social have argued, Israel must allow independent access to Gaza. The ban on journalists from outside the strip is unprecedented. www.cjr.org/news/israel-...

Look at my famous liberal UTS theologian dawg we're not going to make it

Oh my shop may be cooking up processing work on a cool and good personal records batch that I curated in here six years ago, and I feel like

From records of the 1969 General Assembly of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., flyer from the Youth of Amerika

"I love history, I used to work down the courthouse" Ah yeah "I found a book there from 1848 had all the dockets and trials listed" Oh cool "And I donated it to the public library" Oh! "I took it from the court house" Oh sibling no

[Dorothy] Day was "nourished by so many odd and beautiful things" — freshly rolled cigarettes, her black cat named Social Justice, the smell of perfume, a piano song, and Dostoyevsky books. sojo.net/articles/cul...

It's good that we live in an age where we have multiple sources of biographical information on people, because this bio note does not include any mention of how this civil rights leader died www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findi...

Oh the Mellons are in the news, that always reminds me of the Mellons' Fire Escape, East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Li...

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

ICE shot Pastor Jorge Bautista in the face with a flashbang grenade at the Coast Guard base in Oakland, CA. If you look at the second photo, it looks like the pipsqueak either peed himself or ejaculated after the shooting. I am trying to find out of the pastor is okay. This is bad.

I don't think we need to make the metadata better

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

For my friends in Western MA -- St. John's is raising funds so that they can serve as an emergency winter shelter. They need about 12K to get up to code. These are amazing people who do God's work and every dollar will serve our siblings. www.stjohnsnorthampton.org/product/give...