Douglas Glenn Adams (1945 April 12 - 2007 July 24) was professor of Christianity and the Arts at Pacific School of Religion for 31 years and member of the core Graduate Theological Union faculty. He was an international scholar in...
A collection had been given to the GTU Library ca. 1976-77, but there was no documentation on the original gift. Efforts to contact the leadership of the Pacific Region to confirm the gift of the collection were unsuccessful until 1997...
Organizing proposal; study papers; memos, brochure
This collection includes Ms. Bennett's papers which have to do with her interest in peace issues and the movements to end the war in Vietnam; and, following the end of the war, the issues of women's ordination -- the place...
The Berkeley Free Church (South Campus Community Ministry), 1967-1972, Richard York, Pastor, operated a service ministry to the Berkeley, CA, Telegraph Ave. area transients, runaways and hippies. Services included a referral switchboard, counseling, health care, crash pads, and free food....
This collection contains organization records of the Berkeley-Albany Church Women United: scrapbooks and folders with newspaper clippings, minutes, bulletins, reports, fliers and other indications of activities.
The GTU Bibliographical Center existed from 1963-69. It was essentially a centralized book ordering, cataloging and processing center for the GTU schools. Subgroup C contains all existing records of the Center. The records appear to be far from complete and...
Art and other special exhibits have been displayed at the Graduate Theological Union Library since it was opened in 1981. This collection contains records from the the Trustees Aesthetics Committee and the art curator's office. Materials include flyers, slides and...
Richard F. Boeke served as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, California, 1973-1995. During his ministry, he was involved in the Howard Thurman Educational Trust, the International Association for Religious Freedom, and the Uniquest Foundation among other groups...
This collection contains working files, personal papers, correspondence, newsclippings, periodicals, audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, computer disks.
Donald G. Brockett, 1937-1986, was a Congregational minister. While a seminarian at Andover Newton Theological School, Brockett participated in efforts to integrate the Boston public schools, volunteering as a teacher in the Freedom School Movement in 1964. He served various...
This collection consists of Evelyn Berger Brown's professional papers from the mid-1960's to her retirement in the mid-1970's. There is very little personal material. A large portion of the collection consists of material concerning her extensive community lecturing, from the...
Robert McAfee Brown, 1920-2001, was a Christian theologian, ethicist, teacher, author, preacher, and advocate for peace and justice in social, economic, and gender issues. The collection contains published and unpublished material by R.M. Brown and by various other authors.
The bulk of the collection reflects Bruner's collecting material in his retirement, ca. 1960's-1978. The Correspondence series provides extensive information through personal narrative from Protestant missionaries with various denominations all over the world.
The material had no original order. It is here arranged chronologically. This collection represents a part of Buchler's total original material. Further materials are located: 1) (P. O. Box 77603, San Francisco, CA 94107: 415-882-7092): interviews covering experiences in Vienna...
This collection of minutes and annual reports was donated to the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) by the American Baptist Seminary of the West in May of 2005. Files pertaining to the development of the Baptist church in California were selected...
Administrative records, meeting minutes, correspondence, conference planning files and proceedings, collected articles, newsletters and journals, brochures, lectures, presentations, audiotapes (cassettes), and videotapes (VHS).
The collection was packed in boxes and shipped by Center staff when the Center moved office locations in 1995. The order here is representative of the inherent order in the Center office. The sections titled here "Early Organization Files, 1977-81"...
This collection documents the history of the Center for the Study of New Religious Movements from 1977-1983.
The collection came to Archives from the Center in the order preserved here. The CWR office kept their records chronologically by academic year then alphabetical within each year. The records were kept by a succession of staff persons, therefore the...
The Protestant Church Commission for Japanese Service was set-up in response to Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-American citizens and aliens evacuated from the U.S. West Coast and relocated to centers in the interior. The Commission acted as a conduit...
The collection contains records about evangelical Christians and the Jesus movement in Berkeley from 1970 through the eighties. Materials primarily represent the Christian World Liberation Front (CWLF) and the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP), but also include materials on the Bay...
Albert Gleaves Cohen served as campus minister with United Ministries in Higher Education at California State University Fullerton (1965-69) and California State University in Los Angeles (1969-97). The collection contains his activities on campus and off for civil rights, minority...
The collection contains minutes of board meetings, administrative records, and program files of the Cooperative Ministries in Higher Education of Northern California and Nevada.
The collection seems to have come from Elsie Thomas Culver to the Center for Women and Religion at the GTU ca. 1979. In 1992, the collection was transferred from CWR to the GTU Archives still in its original boxes and...
Manuscript and audio visual collection of Dody H. Donnelly (June 29, 1920 - ), a professor at several seminaries within Graduate Theological Union and Catholic leader in women's rights, organization and prison reform. In 1971 she became the first full...
The collection originated as the Frankl Library and Memorabilia founded by Robert C. Leslie in 1975. Leslie, Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, (1954-82) had met and studied with Frankl in 1961. He...
Chris Glaser (1950 - ) is an activist for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights, especially within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). As writer and speaker, his topics include the church, the Bible and homosexuality: the spiritual gifts of the...
