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.
This series is arranged roughly alphabetically by material type.
Box 1 Folder 1
Organizational papers, 1905 -- 1917
Box 1 Folder 2
American Council of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches, 1920
Box 1 Folder 3
Christian Unity Foundation, 1910 -- 1917
Box 1 Folder 4
Church and Society, 1918 -- 1919
Box 1 Folder 5
Greenwich Conference on Church Union, 1949 -- 1959
Box 1 Folder 6
Interchurch World Movement, 1919 -- 1920
Box 1 Folder 7
Rev. Rockland T. Homans: Brick Church Lectures: Christian Unity Foundation, 1920 -- 1922
Box 1 Folder 8
Rev. Rockland T. Homans: Christian Unity Foundation, 1912 -- 1920
Box 1 Folder 9
Rev. Rockland T. Homans: The Federation of Churches and Christian Organizations in New York City, 1905 -- 1911
Box 1 Folder 10
Rev. Rockland T. Homans: Federal Council of Churches and Church Unity, circa 1905 -- 1921
Box 1 Folder 11-12
Administrative Committee, 1924 -- 1928
Box 2 Folder 1
Church and State Committee, 1932 -- 1934
Box 2 Folder 2
Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, 1941 -- 1948
Box 2 Folder 3
Commission on Church and Social Service: Bethlehem Steel Strike, 1910 -- 1971
Box 2 Folder 4
Commission on Evangelism and Life Service, 1925 -- 1927
Box 2 Folder 5
Commission on International Justice and Goodwill, 1922 -- 1927
Box 2 Folder 6
Commission on the Ministry, 1947
Box 2 Folder 7
Commission on Relations with Religious Bodies in Europe, 1926
Box 2 Folder 8
Commission on Worship: "How May Protestant Worship Become Ecumenical" by Roger Hazelton, 1947
Box 2 Folder 9
Committee on Direction, 1922 -- 1927
Box 2 Folder 10
Committee on Education for Peace, 1926
Box 2 Folder 11
Committee on Mexico, 1922 -- 1923
Box 2 Folder 12
Committee on Relations with Eastern Churches, 1927
Box 2 Folder 13
Committee on Relations with the Orient, 1925 -- 1927
Box 2 Folder 14
Committee on Slavery and Labor Conditions in Africa and Elsewhere, circa 1920 -- 1927
Box 2 Folder 15
Committee on Women's Work, 1925
Box 2 Folder 16
Denominational Peace Committees, Agencies, 1924 -- 1925
Box 2 Folder 17
Department of Race Relations, 1943 -- 1945
Box 2 Folder 18
Executive Committee, 1923 -- 1937
Box 2 Folder 19
United Stewardship Council, 1949
Box 2 Folder 20-21
Religious Liberty: Joint Committee on Religious Liberty, 1930 -- 1943
Box 3 Folder 1
Conference of Continental and American Christians, 1942
Box 3 Folder 2
Conference on Religious Research, 1945
Box 3 Folder 3-4
Greenwich Conference on Church Union, 1949 -- 1961
Box 3 Folder 5-8
Unbound Greenwich Conference on Church Union, 1946 -- 1959
Box 3 Folder 9
Meeting on "Peace Aims", 1942
Box 3 Folder 10-11
National Conference on the Christian Way of Life: "The Inquiry", 1923 -- 1924
Box 3 Folder 12
National Study Conference on the Churches and World Peace, circa 1923 -- 1924
Box 3 Folder 13
North American Ecumenical Conference, 1941
Box 3 Folder 14
Information Service, General Missions, 1947