Archives

Since 1938, some six years before the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology (FCRP) was officially founded in 1943, its members began to amass a rich assortment of archival materials.  The records of FCRP are on this website, on an FCRP Archives website at https://fcrp-archive.org/, and in the collections of the Friends Historical Library (FHL) at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

 

In 2025, the FCRP Collaborative began assembling on this website the FCRP Conference Archives, including an Index of Plenary Speakers, audio recordings of some of the speakers., and an Index of Conference Programs from 1943 to 1989.  Efforts are also underway to add a full run of back issues of the official FCRP journal, Inward Light, initially published from 1937 to 1989, and relaunched in 2024.  Currently, audio recordings of some of the Plenary Speakers and some issues of Inward Light are available on the FCRP Archives site at https://fcrp-archive.org/. 

Additionally, the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College is the official repository of FCRP records.  From 1938, and primarily from 1943 to 1997, FCRP members have donated member lists, meeting minutes, conference handouts and evaluations, speaker topics, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings of plenary speakers, and website content.  Among the digital files are also some records for the Washington Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology.  A description of the collection is online at   https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/4093corp, and the identifying number for the FCRP collection is SFHL-RG4-093.  Contact information for FHL is online at https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library.