Voices of Faith at Work in the World

About this Collection

The historical religion programs in this collection came from the archives, library shelves, and back rooms of many organizations. Faith groups represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, United Church of Christ, United Methodist, and others.

This SoundTheology online archive is an independent service of Audio-Rescue.com, provided in conjunction with the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH). Many of these programs would have been lost forever if not saved in this project. The originating institutions have made the recordings available for public access to further private study, scholarship, and research. They retain the rights to the recordings.

This audio collection has been chosen for inclusion in the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force Sound Collection Database.

Randomly-chosen Program From This Collection:

Who's Going to Run the Universities?

Speaker(s): David Truman, Del Shields (host)

Description: Dr. David B. Truman (1913-2003) was vice-president of Columbia University in New York City in 1968. Students had recently revolted at the university over the extent of government defense contracts, and the construction of a university gymnasium on a public park. Truman says the students have a right to question, but not to deny education to others. Caller questions relate to current status of the university, whether unrest at Columbia is related to unrest at universities in other nations, which faculty members can vote on policies, if young people are given too much, whether trustees run the university, why build a gymnasium in a public park, and are the faculty and trustees listening to student concerns?

Length: 58:57
Recording Date: June 25, 1968
Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City