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. The majority, 1,031 recordings, are from United Methodist national agencies, annual conferences, seminaries, and other sources.

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:

Racism and Hypocrisy

Speaker(s): Ralpy Abernathy, John Reynolds (introduction)

Description: Former member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference John Reynolds introduces the Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990) who discusses Angela Davis, the cancerous disease of racism, and the hypocrisy of our democracy. This lecture was sponsored primarily by the Brown Committee to Free Angela Davis. Abernathy was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott and co-created and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Length: 1:30:40
Recording Date: March 1, 1972
Recorded at: Brown University, Providence RI