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Inventory of the Berkeley FreeChurch Collection, 1959-1976

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Inventory of the Berkeley Free Church Collection, 1959-1976

Lucinda Glenn RandGraduate Theological Union Archives2400 Ridge RoadBerkeley, California, 94709Phone: (510) 649-2523/2501Email: [email protected]: http://www.gtu.edu/library/special-collections/archives© 1998The Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.

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Inventory of the Berkeley Free Church Collection, 1959-1976

Accession number: GTU 89-5-016Shelf location: 2/E/2-2/F/3

The Graduate Theological Union Archives

Berkeley, CaliforniaContact Information:

Graduate Theological Union Archives2400 Ridge RoadBerkeley, California, 94709Phone: (510) 649-2523/2501Email: [email protected]: http://www.gtu.edu/library/special-collections/archives

Processed by:Lucinda Glenn RandDate Completed:July 27, 1995Cataloged:1995Encoded by:Michael C. Conkin

© 1998 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.

Descriptive SummaryTitle: Berkeley Free Church Collection,Date (inclusive): 1959-1976Accession number: GTU 89-5-016Shelf location: 2/E/2-2/F/3Creator: Berkeley Free ChurchCollection Size: 31 boxes; 24 Linear Feet;199 online itemsRepository: The Graduate Theological Union.Berkeley, CaliforniaAbstract: The Berkeley Free Church (South Campus Community Ministry), 1967-1972, Richard York, Pastor, operated aservice ministry to the Berkeley, CA, Telegraph Ave. area transients, runaways and hippies. Services included a referralswitchboard, counseling, health care, crash pads, and free food. Support came from area merchants, local churches, andthe Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations. The Church and its clergy were involved in all the radical and social justiceissues of the late 60's including local Berkeley issues, campus riots, and People's Park; peace and draft resistance issues ofthe Vietnam War; and radical church renewal in the mainline Protestant denominations.Language: English.

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holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.Preferred Citation[Identification of item], Berkeley Free Church Collection, GTU 89-5-016, The Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley,CA.SubjectsNon-institutional churches--California--Berkeley--History--SourcesInterdenominational cooperation--California--BerkeleyClergy--Political activityChurch renewal--United States--History--Sources--20th centuryBerkeley (Calif.)--Church history--SourcesBerkeley (Calif.)--History--SourcesBerkeley (Calif.)--NewspapersPolice--California--BerkeleyRiots--California--BerkeleyPublic Relations--Police--California--BerkeleyTelegraph Ave. (Berkeley, Calif.)People's Park (Berkeley, Calif.)--History--SourcesRadicalism--California--Berkeley--History--SourcesRadicalism--United States--History--SourcesHippies--California--BerkeleyHippies--California--San Francisco--Haight-AshburyHippies--California--History--SourcesHippies--Religious lifeHippies--United States--Societies, etc.--DirectoriesBerkeley Free Church--Information servicesReferral centers (Information services)--California--BerkeleyEcumenical liturgiesLiturgical adaptationPrayer-booksDraft Resisters--United StatesVietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Draft ResistersVietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest Movements--United StatesVietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors--United StatesConscientious objectors--United StatesPeace--Religious aspectsUnited States--Race relations--History--20th centuryWeddings--United StatesEpiscopal Church--History--Sources--20th centuryEpiscopal Church--Diocese of California--History--Sources--20th centuryPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--History--Sources--20th centuryPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--Presbytery of San Francisco--History--Sources--20th centuryPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--Synod of the Golden Gate--History--Sources--20th centuryFredericksburg (Va.), Battle of, 1862United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narrativesNames As SubjectsYork, Richard L.Brown, John PairmanBrown, Emily Waymouth


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Nugent, Anthony O.Stelmach, Harlan Douglas AnthonyJennings, RaymondButeyn, DonaldDavis, EstherSmith, Otto Joseph Mitchell, 1917-March, RobertYandell, JamesBiography / Administrative HistoryFor an extensive history and analysis of the Berkeley Free Church, 1967-72, and the people involved in it, please see (link isto full manuscript): Stelmach, Harlan D.A., The Cult of Liberation: The Berkeley Free Church and the Radical ChurchMovement, 1967-72 (Berkeley, CA: Graduate Theological Union Dissertation, 1977) Call number: BX9999 .B4F7, v. 1-2.What follows is a short description based on the dissertation.

God is not dead.God is bread.The bread is rising.Bread means revolution.God means revolution.Murder is no revolution.Revolution is love.Win with love.The radical Jesus is winning.The world is coming to a beginning.The whole world is watching.Organize for a new world.Wash off your brother's blood.Burn out the mark of the Beast.Join the freedom meal.Plant the people's park.The asphalt church is marching.The guerrilla church is recruiting.The submarine church is surfacing.The war is over.The war is over.The war is over.The Liberated Zone is at hand.Richard L. York, 1968

By the mid-1960s, Berkeley, California had become a center of the "hippie" culture drawing large numbers of transientyouth to the area called South Campus, especially Telegraph Ave. A small group of area merchants and clergy of localchurches, interested in reconciliation and conflict resolution, conceived the idea of ministry to the needs of these persons.The South Campus Community Ministry was incorporated in May 1967. Richard L. York, recent graduate of the ChurchDivinity School of the Pacific, and soon to be ordained in the Episcopal Church, was hired as Director. The SCCM quicklyemerged as both an alternative social service agency and a "Free Church" as it was called by the kids on the street ("free"designating "hippie").The Free Church worked out of a house in the South Campus area which was also where York and his family lived. In the early months, with minimal staff, particularly Glee Bishop, and some volunteers, the Free Church began its ministry by reacting to the immediate needs of the street people. From this grew services such as: a switchboard; counseling and crisis intervention for problems and issues such as runaways, the draft, problems with drugs, and more; providing crash pads; and providing free meals. Eventually, the Free Church helped develop "spin off" projects which took over these services,