The material is arranged as received from the donor. File folders retain the original headings, with the exception of loose materials received February 24, 2009. Nearly all items reflect Prof. Gold's personal involvement in the GTU. GTU 90-5-03, GTU Oral...
This collection contains the accreditation files for the Graduate Theological Union from 1966 on.
The GTU library building was constructed in two phases: Phase I (1979-1981), during which the basement and level one were built, and Phase II (1985-1987), during which levels two and three were completed. The library was renovated in 2000-2001 and...
This collection contains original papers, correspondence, photocopies, publications, manuscripts, audiotapes, videotapes, photographs by and about Bede Griffiths.
The collection contains notes, interviews, correspondence, pamphlets and other materials used by Hadsell to write A Sacred Space: The Story of Westminster House, Berkeley, a history of the Presbyterian campus ministry at University of California, Berkeley in the 20th century.
This collection includes personal papers, working production files, photographs, slides, audio tapes, tapestries, drawings, oil paintings, watercolor paintings
This small collection consists of biographical materials of the Henry family (C.F. Henry, Rena M. Henry, his wife, Helen Henry, daughter and other family members), and Henry's records of marriages, correspondence, sermons, class lectures and information on Throop Memorial Universalist...
This collection contains correspondence, financial correspondence, addresses, notes and sermons
Harland E. Hogue, 1908-1999, was professor of homiletics and church history at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA. His oral history interviews discuss his life, career, experiences, people, and general observations at PSR beginning in 1954. The interviews also...
These cards have been collected by Library Staff from books donated as gifts to the GTU Library. If, while processing the book for inclusion in the library collection, a holy card is found, it is added to the collection. There...
This collection contains mimeographed church worship bulletins and newsletters.
The collection consists of correspondence and book lists sent between Judah and Felter at Pacific School of Religion, the seminary libraries participating in loaning the books, and representatives in the camps coordinating the book collections in their respective camps. The...
Thomas Starr King (1824 - 1864) was a Unitarian and Universalist minister and popular lecturer. Son of a Universalist minister who served in New York and Massachusetts, he also served churches in the Boston area. He accepted a call to...
Some of the letters from von Hugel have been published in Baron Friedrich von Hugel, Selected Letters, 1896-1924, Bernard Holland, editor (1933 edition). The correspondence with Maritain centers around bringing him to the University of Chicago to give a lecture...
Marna McKenzie was hired in 1984 to direct the Developing Ministries project for the Cooperative Ministries in Higher Education of Northern California and Nevada. She coordinated resources to create campus ministry programs with local church support in schools within Northern...
This collection includes personal papers, correspondence, speeches, articles both about and by J. McNeill, typed manuscripts of three books, Blondel research and thesis, video and audio cassettes, engagement calendars, books and computer discs.
The collection contains photocopies of significant 18th century Methodists hymnals with notes and indexes of the hymns by Professor of Music Church Music Norman Carleton Mealy.
The collection contains the working, task, project, and correspondence files and materials concerning the career and ministry of Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, an English professor and advocate of women's and gay and lesbian rights. Raised a fundamentalist Christian, she became active...
The collection of working files collected by Dr. Lebacqz in her capacity as a member of the Commission, came directly from the donor and was contained in one file cabinet and several boxes. The cabinet contained the Commission's working files,...
Original papers (carbon copies, photocopy); transcripts of taped discussions; published proceedings; correspondence.
The National Sanctuary Defense Fund was established in 1984 to raise funds for the legal defense of sanctuary workers and refugees from Central America. Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala in particular were arrested and indicted during the 1980s for...
The collection pertains almost exclusively to the New Religious Movements. There is a small amount of personal material that reflects Dr. Judah's interest in tennis and ballroom dancing. The 1994 interview is contained in the personal material. This interview is...
The Vertical Files Collection forms part of the New Religious Movements Research Collections in the Graduate Theological Union Archives. They were collected over a 22-year period by successive library staff people. The collection includes such materials as correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets,...
There is political campaign material (pamphlets, brochures, newsletters, monographs, flyers, bumper stickers) directly related to Proposition 14 from church bodies and political organizations. Also included are materials on race relations and the civil rights movement throughout the United States.
Noffke's papers include administrative materials along with 2,000 audiotapes and cassettes that reflect his role as producer and radio host.
The North Phoenix Corporate Ministry was a group of Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant Congregations in northern Phoenix, AZ who worked together in areas of education, worship, social concern, creative arts, and communication. Included are administrative files, program files, financial records,...
Administration, organization, and financial records.
This collection consists of GTU photographs taken and collected primarily for the purpose of publishing them in the GTU newsletters Ecumenical Associates News and later Currents, as well as other publications such as the GTU View Book and GTU Catalog,...
This collection has been taken from the files of the Dean's Office and made a separate collection due to the unique place of the series and its material in the history of the GTU. File folders 1 - 9, 1976-85,...
