Press Clippings
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Tolbert on NY Times 'Mob Ad'
Stringfellow interviewed by Fox News
Roland Stringfellow, CLGS coordinator of the Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations, told Fox News that he has heard of African American individuals being harassed for the passage of Prop 8, but that many are using the Mormon Church as a scapegoat for their anger.
Liu on Climate Change Efforts
Liu Xiaogan, George Russell Tolson Visiting Professor at PSR, said the environment was linked to people's lives, "the values they are pursuing."
Prop. 8 opponents rally across California to protest gay-marriage ban
PSR adjunct professor Penny Nixon leads demonstrators in a group embrace in San Francisco in protest of Proposition 8.
Across U.S., Big Rallies for Same-Sex Marriage
PSR adjunct professor Penny Nixon is quoted in the New York Times on nationwide rallies for same-sex marriage.
Oakland church makes history
Article on First Congregational Church of Oakland, which installed PSR alumna Lynice Pinkard as senior pastor on November 9. PSR executive assistant Marjorie Wilkes preached.
Stringfellow in SF Chronicle
In an article cataloging the efforts of religious groups to pass Prop. 8, Roland Stringfellow, PSR's CLGS Coordinator for the Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations, offers his thoughts on the religious effort to defeat the measure and the reception of those efforts by the No on Prop. 8 campaign.
Alumnus author becomes publisher
Alumnus Phillip A. Ross, who has six books in print, recently co-founded a publishing service, Pilgrim Platform Books.
Former SF pastor returns to Bay Area
New Spirit Community Church, which meets Sundays in the PSR Chapel of the Great Commission, welcomes Jim Mitulski to the pulpit. Mitulski is the former longtime pastor of Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco and has been on an 8-year hiatus from the pulpit, during which he spent time working with MCC churches in the midwest and southern US, as well as AIDS ministries in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Former trustee shares thoughts on election
Hubert Locke, former chair of the PSR Board of Trustees, shares his thoughts on the presidential election in a moving letter to his late father.