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such as the Berkeley Runaway Center, the Berkeley Free Clinic, and the Berkeley Emergency Food Project.As the services grew, and the ministry expanded, so did support from such agencies as the Episcopal Church and thePresbyterian Church. Anthony Nugent, a Presbyterian minister, and John Pairman Brown, "Theologian in Residence", anEpiscopal minister, were added to the staff, and the volunteer pool expanded to include both people from the street, andwell-meaning church people who wanted to help.The ministers of the Free Church continued to move in radical directions both theologically and politically, locally andnationally, participating in all the radical and social justice issues of the time: peace issues including Vietnam protests, draftresistance, and conscientious objectors; student protests, both at the University of California, Berkeley, and the localseminaries, particularly Pacific School of Religion; race issues, particularly the Black Panthers; Berkeley city issues involvingsocial services, the police, housing, and riots; and People's Park. The staff were also involved in issues of radical churchrenewal, locally doing alternative liturgies for the Free Church and general South Campus community, and nationallyconfronting established churches and denominations.During this period, too, the Free Church, especially John Pairman Brown and Emily Brown, was involved in the Free ChurchPublications. This included various books published by John Pairman Brown, manuals and handbooks on the switchboardand collective ideas, a yearly calendar, and "Win With Love: A Directory of the Liberated Church in America".Stelmach describes the tensions inherent in the work of the Free Church and its leadership: "It seems clear that from thestart there existed two models for the ministry that came to be called the 'Berkeley Free Church.' First, there was the socialservice and reconciliation model. The second was the rapidly emerging alternative church and advocacy model. These twomodels, though not inherently or theoretically irreconcilable, were constantly in tension with each other. . . . [T]he FreeChurch would move in the direction of an alternative church--a church that advocated the perceived rights, needs andvalues of its [hippie] constituency over against an established society and church that were increasingly coming underattack from this constituency. Therefore, the Free Church always had two constituencies for whom, or two bases fromwhich, it operated: the church and the world or religion and political action. . . . The tensions...which defined the FreeChurch's constituencies and base in the oppositional youth (hippie) culture's politics and life styles, for the sake of churchrenewal, is the basis for understanding the evolution of the Free Church from a hippie church to a political cult." (Stelmach,Harlan D.A. The Cult of Liberation: The Berkeley Free Church and the Radical Church Movement , Pg. 18)By 1970, controversies and difficulties began to emerge. The staff split over styles, directions, and emphases for theministry which culminated in Anthony Nugent resigning and setting up the separate Submarine Church. The more politicallyinvolved the staff became, the more controversial the ministry became to its more conservative supporting constituency inthe established churches and denominations. The Free Church experienced increased police harassment, negative media,and eroding support.Throughout 1971-72, the continued and growing contradictions, political, theological, and organizational, resulted in afragmented ministry lacking in cohesion, definition, direction, and effectiveness. There was a growing disparity between theBoard of Directors and the Switchboard people, by now the only service left, as the Switchboard staff moved toward acollective model. This caused more tension between the ideas of the Free Church as alternative church or as politicalservice agency.It is now early 1972: "The nature of the transient youth in the youth ghetto, to which the Free Church was 'called' to servefrom its inception as SCCM, still continued to be lower class, less educated, and older young adults. It was not a group fromwhich the Free Church desired to recruit its lower level staff or volunteers. These older youths were basically free floatingtransients. But perhaps out of tradition, some altruism, some continued notion of conflict resolution, or maybe becausethey were funded to do 'corporal acts of mercy,' the Free Church still made efforts to serve the transients by itsswitchboard or its rejuvenated food program. One of the last programs the Free Church 'spun off' was its free food program. . . However, by late 1971 the transients were only the 'objects' of the service ministry. The motivation was 'charity' notself liberation. Therefore, the Free Church's paternalism plus the nature of the street transient helped to reimpose theclientele relationship in the social service ministry." (Stelmach, Pg. 283)There is a breakdown of the Left and the radicals generally. At the Free Church, there is a further breakdown of theorganization, staff relations, and personal lives. The Browns resign from the staff, and York continues as the only remainingstaff person. The switchboard is closed. York entered a period of evaluation and the attempted development of a newdirection for the ministry.In September 1972, York took a sabbatical, and the Free Church, for all practical purposes, ceased to exist. The energy and optimism York expresses in the poem above gives way to the pain expressed here: "The solitude and doubt which invades all of human existence began to be experienced as a depressing reality by many of us who were working in the Movement (secular and religious) in the late 60's. 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our souls, of lost vision, dashed instant-revolution hopes, smashed stardom, soul poverty and powerlessness. . . . The 'FreeChurch/Submarine Church/Liberated Church Movement' was real, as real as was the secular movement of the 60's, butcertainly not separate from it. And that in part is our problem. . . . [i]n fact the Movement and the Radical Church are twofountains from the same source. . . . Both have suffered from a kind of 'movement eschatology', in which we lived, talkedand acted as though the revolution would be over tomorrow, just after this one last street demonstration. . . . For theradical church movement, it was fed additionally by a theological eschatology, which was not thought through deeplyenough. . . . We ran like lemmings into the maw of the World Pig, expecting that we would choke it and kill it overnight, andinstead it began to chew us to bits as our ripped hopes and bodies evidence." (Richard L. York, Radical Religion: Vol. 1 no. 1(Winter 1973) pgs. 23-25.)Scope and ContentThe collection consists of working files, correspondence, records, minutes, flyers, pamphlets, posters, newspapers andclippings, and published material. Also included are files of the Submarine Church, a group which broke off from theBerkeley Free Church. There are some personal family files from the pastor Richard York, including a set of letters from aCivil War Union soldier describing the Battle of Fredericksburg. There is a great deal of duplication in this collection, thesame material being found under more than one files series. Much duplicated material can be found under the Richard L.York Files and the Berkeley Free Church Files.Note:Material on People's Park, 1969 can be found in: Box 3, ff 46-49; Box 6, ff 19-27; Box 10; Box 15, ff 27-43; Box 16, ff 1-2;Box 27; Small Collections Box 3, ff4 (3/A/2); and Small Collections Folio 1 (3/C/4).Note:Books in the GTU Rare Book Collection (links go to digital version on Internet Archive): Brown, John Pairman, The LiberatedZone: A Guide to Christian Resistance (Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1969): BR85 .B837, Rare.Brown, John Pairman,Planet On Strike (New York: Seabury Press, 1970): BR121.2 .B78, Rare.Brown, John Pairman and York, Richard L., TheCovenant of Peace: A Liberation Prayer Book (New York: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1971): BV176 . B47, Rare .ArrangementArrangement follows the order created by Harlan Stelmach while he was working on his dissertation.Custodial HistoryThis collection went from Richard L. York to Harlan Stelmach for Stelmach to research for his GTU dissertation, The Cult ofLiberation. Stelmach writes in his Preface: "I realized the Free Church story needed to be told as one example of howreligion and politics had been combined. I proposed this to York and he agreed to give me access to his personal archives.After six months spent in organizing the archives, my research began in earnest." (pg. vi.) The order of the collectioncomes, therefore, from Stelmach's organization of the files for his research. He also did many of the file folder headings.Throughout the files, there are red pencil underlinings and circles made by Stelmach in the course of his research. Aftercompletion of the dissertation, the collection then went to the Community for Religious Research and Education, Berkeley,California, a GTU student related group of which Stelmach was a part. This was the organization which published RadicalReligion, a journal that "grew out of the ashes of the Berkeley Free Church." In the end notes for the dissertation, Stelmachsites all material from this collection as "CRRE Historical Archives" indicating that the depository of the material in theCommunity for Religious Research and Education. When the CRRE ceased to function, around 1977, the collection wastransferred to the DataCenter, a non-profit interest research library and information center, in Oakland, California. TheDataCenter held the collection as received in its original containers until deeded to the GTU Archives in 1989.Separation NoteGiven to the Oakland History Room, Oakland, CA Public Library: 1 ft. of material, 1965-66, on the Peralta Villa housingdevelopment, the Peralta Improvement League, the Lockwood Improvement League, and discrimination in the Oaklandpublic schools, and newsletters, "Flatlands", and "Lockwood Ledger".Given to the DataCenter, Oakland, CA: 2 in., Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Newsletters, 1972-73.

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Richard L. York File, ChronologicalSize: ca. 5 ft.Location: 2/E/2-2/E/3ArrangementArranged by year, then no order

1959-1967Box 1, Folder ff 1 1959-61, Drafts of papersFolder ff 2 1959-62, Art Design TheoryFolder ff 3-4 1959-67, Personal CorrespondenceFolder ff 5 1960, "Black Friday", Demonstrations against House Un-American Activities

CommitteeFolder ff 6 1960, Student paper, "Aesthetic Experience of Mystical Experience"Folder ff 7 1960-67, RLY PoetryFolder ff 8-10 1960-67, Holy SpiritFolder ff 11 1961-62, NewsclipsFolder ff 12 1962, C.E. Silverman, "The City and the Negro"Folder ff 13-15 1963-66, 1969, Students for a Democratic Society, Newsletters and

PublicationsFolder ff 16 c. 1964, Scheer for Congress CampaignFolder ff 17 1964-66, Civil Rights stuffFolder ff 18 1965, R.C. Weaver, "The Negro as an American"Folder ff 19 1965, PapersFolder ff 20 1965-66, Community OrganizingFolder ff 21 1966, Delano Grape StrikeFolder ff 22 1966, CDSP/Ecumenical Peace Fellowship ControversyFolder ff 23 1966-67, Hippie articlesFolder ff 24 1966-67, Church and Politics 1967Folder ff 25 John Pairman BrownFolder ff 26 Raps on Free ChurchFolder ff 27 CDSP Senior sermon, "Demons"Folder ff 28 Clippings (pasted)Folder ff 29 Clippings (not pasted)Folder ff 30 First Presbyterian, battle over use of Haste HouseFolder ff 31 Photograph -- Assumption FeastFolder ff 32 unsortedFolder ff 33 Misc. historyFolder ff 34 St. Francis celebration at Newman HallFolder ff 35 Oakland Induction sit-ins and Freedom MealFolder ff 36 Misc. undatedFolder ff 37 Washington Mobilization of Clergy, 2/1/67Folder ff 38 Rubin for mayorFolder ff 39 Episcopal General ConventionFolder ff 40 Assumption festivalFolder ff 41 Cathedral sit-in, 2/1967Box 2, Folder ff 1 Clippings, unsortedFolder ff 2 "The South Campus Community Ministry: An Analysis of its Stance and

