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This series contains graduate school papers, notes, and examination essays in the fields of feminist theology, Christian social teaching, Christian social ethics, and 19th Century American religious history; correspondence between Townes and her professors; PhD graduation and ordination correspondence and materials; as well as poems written in the early 1970's and a book of Townes genealogy.

This series contains records of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, including member's papers; records of commissions, committees, and departments; and conference and meeting records. The majority of the member's papers contain newspaper and magazine clippings regarding church unity, FCC organizational history, and correspondence. Some of these papers originally belonged to Rev. Rockland T. Homans, former student of Union Theological Seminary, rector of Grace Church in Queens, Canon of the Cathedral of Incarnation, founder of the Christian Unity Foundation and chairman of the board of Christian Social Service. The folder on the Bethlehem Steel Strike (1910) includes correspondence between Rev. Francis S. Hort and other local church leaders with men such as John A. Fitch, author of The Steel Workers, as well as Josiah Strong, chairman of the Social Services Commission. Conferences of note include the Greenwich Conference on Church Union and the National Conference on the Christian Way of Life, commonly referred to as "The Inquiry," which sought to foster discussion on "industrial, racial, and international problems in the hope of discovering whether there is a modern Christian way of living…." The majority of the papers in this section are comprised of minutes, reports and position papers.