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SUMMARY:Congregational Library & Archives Open House 2023
DESCRIPTION:Our 2023 Open House celebrated the launch of the virtual exhibition\, Founding 56: The Congregational Library’s Original Collection\, which explores the history of the Congregational Library’s original collection of 56 books and how its ideas have shaped understandings of the Congregational story over the past 170 years. \n\nOpen House attendees had the opportunity to see many of these original 56 print and manuscript works\, including publications by the Mathers\, a 1723 commonplace book kept by a Harvard student\, and publications by nineteenth-century reform societies. Congregational Library & Archives staff were on hand to answer questions about both the original collection and the most recent 56 items added to our collection\, which were also on display. \nOther highlights of the evening included a presentation by Dr. Tricia Peone\, New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director\, on recent additions to NEHH collections\, including records from the First and Second Churches of Boston\, the Hingham First Parish records\, John Eliot’s sermon notes\, new Cotton Mather materials\, and more. There was also a short program exploring the history and importance of the Congregational Library & Archives’ collections past and present featuring CLA Board Chair Rich Elliott\, CLA Executive Director Dr. Kyle Roberts\, and CLA Archivist Zachary Bodnar\, who developed the Founding 56 digital exhibition.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/congregational-library-archives-open-house-2023
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
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SUMMARY:One Endeavor Society: A History of Doshisha University's Relationship with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
DESCRIPTION:New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Research Fellow Jocelyn Rice presented her research into the build environment of Doshisha University and its relationship to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in a lunchtime event at 14 Beacon. \nThe Meiji Era buildings that define Doshisha University’s Imadegawa Campus in Kyoto are a testament to the interwoven histories of the American Board and the prominent Japanese University. From the moment Doshisha’s founder\, Joseph Hardy Neesima\, articulated his vision for a Christian institution in Japan\, the two organizations have been inextricably linked. The campus’ early structures\, which were funded and designed by the ABCFM\, hold the distinction of being the first red brick structures in Japan’s ancient capital and are representative of late nineteenth-century missionary architecture in East Asia. \nOver the subsequent decades\, contributions from the ABCFM and Amherst College would fund the construction of buildings that evoked a distinctive New England collegiate aesthetic. A 1939 edition of the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly described one structure as “a New England institution set down in a Japanese environment.” By tracing the role style plays at the heart of this cultural exchange and drawing upon the Congregational Library & Archives’ rich collection of materials on the Japan Mission\, Rice examined the evolution of the ABCFM’s relationship with Doshisha from 1875 to 1949. \nSPEAKER BIO \nJocelyn Rice is an English PhD candidate and adjunct instructor at Boston College\, where she studies twentieth-century American culture with a focus on social and political reform. Jocelyn’s dissertation considers institutional change and higher education’s relationship to reform movements through the methodological insights of material culture studies. Her research has been supported by the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy Doctoral Fellowship and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Jocelyn graduated from Bates College with a degree in American history\, and she received her master’s degree in English literature from Boston College. Jocelyn has co-directed the Boston College English Pedagogy Seminar and serves as a proctor and first-year advisor at Harvard University.
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SUMMARY:Modern Day Pilgrims: The History of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference
DESCRIPTION:This discussion featured Rev. Dr. Ron Hamilton and Rev. Alwyn York\, editors of a new two volume edition of Modern Day Pilgrims: The History of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference\, published in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. \nThe first volume\, Modern Day Pilgrims: A Proud Heritage was first published in 2000 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. It tells a multi-dimensional history of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference and the diverse origins of the churches which founded it. This current volume is a revised and updated version of the original book intended to make the information available to a new generation. \nThe second volume\, Modern Day Pilgrims: A New Generation tells the story of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference in the quarter century since the 50th anniversary of the Conference in 1998. It presents the new ministry initiatives and changes in the structure of the Conference that took place in those years. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nRev. Dr. Ronald E. Hamilton has served as the CCCC Conference Minister since 2012 and previously worked as the Director of Church Multiplication from 2007 – 2012. He was founding pastor of the Woodbury Community Church in Woodbury\, MN where he served for nearly thirty years. He is deeply committed to the development of healthy congregations with a commitment to missional ministry. \nRev. Alwyn York currently serves as Conference Historian of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference\, and served a previous term 2006-2013. He writes a regular column on Congregational history for the newsletter of the C.C.C.C and has conducted seminars on historical topics at the Annual Meetings of the conference since 1995. He is the author of Rediscovering Congregational Foundations and of several articles published in The Banner of Truth magazine. He is retired from pastoral ministry after a thirty-four year career during which he served churches in Wisconsin\, New York\, Pennsylvania\, and Montana.
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