Direction"Folder ff 3-4 Inter-Seminary League for Academic Freedom (John Pairman Brown)Folder ff 5 General CorrespondenceFolder ff 6 David Nesmith, Correspondence, 1965-68Folder ff 7 Burst from the Love BubbleFolder ff 8 Journal, Dick YorkFolder ff 9 Misc.Folder ff 10 Slide Production TextFolder ff 11 Canonical Exams and CDSP Graduation



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Folder ff 12 Haste St. House; Use of Lutheran Church of the Cross 1968Folder ff 13 The Free Church, Unified ProposalFolder ff 14 Christian Century, 4/10/68Folder ff 15 RapsFolder ff 16 SermonsFolder ff 17-18 Clippings (pasted)Folder ff 19-21 Clippings (not pasted)Folder ff 22 SeparationFolder ff 23 Glee Bishop: salary mattersFolder ff 24-25 Related MaterialsFolder ff 26 Methodist plan -- ecumenical possibility for housing BFCFolder ff 27-28 Program: What Free Church did in 1968Folder ff 29 BFC, paste-ups of clippings, Flyers, 1968-70Folder ff 30 Letters about SupportFolder ff 31 Documents and By-lawsFolder ff 32 Chain GangFolder ff 33 ReportsFolder ff 34 Misc. CorrespondenceFolder ff 35 Telegraph SchemesFolder ff 36 OrdinationFolder ff 37 Communication TechniquesFolder ff 38-39 Misc.Folder ff 40 Supporting Churches and MerchantsFolder ff 41 Riot Stuff, Following Events, ACLUFolder ff 42-43 Riot MaterialsBox 3, Folder ff 1 Case workFolder ff 2 Police meetingFolder ff 3 Presidio 27 Material and MarchFolder ff 4 UnsortedFolder ff 5 Reformation Day ThesesFolder ff 6 Pamphlet: "Student as Nigger"Folder ff 7 Working DocumentsFolder ff 8 Trinity United Methodist Church lease 1969Folder ff 9-10 UnsortedFolder ff 11 H. Stelmach, "The Axis of History"Folder ff 12 Mission Design for Free Church (written 1968)Folder ff 13 Descriptions and PRFolder ff 14 Trinity United Methodist Church useFolder ff 15 Buteyn's Letter, First PresbyterianFolder ff 16 Action-Reaction ArticleFolder ff 17-20 ClippingsFolder ff 21 Clippings, unsortedFolder ff 22-24 ITKIN's Material (Community of the Love of Christ, Evangelical Catholic)Folder ff 25 Police RelationsFolder ff 26 People's Park -- photograph, drawing, Dick YorkFolder ff 27 Alameda Co. Welfare DepartmentFolder ff 28 Berkeley Tenants UnionFolder ff 29 "Street" and "Telegraph Ave. Liberation Front Manual" (newsletters)Folder ff 30 Mobilization, Vietnam MoratoriumFolder ff 31 BFC Mission Design of Organizing PastorsFolder ff 32-33 Episcopal Church Special General Convention, South Bend, INFolder ff 34 Revolutionary Community Medical CorpsFolder ff 35 Holy WeekFolder ff 36 Speech, Western Meeting, American Public Health Assoc.Folder ff 37 Better Berkeley Council



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Folder ff 38 Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Peace Cross Order FormsFolder ff 39 Gene Horn, GTU Work-study StudentFolder ff 40 Free Church Ministry of DefenseFolder ff 41 Fund mailings, newsletters, etc.Folder ff 42 Clusters of Churches, Conference, Phoenix, AZFolder ff 43 Ray Jennings, "What Are They Like?"Folder ff 44 "November 5 Statement" by the BFC StaffFolder ff 45 Free Clinic PlansFolder ff 46-49 People's Park: Photograph book, Pamphlets, People's Park and Religion

Note(See also: Box 6, ff 19-27; Box 10; Box 15, ff 27-43; Box 16, ff 1-2; Box 27; SmallCollections Box 3, ff 4; Small Collections Folio 1)

Folder ff 50 Sali and CharleneBox 4, Folder ff 1 Guerilla Academy of the Revolutionary ChurchFolder ff 2 Browne Barr, First Congregational ChurchFolder ff 3 Black PanthersFolder ff 4 Correspondence, carbonsFolder ff 5 University of California and February "Riot"Folder ff 6-8 South Bend (Episcopal Convention)Folder ff 9 Yandell -- The Adversary GameFolder ff 10 Background Happenings, "The Movement"Folder ff 11 Black ManifestoFolder ff 12 Background Happenings, "Religious"Folder ff 13 Jock's Books (John Pairman Brown)Folder ff 14 Personnel Committee Letters 1970Folder ff 15 Possible use of St. Mark'sFolder ff 16 Police Statistics, Berkeley Police DepartmentFolder ff 17 Dick and Melinda's WeddingFolder ff 18 Police and the Free ChurchFolder ff 19-27 York Beating and LawsuitFolder ff 28 "You Are the Rising Bread", a manual for doing the work of the Church in

America, Free Church Publications 1971Folder ff 29 Report on the Free Church to the Sather Gate Inter Church CouncilFolder ff 30 Proposal for the Reorganization of the Berkeley Free ChurchFolder ff 31 Ordination of Women Issue, Meyers, ClippingsFolder ff 32 ClippingsFolder ff 33 BFC Program and ActivitiesFolder ff 34 Richard BoylanFolder ff 35-36 CorrespondenceFolder ff 37 Police and the BFCFolder ff 38 Community Control of PoliceFolder ff 39 Switchboard Program InformationFolder ff 40 Church Renewal at Ann Arbor -- StatementFolder ff 41 Berkeley/Community/Political HappeningsFolder ff 42 April Coalition Platform (Berkeley Council Elections)Folder ff 43 South Campus Ministry By-lawsFolder ff 44 GTU Alternative Education Caucus ProposalFolder ff 45 Berkeley City Council MeetingsFolder ff 46 Misc. Religious HappeningsFolder ff 47 City health/drug/community serviceFolder ff 48 Couples Fund MailingFolder ff 49 Unitas dealingsBox 5, Folder ff 1 Alternative Psychotherapy Service, Univ. of CaliforniaFolder ff 2 Use Permit Hearings for BFC in Chilton Way HouseFolder ff 3 Marianne Lorenzelli, UCB School of Social Welfare



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Folder ff 4 Community Control of Pigs (Police); April Coalition, Part INotePart II: Legal size flyers in Small Collections Box 3, ff 6, Location: 3/A/2

Folder ff 5 Manifesto of the Switchboard Collection, BFCFolder ff 6 BFC Finding Proposal to Joint Strategy and Action Committee (Episcopal)Folder ff 7 Transient YouthFolder ff 8 Jewish Coalition Youth SupportFolder ff 9 R. Jennings, "The Changing Scene on Telegraph"Folder ff 10 Unitas -- Free Church CooperationFolder ff 11 Administrative Assistant ReportFolder ff 12 Job DescriptionsFolder ff 13-14 Church Society for College WorkFolder ff 15 Berkeley Alternative Services CoalitionFolder ff 16 Berkeley City Council Meeting Minutes 1972Folder ff 17 Deanery, AlamedaFolder ff 18 J. Baumohl, Berkeley South Campus AnalysisFolder ff 19 ClippingsFolder ff 20 Political/Community HappeningsFolder ff 21 Episcopal diocese of California General ConventionFolder ff 22 BFC Meeting Notes from H. StelmachFolder ff 23 David Howard StuffFolder ff 24 BFC ProgramFolder ff 25 York's notesFolder ff 26 CorrespondenceFolder ff 27 Isabel WisemanFolder ff 28 Religious HappeningsFolder ff 29-31 New Program, Evaluation, Proposal, and NotesFolder ff 32 BFC: A Report, OctoberFolder ff 33 DreamsFolder ff 34 Street People Survey, "Who Are You"Folder ff 35 Financial Reports and Staff MeetingsFolder ff 36 "Berkeley's South Campus"Folder ff 37 Asia Information Group, War Bulletin, no. 3-6Folder ff 38 Letter to Sather Gate Churches Council, 4/27/72Folder ff 39 Berkeley Planning Department Housing StatementFolder ff 40 John Pairman Brown ControversyFolder ff 41 Episcopal Department of Urban and New Ministries 1973Folder ff 42-43 ClippingsFolder ff 44 Richard York ResumeFolder ff 45 Diocesan Convention

Note(see also Box 6, ff 2)

Folder ff 46 York SermonsFolder ff 47 Political/Community HappeningsFolder ff 48 Religious HappeningsFolder ff 49 CorrespondenceBox 6, Folder ff 1 Book NotesFolder ff 2 Diocesan Convention

Note(see also Box 5, ff 45)

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Richard L. York Files, Topical FilesArrangementNo order

Box 6, Folder ff3-4

Religious Organizations Misc.