John Dillenberger became assistant dean of the GTU in 1963 and served as dean from June 1, 1963 to July 1971. He held the additional title of GTU President from 1967 until he left these administrative posts in 1971. The...
The collection was given originally to the GTU Library in the late 1970's by Daniel O'Hanlon. It was not officially deeded to the GTU Archives until 1992. Originally in cardboard cartons, the collection was reboxed and moved at least twice...
The class sought to interview persons who were instrumental in the formation and early years of the GTU. These persons were all living in Berkeley or California at the time of the interviews. When the collection was given, Ms. Zikmund...
This collection was put together in 1977 at the Graduate Theological Union Library by then Acting Librarian David Green. He published a letter in Episcopal diocesan newspapers stating that the Library was collecting on this important subject, and requesting any...
Organization files, program files, resource files (papers, articles, periodicals, and monographs), photographs, slides, audiotapes, videotapes, computer disks.
Material gathered or generated for researching, compiling, and writing "Profiles in Belief" including: correspondence, drafts of material written by Piepkorn, copies of information from books or other sources, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, periodicals, periodical and newspaper articles, photographs, bibliographies, etc.
Administrative and project records, financial records, collected print resources, photographs
working and organization files, correspondence, published material (monographs, periodicals, pamphlets), newsclippings, photographs
This extensive oral history includes interviews from 79 scholars who discuss the founding of the Graduate Theological Union and issues in theological education before, after and during the 1960s. The interviews were conducted in 1993-94 by Ray F. Kibler III,...
Collection consists of newspaper articles, periodical articles, and sermons reporting or commenting on the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana, November 1978. The Graduate Theological Union Library staff solicited and collected donations from various sources.
An oral history of the sanctuary movement based on interviews with religious and lay leaders in the Bay Area conducted by Eileen Purcell during 1997-1998. The interviews cover the beginning of the sanctuary movement during the Vietnam Conflict (1971-1972) and...
Rev. Winfred B. Schaller was a leader in the creation of the Church of Lutheran Confession (CLC). He served as editor of the CLC's first periodical, , from June 1958 until he was forced to resign in August 1970. He...
The material was collected from the donor's office. Material was received in 3-ring binders, file folders, and loose. See container listing for arrangement notations. The majority of the collection concerns the sanctuary movement for Central American refugees. Sanctuary for military...
The Scientology at the Marina records include administrative correspondence, handwritten notes, financial records, institutional records, educational courses, pamphlets, typescript manuscripts, transcripts of lectures, certificates, lists, newsletter copy, periodicals, published materials, and ephemera, including flyers.
Collection consists of journal articles, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings; complete issues of magazines and journals; calendars; posters; audio/visual materials; glossaries; bibliographies. Limited correspondence to Spretnak. Limited notes made by Spretnak.
Starhawk is a pioneer in and advocate of the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion; a peace and justice activist; and a veteran and continued organizer in progressive movements, committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality...
The papers document Donald C. Stone's work with Ornstein and Swencionis on the Outcome Project, and the development of his doctoral research, including his various publications on the human potential movement, up to the completion of his doctoral dissertation.
"The Sunday Before: Sermons by Pacific Coast Pastors of the Japanese Race on the Sunday before Evacuation to Assembly Centers in the Late Spring of 1942" includes sermons delivered by Protestant ministers prior to the forced evacuation of Japanese and...
These materials were donated to the Graduate Theological Union by Seda S. Suzuki, widow of Lester E. Suzuki. The collection consists of three drafts of his doctoral thesis Ministry in the Assembly and Relocation Centers of World War II, as...
Margaret Palmer, 1908-2004, was born in Oakland, Calif. She was a pioneer in the field of sacred dance in America. A daughter of a Congregational minister, the family moved to Honolulu in 1917, where she learned creative dance in school....
This collection was processed in two separate sections. The first section had been partially processed and cataloged by library staff. The second section processed two years later when four boxes of unprocessed material were discovered after a shelf move. The...
Organizational materials, records of activities, photographs, negatives and slides.
The staff collected published material (pamphlets, flyers, position papers, sermons, newspaper and journal articles, brochures) from government departments (United States and North Vietnam); national denominations; local, national, and international organizations; and individuals. Each item bears a yellow sticker with accession...
Personal and professional files, photographs, slides, negatives, and buttons relating to the personal and professional life of Aubrey Richard Weatherly.
Robert Whitaker was a Baptist minister who served churches in Seattle; Salem, Oregon; Oakland and Los Gatos, California. He was politically active throughout his ministry. participating in socialism, communism, pacifism, the labor movement, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He...
This collection had been in storage several years before processing; moved several times, and handled by various people over the years, including Wilbur's daughter Elizabeth. Materials for the collection came in groups of boxes or individual items from various sources...
This collection is reported to have come from Aaron Ungersma who was on the faculty of the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Attempts to contact Dr. Ungersma have yielded nothing, so there is no documentation on this collection. It is thought...
The collection was packed up from Rev. Yinger's garage at his home in Sun City West, AZ and shipped to the GTU Archives. The arrangement is as close to what Rev. Yinger kept as possible....