Folder ff 5 Community/Movement Misc.Folder ff 6-7 Articles on Religion Misc.Folder ff 8 LiturgiesFolder ff 9 Telegraph Summer Fund; Berkeley Summer FundFolder ff 10 Riot ReportsFolder ff 11-12 Early Peace Literature, 1961-70Folder ff 13 Theology of RevolutionFolder ff 14 Berkeley Health ServicesFolder ff 15 Mental Health, BerkeleyFolder ff 16 Radicalism, update, 1973-76Folder ff 17 Religion and the New Left, 1969-73Folder ff 18 Religion and the Left update, 1973Folder ff 19-27 People's Park, 1969: Clippings, Flyers, Bail Fund

NoteSee also: Box 27

Folder ff 28 Gay IssuesFolder ff 29-30 Drugs, 1968-72Folder ff 31 Youth Services (Survival), c. 1969-72Box 7, Folder ff 1 Youth ServicesFolder ff 2-3 Youth, General, 1968-71Folder ff 4 Conscientious ObjectorFolder ff 5 Black Panthers and 60's Ghetto RiotsFolder ff 6 Blacks and FreedomFolder ff 7-14 Movement, Left, Community Organizing, UnsortedBox 31 This Box contains files removed from the Radical Religion Collection, GTU 95-7-02.

Some material may duplicate material found elsewhere in this collection. 1969-73Folder ff 1 Article by York: "Days After Block Island"1969-70Folder ff 2 Fonda-Hayden wedding: articles about York rebuked by the Bishop1973Folder ff 3 Ordination of Peter D. Haynes, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco1973 July 11Folder ff 4 York Ordination sermon: "God is Doing His Thing" by John Pairman Brown,includes

Brown CV 1968 March 9Folder ff 5 Berkeley Free Church material: Articles about BFC and York 1967-1968Folder ff 6 BFC: Brochures, pamphlets, information, newsletter on the church and the

switchboard1967-73Folder ff 7 BFC: Liturgies - The Freedom Meal,1968-69Folder ff 8 BFC: Preface to [Free Church] Collective Handbook by York, n.d.; and proposal for

the Washington MobilizationOctober 1970Folder ff 9 BFC: "You Are the Rising Bread: A Manual for Doing the Work of the Church in

America" by the Free Church PublicationsJune 1970Folder ff 10 Alameda County, CA Peace and Freedom Party; 1969Folder ff 11 No folder 11Folder ff 12 Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 1965-66Folder ff 13 Students for a Democratic Society 1968-69Folder ff 14 Angel [poems] by Ray Bremser 1968Folder ff 15 Dept. of California Highway Patrol Training Manual First Aid Supplement 1959Folder ff 16 The Draft System and You, Southwest Regional Draft Counseling Association circa

1970Folder ff 17 The Joys of Space-Making: Report of New Adult Community, San Diego, CA,

1967-70Folder ff 18 Manual for Draft Age Immigrants to Canada, Toronto Anti-Draft Programme, 1968

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Folder ff 19 Nine for Peace, The Resistance, Marin City, CA, 1968Folder ff 20 Peace is Patriotic: 1970, Calendar from Citizen' Organization for a Sane World The

Professional and the Contemporary Youth Scene, a series at the University ofCalifornia, San Francisco, 1968

Folder ff 21 The Kent 25, from the Kent Legal Defense Fund, 1 issue, 1970 November 4Folder ff 22 New Morning, Berkeley, CA, 1 issue, 1970 DecemberFolder ff 23 Road Runner (correspondence about), 1970Folder ff 24 Article from the San Francisco Chronicle, "Vietnam Tactics in Berkeley", with

photo, 5/22/69 1969 May 22

Richard L. York Files, OrganizationsSize: ca. 1 ft.Location: 2/E/3-2/E/4ArrangementNo order

Box 7, Folder ff 15 Berkeley City Council Meetings, 1971Folder ff 16 Berkeley City Council Meetings, 1972-3/73Folder ff 17 The Bridge (Social Justice Newsletter), 1970-71Folder ff 18 Berkeley Citizens Committee on Public Safety, 1971-73Folder ff 19 Church Society for College Work, 1969-73Folder ff 20 Interchange, Committee of Social Justice, Archdiocese of San Francisco, 1973Folder ff 21 Berkeley Runaway Center, 1970-72Folder ff 22 Bay Area Switchboards, 1969-70Folder ff 23 Switchboards, other than California, 1968-70Folder ff 24 Weathermen, SacramentoFolder ff 25 ACLU, 1968-70Folder ff 26 Berkeley Alternative Services Coalition, 1971Folder ff 27 Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic, 1968-69Folder ff 28 Free University, 1970Box 8, Folder ff 1 Joint Strategy and Action Committee, 1970-72Folder ff 2 Community of the AgapeFolder ff 3 Experimental Ministries Committee, United PresbyterianFolder ff 4 Berkeley Coordinated Drug Services, 1971-72Folder ff 5 Christian World Liberation FrontFolder ff 6-7 Ecumenical Ministry to the Haight-Ashbury, 409 HouseFolder ff 8 Episcopal Peace Fellowship, 1971-73Folder ff 9 Ecumenical Peace Institute, 1971-72Folder ff 10 EPI Indochina Newsletter, 1973 (Issues1-3)Folder ff 11 Fellowship for a Free Ministry, 1971Folder ff 12 Glide Foundation, 1967, 1971Folder ff 13 Glide Urban Center, "Survival Resource List"Folder ff 14 Grapevine, Newsletter of Joint Strategy and Action Committee, 1970-72Folder ff 15 Newman Hall, Holy Spirit Parish, 1973Folder ff 16 Order of Maximilian, 1970Folder ff 17 Probe, Newsletter of Christian Assoc. of S.W. Penn.Folder ff 18 San Francisco Conference on Religion and Peace, 1971Folder ff 19 Ecology and Politics Newsletter, 1970, United Ministries in Higher EducationFolder ff 20 Student Christian Movement, England, 1973Folder ff 21 Sather Gate Inter-Church Council, 1969-73Folder ff 22-28 Episcopal Diocese Urban Department, 1967-73Folder ff 29-30 Episcopal Diocese of California, 1972-73Folder ff 31 Unsorted

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Richard L. York Files, Wedding Book, 1973-74Size: ca. 5 in.Location: 2/E/4

Box 8, Folder ff32-77

Richard L. York Files, Wedding BookScope and Content Noteff 44 lists the contents of the proposed book. The working title: "The LiberatedWedding: A Free-People's Guide to Marriage Celebration." This is a collection ofpublished articles, pamphlets, information, and material on which to base the book,arranged in the subject categories listed in the contents. There are no drafts. Ofinterest is the file on the Jane Fonda-Tom Hayden Wedding, ff 58. The wedding wasperformed by Richard York.


Richard L. York Files, Wedding Book (continued)Scope and Content NoteOf interest: ff 21-22, Berkeley Free Church wedding

Richard L. York Files, 3-Ring BindersSize: 2 in.Location: 2/E/4


3-ring binder: Interseminary League for Academic Freedom, 1967

Folder ff 3-6 3-ring binder: Green Flag Poetry People's Park Chronology, 1967-69 Youth Revolt and the New Left People's Conference: A Gathering of Tribes, Berkeley, 1969

Box 11

Richard L. York Files, Pamphlets, 1961-68

Size: 2 in.

Location: 2/E/4

Scope and Content Note

Pertaining to various subjects of interest to York during those years, including: the Holy Spirit, New Left, SDS, ecumenism,political satire, spirituality, theology, intentional community.

Richard L. York Files, Family HistorySize: 2 in.Location: 2/E/4

CorrespondenceBox 12, Folder ff 1 9/1845, Mary Rohrer, Ann Rohrer, Susan RohrerFolder ff 2 2/1851, Ann Rohrer, Sarah Ann BishopFolder ff 3 9/1853, G. or J. WolfersbergerFolder ff 4-12 9/1860-10/1864, 11 letters from George L. Freet to Susan Wolfersberger (The

majority of the letters are written during the Civil War. George was in the126th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. ff 9 describes the Battle ofFredericksburg.)

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Folder ff 13 1 letter, n.d., unsigned, addressed to "Mr. Lincoln, Dear Sir, President", typedcopy: original in Small Collections Box 3, ff 3, Location: 3/A/2

Folder ff 14 9/1924, Frank M. Zeller to George A. Zeller AlmanacsBox 12, Folder ff15-18

1851, 1853, 1869, 1875

Folder ff 19 Newspapers, 1857, 1902Folder ff 20 Illustration of Biblical themes (from a Bible?), n.d. Berkeley Free Church Files

Berkeley Free Church Files, ChronologicalSize: ca. 2 ft.Location: 2/E/5ArrangementArranged by year, then no order

1967Box 13, Folder ff 1 Board Meeting Notices and Minutes (incomplete?), 1967-69Folder ff 2 South Campus Community Ministry Brochure, c. 1967Folder ff 3 San Rafael Military AcademyFolder ff 4 Port Chicago TrialsFolder ff 5 Vietnam: The Clergyman's DilemmaFolder ff 6 Tet Fast, Grace CathedralFolder ff 7 Civil Action Day CommitteeFolder ff 8 Huckleberry House for RunawaysFolder ff 9 South Campus Ministry Steering CommitteeFolder ff 10 South Campus Community Ministry Journal, June-AugustFolder ff 11 Letters of Commendation, 1967-71 1968Folder ff 12 Staff Meeting MinutesFolder ff 13 Mace: from Joel BrooksFolder ff 14 Richard York OrdinationFolder ff 15 Correspondence, Potential SupportFolder ff 16 South Campus Ministry ProposalFolder ff 17 Counselling ReportsFolder ff 18 Berkeley Public Library Exhibits CommitteeFolder ff 19 Sermon: "Authentic Enlistment", John Pairman BrownFolder ff 20 Berkeley Youth CouncilFolder ff 21 "Repeal of the Prayer Book", John Pairman BrownFolder ff 22 Berkeley Health ServicesFolder ff 23 Health ForumsFolder ff 24 Peace and ResistanceFolder ff 25 9 for PeaceFolder ff 26 Press Release: Procession during Assembly BanFolder ff 27 ACLUFolder ff 28 Newspaper: Berkeley Barb 1969Folder ff 29 Staff working papers; Reports; PlanningFolder ff 30 Leaflets for Files and Reports, March -JulyFolder ff 31 Berkeley Churches Cooperative Ministry to YouthFolder ff 32 Programs and InvolvementsFolder ff 33 ResistanceFolder ff 34-35 National Council of Churches General Assembly, DetroitFolder ff 36 Liberated Church Press, newsletterFolder ff 37 Quarterly ReportsFolder ff 38 Staff Policy

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Folder ff 39 Personnel -- ConfidentialFolder ff 40 Fund Raising StrategyFolder ff 41 NewsclippingsFolder ff 42 People's Park, Instant News ServiceFolder ff 43-44 People's Park, Daily CalifornianFolder ff 45 Black Panther NewspaperFolder ff 46 Telegraph Ave. Summer ProgramFolder ff 47 Episcopal Diocese Committee on Renewal and RestructureFolder ff 48 Bail Fund InformationFolder ff 49 Cal Disorientation (University of California, Berkeley)Folder ff 50 Fund Letter ThanksBox 14, Folder ff 1 National Council of Churches, Detroit: Jonathan's WakeFolder ff 2 Diocesan ConventionFolder ff 3 First Congregational ReportFolder ff 4 New Seminary, Pacific School of Religion, Free Church ExorcismFolder ff 5 Pacific School of Religion, New Seminary MovementFolder ff 6 Newspaper, Berkeley TribeFolder ff 7 Newspaper, Berkeley MonitorFolder ff 8 Newspaper, Outcry (People's Park)Folder ff 9 Newspaper, San Francisco Express TimesFolder ff 10 Newspaper, San Francisco Good timesFolder ff 11 Lease, Oregon St.Folder ff 12 SwitchboardFolder ff 13 Program Goals QuestionnaireFolder ff 14 Job DescriptionsFolder ff 15 Coop Membership for Free ChurchFolder ff 16 Clinton Taliaferro, CorrespondenceFolder ff 17 Ray Jennings, 1st Baptist, "The Changing Scene on Telegraph"Folder ff 18 Press and Descriptions of Free ChurchFolder ff 19 Submarine Church PressFolder ff 20 Big Religious ServicesFolder ff 21 Order of Maximilian, Fort Ord and PresidioFolder ff 22 Dick York's Beating and LawsuitFolder ff 23 Convention, Episcopal Diocese of CaliforniaFolder ff 24 Police HarassmentFolder ff 25 Diocesan Council RelationsFolder ff 26 Correspondence, carbonsFolder ff 27 Report on the Work of the Resident Theologian (John Pairman Brown)Folder ff 28 Dick and Melinda's WeddingFolder ff 29 Switchboard LogsFolder ff 30 Programs, ActivitiesFolder ff 31-32 Fund, Thank You LettersFolder ff 33 Berkeley Tenants UnionFolder ff 34 Youth Coalition for Self DefenseFolder ff 35 Free Church Collective Handbook, requestsFolder ff 36 Sather Gate Interchurch Council MinutesFolder ff 37 Roger Williams Witness, American Baptist ConventionFolder ff 38 Portland YMCA SwitchboardFolder ff 39 Board Meeting Minutes and Notices, Financial Statements, 1970-72Folder ff 40 Misc. Religious HappeningsFolder ff 41 Political/Community HappeningsFolder ff 42 Telegraph Ave. Concerns CommitteeFolder ff 43 Proposal to Pendle Hill Radical Church ConferenceFolder ff 44 Quarterly Reports and other documentsFolder ff 45 Peace StuffFolder ff 46 "The Future of the White Minority"Folder ff 47 CHURCH (Coalition of Radical Groups)Folder ff 48 Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention

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Folder ff 49 SCAN (Submarine Church Action Network)Folder ff 50 Steve Richardson, SCANFolder ff 51 Open House, Free ChurchFolder ff 52 Budgets and FinancesFolder ff 53 "Who or What is the Enemy?", John Pairman BrownFolder ff 54 "The Free Church and Berkeley Switchboard"Folder ff 55 Funding ProposalsFolder ff 56-58 "First Source", National Council of Churches NewsletterFolder ff 59 Berkeley Youth Hostel, Peoples InnFolder ff 60 Housemobile ordinanceFolder ff 61 Berkeley Helicopter PlanFolder ff 62 Response to Free University Ad 1970

Note:1 ff, "Dog Shit" (Newsletter), no. 1-2, 1970-71, Small Collections, Box 3, ff 7, 3/A/2(legal size)

Box 15, Folder ff 1 Diocesan ConventionFolder ff 2-4 Newsclippings, 1970-72 1971Folder ff 5 Free Church Record, 1967-71Folder ff 6 Fr. Richard Boylan's Arrest 1972Folder ff 7 "The Draft" of an Evaluation of History, Current Situation, and Proposed Future

of the Berkeley Free Church, by Richard L. Riemer

Berkeley Free Church Files, MiscellaneousSize: ca. 1 ft.Location: 2/E/5-2/E/6ArrangementNo order

Box 15, Folder ff 8 Board Minutes, 1967 (including financial reports and misc.)Folder ff 9 Board Minutes, 1968Folder ff 10 Executive Committee Minutes, 1968Folder ff 11 Financial Statements, 1968Folder ff 12 Berkeley Free Church By-laws, 1968Folder ff 13 Board Minutes, 1969Folder ff 14 Financial Reports, 1969Folder ff 15 Quarterly Report, 1969Folder ff 16 Board Minutes, 1970Folder ff 17 Financial Reports, 1970Folder ff 18 Quarterly Reports, 1970Folder ff 19 Board Minutes, 1971Folder ff 20 Financial Reports, 1971Folder ff 21 Board Minutes, 1972Folder ff 22 Financial Reports, 1972Folder ff 23 Staff Meeting Log, 1972 Special Board Meeting Minutes, 2/1474/ (this was the meeting that voted that

the South Campus Ministry "be wound-up and dissolved")Folder ff 24 Parish Register, Marriages and Baptisms, 1967-70Folder ff 25 Misc. Berkeley Free Church Material, 1969-71Folder ff 26 "Mission Design of the Organizing Pastors" of the Berkeley Free Church, 1969-70

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Folder ff 27-43 People's Park Material, May 1969Note(See also: Box 3, ff 46-49; Box 6, ff 19-27; Box 10; Box 27; Small Collections Box 3, ff4(3/A/2); Small Collections Folio 1 (3/C/4))

Leaflets York's Speech at Community Meeting, 5/25/69 Newspapers Instant News Service (People's Press Syndicate) Daily Californian El Gaucho (UC Santa Barbara) Good Times Behiston Rock (Portland, OR) Berkeley Barb Outcry! from Occupied Berkeley Willamette Bridge (Portland, OR)Box 16, Folder ff1-2

People's Park (continued)

James Yandell, "Neither Law Nor Order: The People's Park and The People'sPolice", 1969

Folder ff 3 Oregon St. Lease, termination and extension, 4/28/71Folder ff 4 Esther Davis' File, Misc., 1968-70Folder ff 5 John Moyer, Religious Studies 486, "Major Contemporary Religious Topics", Spring

1971Folder ff 6 Morehouse-Barlow Publishers, "Covenant of Peace", 1968-70Folder ff 7 Misc. Leaflets, 1969-70Folder ff 8 Presbytery of San Francisco Business, 1969-70Folder ff 9 South Campus Ministry By-Laws, 1968Folder ff 10 Foundations, 1967-68Folder ff 11 Christian Science Monitor, "An Alternative Life Style", 7/19/69Folder ff 12 Guerrilla Academy of the Revolutionary Church, Grace Cathedral, 1970-71Folder ff 13 Boston Herald article, "Berkeley's Free Church Ministers to the Young", 11/9/69Folder ff 14 Richard L. York, "The Free Church of Berkeley", Church in Metropolis, Fall 1969Folder ff 15 National Catholic Reporter, "Free Church Gathering Tries to go Nationwide",

10/15/69Folder ff 16 "Report on the Berkeley Free Church", John Pairman Brown, Catonsville

Roadrunner, 4/69Folder ff 17 Free Church Publications: order forms, review, brochuresFolder ff 18 Free Church Brochure, c. 1972Folder ff 19 Letter from a War Mother, c. 1968Folder ff 20 Free Church closed, 1971Folder ff 21 Peace Message, Premier Pham van Dong, 10/14/69Folder ff 22 Program Goals Questionnaire, Free Church, 1970Folder ff 23 Free Church Needs Help, Appeal Letter, c. 1970Folder ff 24 Berkeley Helicopter Plan, Public Hearing NoticeFolder ff 25 "Both Sides Agree...There Are No Rules", SF Chronicle 12/31/69Folder ff 26 Free Church Open House, "No Room at the Inn?" 1/11/70Folder ff 27 Free Church LetterheadFolder ff 28 Berkeley Free Church Marriage Certificate formsFolder ff 29 "Liberated Zone" Ad, 1969Folder ff 30 Director's Report on Resident Theologian, 6/12/70Folder ff 31 Free Church Crashes (Crash Pad Program Brochure)Folder ff 32 "Search, Arrest and Questioning", Berkeley Tribe, 2/70Folder ff 33 Program Goals and Switchboard Log, 3/70Folder ff 34 Volunteer Application and Personal Information Sheet, 11/70Folder ff 35 "I am Free Church", Pledge/Volunteer formFolder ff 36 Board letter to Episcopal Diocesan Convention, 11/6/70Folder ff 37 "You are the Rising Bread", Free Church Publications, 6/70

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Folder ff 38 York Beating, Board Statement, 1970Folder ff 39 Free Church Christmas Eve liturgy, 1970Folder ff 40 Long Freedom Meal liturgy, Easter, 1969Folder ff 41 Berkeley Survival ServicesFolder ff 42 Free Church Brochure/Pamphlet, c. 1970Folder ff 43 "The Subversive Church", Newsletter, c. 1/70Folder ff 44 Solicitation letter from Joe McCarty, c. 1970Folder ff 45 Chicago Action Community, 1969Folder ff 46 Jewish Radical CoalitionFolder ff 47 "Street Poet's Muscle Sheet 1"Folder ff 48 Creative Living Tape Library Catalog, 1970Folder ff 49 The Family Store, Directory of People's Resources, c. 1970Folder ff 50 SF/Bay Area People's Yellow Pages, 1972Folder ff 51 "Strike at Frisco State! the Story Behind It", c. 1968Folder ff 52 "Youth and the Draft", 1970Folder ff 53 YWCA Teen Family Planning Program, 1973 (Oakland)Folder ff 54 "Project Community" Therapy with Adolescents, 3/70Folder ff 55 "To Stop a Police State", c. 1970Folder ff 56 "Our Bodies, Our Selves: A Course by and for Women", 1971Folder ff 57 "Underground Churches Define Their Role", National Catholic Reporter, 7/24/70Folder ff 58 Peace Files, c. 1969Folder ff 59 Newsreel catalog, 1969Folder ff 60 Radio--Publicity, 1968Folder ff 61 "War Incorporated", c. 1970Folder ff 62 "The Modern Utopian", Communes, 1970-71Folder ff 63 The Catholic Radical, 5-669/, Milwaukee, WIFolder ff 64 Plain Rapper, 4-569/, Palo Alto, CAFolder ff 65 Sal Alinsky, Means and Ends (Community Organizing), 1964-68Folder ff 66 "Community Communications", Berkeley Community Collectives, 1970Folder ff 67 Berkeley Free Church By-Laws, draft, 1972Folder ff 68 "Church in Metropolis", mss for article, Richard York, c. 1969Folder ff 69 Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties, 1969Folder ff 70 Council of Churches, New Forms of Ministry, 1969Folder ff 71 Berkeley Free Church Switchboard Manual, April 1970Folder ff 72 Unitas Self Study, 2/73Folder ff 73-74 Drug InformationFolder ff 75 Drug Abuse InformationBox 17, Folder ff 1 Drug Reports, EnglandFolder ff 2 Drug Information, San Francisco ClinicsFolder ff 3-4 Drug Program, BerkeleyFolder ff 5 Government Requests for Information, 1970-72Folder ff 6 Haight-AshburyFolder ff 7-8 Switchboard Manuals: Hotline, NY, 1970-71Folder ff 9-10 Switchboard Manuals: Various, 1970-71Folder ff 11 Berkeley Free Church Switchboard Manual, April 1970Folder ff 12 Switchboard Newsletter, 1971 (copies: originals, in Small Collections Box 3 ff 7a,

3/A/2)Folder ff 13-14 Switchboard Logs, 11/71-2/72, 3/72Folder ff 15 Reception of a Baby into the CovenantFolder ff 16 Easter Liturgies, c. 1969Folder ff 17 New Liturgical Materials, c. 1969Folder ff 18-19 Liturgical Materials, c. 1967-71Folder ff 20 The Underground Prayerbook, c. 1968-69Folder ff 21 Prayerbook, Manuscript Material, 12/69Folder ff 22 Prayerbook, Correspondence: Sheed and Ward PublishersFolder ff 23 "The Covenant of Peace: A Liberation Prayer Book", Draft, 3/70

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Free Church PublicationsSize: ca. 1 ft.Location: 2/E/6

Folder ff 24-30,Box 17

Publications Invoices, A - Z, 1971-72Additional NoteThis is a sampling. Some discarded due to extensive water damage and mold. Seealso correspondence and orders in "Win With Love" Directory files.

Folder ff 31 Bills Submitted to South Campus Community Ministry, 1970-72Folder ff 32 Addressograph, San Francisco, 1970-72Folder ff 33 Calendar Finances, 1971-72Folder ff 34 Ads, 1969-71Folder ff 35 Morehouse-Barlow Publishers, 1971-72Folder ff 36 John Knox Press, 1971-72Folder ff 37 Announcement for Journal, "Radical Religion", c. 1973

Free Church Publications: Directory, "Win With Love: A Directory of the LiberatedChurch in America", 1969-71

Size: 6 ft.Location: 2/E/6, 2/F/1-2/F/2Additional NoteThe directory was edited by Emily Waymouth Brown. In the introduction to No. 1, 1969 itstates: "This directory is being put out by the Free Church as a service to our friends,known and unknown, in America and overseas. We have not operated with a fixeddescription of the type of groups to be included; it has evolved as we discovered whatwas going on. The outfits here listed are all described from their response to ourquestionnaire and their own literature... Our ideal is to list ecumenical Christian groupswith a concern for service on one hand, and liberation on the other --and to encouragethe formation of more." In later editions, groups which were radical, political, or serviceoriented but having no relation to Christianity or religion, were also included.Scope Note:The directory files seemed to have been organized in three sections; 1) files of groups,churches, and organizations responding with their questionnaire and literature, 1969-70;2) correspondence about the directory, other Free Church Publications, and generalcorrespondence requesting information, 1969-72; and 3) files of groups, 1970-71 (withsome 1969 mixed in). Some sampling was done, but a majority of the collection wasretained. The collection has some water damage. One foot of material was discarded dueto mold. These were files of groups, 1970-71: most of California, and some of Minnesota,Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana.

Box 18, Folder ff 1 Correspondence and Forms (form letters and questionnaire forms)Folder ff 2 Win With Love, No. 1, July 1969Folder ff 3 No. 2, November 1969Folder ff 4 No. 3, March 1970Folder ff 5 No. 4, October 1970Folder ff 6 No. 5, June 1971Folder ff 7-69 Directory Files, 1969-70

ArrangementArranged by organization alphabetically

Folder ff 70-76 Directory Correspondence, 1969-72

ArrangementArranged by state, then no order

Berkeley Free Church FilesFree Church Publications: Directory, "Win With Love: A Directory of the Liberated Church in America"...


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Alabama - District of ColumbiaBox 19, Folder ff1-29

Directory Correspondence (continued)

Florida - OverseasFolder ff 30-70 Directory Files, 1970-71

ArrangementArranged by state, then overseas by country, then organizations in no order

Alabama - CaliforniaBox 20 ff 1-89 Directory Files, 1970-71(continued) California - IllinoisBox 21, Folder ff1-126

Directory Files, 1970-71 (continued)

Illinois - New YorkBox 22, Folder ff1-147


New York - Utah Overseas: Australia - CanadaBox 23, Folder ff1-29


Overseas: Costa Rica - Scotland

Berkeley Free Church Financial Records, 1967-74Size: 2 ft.Location: 2/F/2Note:1 ff, Articles of Incorporation (State certificate), 1968: Small Collections Box, ff 5, 3/A/2ArrangementArranged chronologically

Box 24, Folder ff 1 Funding, Correspondence, 1967Folder ff 2 Receipts, 1967-71Folder ff 3 Bills Paid, 1967Folder ff 4 Pledge cards and sheets, 1967-68Folder ff 5 Financial Statements, 1967-68Folder ff 6 Funding, Correspondence, 1968Folder ff 7 Correspondence, Esther Davis, 1968-69Folder ff 8 Personnel, Stipends Paid, 1968-69Folder ff 9 Tax Exemption Correspondence, Forms and Information, 1968-70Folder ff 10 Check Stubs, 1968-69Folder ff 11 Donations Ledger Sheets, 1968-70 This is a sampling. Retained approximately 1/3

of total.Folder ff 12 Medical Insurance, 1968-71Folder ff 13 Financial Statements, 1968-71Folder ff 14-15 Bills Paid, 1968-71Folder ff 16 Funding, Correspondence, 1969Folder ff 17 Funding, JSAC (Joint Strategy and Action Committee, Episcopal) Proposal, 1969Folder ff 18-20 Publications: Bills Paid, 1969-71Folder ff 21 Bills, Reimbursements, 1969-70Folder ff 22 Church Pension Fund, 1969-70Folder ff 23 Non-Profit Status, 1969Folder ff 24 Receipts, 1969-70 (including money solicited [i.e., panhandled] from the street for

Sunday dinners)Folder ff 25 Submarine Church Funding, 1970Folder ff 26 Check Stubs, 1970-71Folder ff 27 IRS, 1970-72

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Folder ff 28 Funding, Correspondence, 1971Folder ff 29 Funding, United Thank Offering, 1971Folder ff 30 Bills and Receipts, 1971Folder ff 31 Funding, Endorsement Letters, 1971-72Folder ff 32 American Savings, Account Pass Book, 1971-72Folder ff 33 Check Stubs, 1971-74Folder ff 34 Funding, Correspondence, 1972Folder ff 35 Funding, Jean Weaver, 1972Folder ff 36 Paid Accounts, 1973Folder ff 37 Wells Fargo Bank Statements, 1973Folder ff 38 Church Pension Fund, 1973Folder ff 39 Dissolution, South Campus Ministry, 1974Box 25 6 Ledger Books 2 small books: Free Church Publications, 1969-71 2 books: Berkeley Free Church, 1967-72 1 file folder: Pages from a ledger book, 1973 Submarine Church Files, 1969-72

Size: 1 ft.Location: 2/F/3ArrangementNo order

Box 26, Folder ff 1 Free Church, 1969-71Folder ff 2 Free Church, c. 1972Folder ff 3 St. Louis Camp Meeting, 1970Folder ff 4 Press Clippings, 1970Folder ff 5 Liberated Church Convention, Kansas City, 1969Folder ff 6 Presbyterian General Assembly, Chicago, 1970Folder ff 7 Jonathan's Wake, 1969-70Folder ff 8 Episcopal General Convention, Houston, 1970Folder ff 9 Sub Myth, c. 1970Folder ff 10 Presbyterian General Assembly, Denver, 1972Folder ff 11 Nashville Camp Meeting, 1971Folder ff 12 Misc. 1970Folder ff 13 Correspondence, 1969-70Folder ff 14 Cassette Orders (SubChurch at General Assembly), 1970Folder ff 15 Bills, Outstanding, c. 1970Folder ff 16 Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1970Folder ff 17 Liberated Church Press, 1969Folder ff 18 Liberated Church Press Vol. 1, no. 1-4, July-September 1969 Vol. 2, no. 1-4, October -December 1969Folder ff 19 Submarine Church Press, March-April, 1970Folder ff 20 Submarine Church Press, May, June, August, 1970Folder ff 21 Submarine Church Press, September, November, 1970Folder ff 22 Sub Network Mailing Lists, n.d.Folder ff 23 Sub Network Press Material, 1970Folder ff 24 Sub Network Subscription Letters, A-M, 1969Folder ff 25 Sub Network Subscription Letters, N-Z, 1969Folder ff 26-27 Sub Network, Network Communications, Incoming, 1969-71Folder ff 28 Sub Network, Network Communications, Outgoing, 1970Folder ff 29 Sub Network, Network Literature, 1970Folder ff 30 Sub Network, Subscription Requests, 1970Folder ff 31 Sub Network, Receipts, 1969-70Folder ff 32 Issues, Church InvestmentsFolder ff 33 Issues, Women, 1970-71Folder ff 34 Issues, "The Minister as Wounded Healer", Nouwen

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Folder ff 35 Issues, SCAN (Submarine Church Action Network) Plans, c. 1970Folder ff 36 Issues, Radical Jews, 1969Folder ff 37 Issues, Hippies, 1967-68Folder ff 38-39 Guidelines for Ministry with Young Adults, Presbyterian Church, 1969-70Folder ff 40-41 Youth Adult Advocates, 1969-70Folder ff 42 "Fuck Hate", SFTS Newsletter, 1970Folder ff 43 Original Graphics, Photographs, c. 1969-70 People's Park Files, 1969

Size: 1 ft.Location: 2/F/3Note(See also: Box 3, ff 46-49; Box 6, ff 19-27; Box 10; Box 15, ff 27-43; Box 16, ff 1-2)Note:1 ff oversize flyers and posters in Small Collections Folio 1, 3/C/4


Leaflets 1 (from 3-ring binder)Note:1 ff legal size, taken from 3-ring binder, title "Leaflets 2" in Small Collections Box 3, ff 4,3/A/2

Folder ff 4 Ramparts Magazine, August 1969Folder ff 5 "A People's Park Chronology: From 1967 to May 30, 1969"Folder ff 6 James Yandell, "Neither Law Nor Order"Folder ff 7 General articles, including a People's Park Diary by Emily BrownFolder ff 8 ArticlesFolder ff 9 Window DecalsFolder ff 10-27 Newspapers on People's Park Daily Californian, 6 issues, May 16-April 9, 1969 Good Time Bishiston Rock Grassroots Willamette Bridge Independent Socialist Win Free University Berkeley Catalgog Student Action El Gaucho, University of California, Santa Barbara The Movement Peoples Park Crisis (Radical Student Union and Park Negotiating Committee) Peninsula Observer Berkeley Barb, September 1968 -July 1969Folder ff 28-44 General Newspapers, not relating to People's Park Health Rights News Plain Rapper Capitalism Stinks Catholic Worker ACLU News, San Francisco Leviathan The Daily Golden Gater, San Francisco State Vietnam: Fight for Freedom (UCB Radical Student Union) New Left News Los Angeles Free Press San Francisco Openings Jewish Radical Dock of the Bay The Bay Blimp

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The Catholic Radical Anti Fascist Front SDS Educational Packet Stelmach Dissertation Research Files

Size: 3 ft.Location: 2/F/2-2/F/3, 1/H/4Note"The Cult of Liberation: The Berkeley Free Church and the Radical Church Movement,1967-72", Harlan D.A. Stelmach: Dissertation for the Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union,Berkeley, CA, 1977.


South Campus Community Ministry/Berkeley Free Church filesScope and Content NoteMaterials which Harlan Stelmach gathered into six 3-ring binders,each binder a separateyear, 1967-72. Each binder is divided into sections: executive committee minutes, staffminutes, board minutes, financial reports, other reports, and miscellaneous.

Box 29, Folder ff 1 Stelmach meeting notes, 1973-75Folder ff 2 Miscellaneous Flyers, Board Notices, Brochures, undatedFolder ff 3 Miscellaneous unsorted, undated, 1975

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Folder ff 5-35 Personal Interviews, 1974-76: Persons involved in some way with the Berkeley FreeChurch. Alphabetical.

NoteGlee Bishop SmithCarl BangsJoy BolGlenn ClarkeFred CodyThorne CorseEsther DavisJohn GallagherNorman GottwaldBill GraceLyle GrosjeanJames GuinanLoni HancockMelinda HarleyPeter HaynesGene HornDavid HowardLester KinsolvingRobert MarchCharlene MeredithAnthony MorleyRichard RautioRichard RiemerGus SchultzPeter SiersmaPhyllis and Otto SmithJim and Lynne SoderbergGeorge ToddJohn TurpinJean and John WeaverIsabel Weissman

Box 30, Folder ff 1 July 4, 1968 Crises, Don Buteyn's FileFolder ff 2 York's Flyer File, copies, 1969-71Folder ff 3 Correspondence, Misc., 1969-74Folder ff 4 Women's Project Proposal, Free Church Collective, 1972Folder ff 5 Documentation Center (Stelmach's notes on formation), 1972Folder ff 6 Radical Religion Form Letter, 1973Box 32 ,Audio-Cassettes 38

Interviews for dissertation. (Restricted access until 2025) 1973-1975

Box 33 Additional dissertation materials obtained November 2012. 1967-1976Folder ff 1 Responses to conclusion 1975Folder ff 2 Tony Nugent 1974-76Folder ff 3 Dick York 1969-75Folder ff 4 Don Buteyn 1969Folder ff 5 Notes on Chapter 7 1975-76Folder ff 6 Notes for Revisions 1975-79Folder ff 7 John Pairman Brown 1967-69

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Folder ff 8 Official Responses to Dissertation 1977 Jan 25Folder ff 9 Rick Boylen 1975Folder ff 10 Review of Coming of Post-Industrial Impact 1975Folder ff 11 Swidler, The Concept of Rationalityin the work of Max Weber 1969Folder ff 12 Charles Glock, To Comfort and to Challenge 1967Folder ff 13 Barbara Hargrove, New Wine? New Bottles? undatedFolder ff 14 James Wolfe, Comprehensive on Ernst Troeltsch undatedFolder ff 15 Norman Gottwald, Early Israel undatedFolder ff 16 Charles Glock, The Religious Dimension 1975Folder ff 17 John Coleman, Civil Religion and Liberation Theology 1975Folder ff 18 Charles Glock, Images of God 1972Folder ff 19 Notes on Conclusion undatedFolder ff 20 Early Diagrams undatedFolder ff 21 Darrol Bryant, Beyond Messianism 1973Folder ff 22 William Stahl,The Politics of Identity 1977Folder ff 23 Robert Bellah, The Five Religions of Modern Italy undatedFolder ff 24 Chapter II, Additions 1967Folder ff 25 Chapter IV undatedFolder ff 26 Chapter V, First Draft 1970Folder ff 27 Chronological Documents. Chapter 6 1971-72Folder ff 28 Chapter 6, First Draft 1976Folder ff 29 Chapter 7 - Notes undatedFolder ff 30 Reading Notes-Chapter 7 undatedFolder ff 31 William Ray, University Christian Movement 19721976Folder ff 32 Robert Bellah, American Civil Religion in the 1970s undatedFolder ff 33 Dick Howard, The Unknown Dimension 1972Folder ff 34 Individual Projects 1971-72Folder ff 35 Danforth Associates, Yosemite 1973Folder ff 36 Erdnans 1984Folder ff 37 Political Indicators undatedFolder ff 38 Wuthnow and Glock , The Religious Experieince, A QuestionairePsychology Today

Survey 1973 DecFolder ff 39 Charles Glock, Religious Consciousness amond American Youth 1971Folder ff 40 St. Mark Community 1967Folder ff 41 Paul A Baran 1960sFolder ff 42 New Left and New Religions- Thoughts undatedFolder ff 43 Robert Bellah, Contemporary Meaning of Kamakura Buddhissm 1973Folder ff 44 New Consciousness Survey undatedFolder ff 45 New Religious Consciousness Working Group 1972Folder ff 46 New Consciousness Presentation undatedFolder ff 47 Self Study undatedFolder ff 48 Action/Reaction 1971 FallFolder ff 49 Stephen Hart, 75 Years of St. Marks Episcopal Church 1972Folder ff 50 Interview Schedule for New Religious Council 1972Folder ff 51 New Religious Council Proposal 1971Folder ff 52 Personal Notes UndatedFolder ff 53 Thoughts-New Religions UndatedFolder ff 54 Stephen Hart articles 1969-1972Folder ff 55 Groups to Visit 1970sFolder ff 56 Charles Glock, Notes undatedFolder ff 57 Bibliography 1969Folder ff 58 Methods Course 1972Folder ff 59 Cologium Presentation-Beyond Anti-apitalism undatedFolder ff 60 New Religious Consciousness 1970-72Folder ff 61 Alternative Institutions 1970sBox 34 Set of index card notes for dissertation and two cassettes discussing dissertation

with Norman Gottwald.1969-1976