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:

Description: Dr. Robert S. Bilheimer (1917-2006) was an American Presbyterian theologian and in 1963 was serving as the Assistant General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Here, he spoke about the recent (1962) ecumenical meeting on Faith and Order held in Montreal. It was the fourth world meeting on faith and order. The earlier ones were in 1927, 1937, and 1952. Bilheimer is introduced by Albert Outler, then begins to speak at 2:28. Bilheimer later wrote the books "A Spirituality for the Long Haul: Biblical Risk and Moral Stand" in which he provides a biblical basis for resisting oppression (1984) and "Breakthrough: The Emergence of the Ecumenical Tradition" (1989).

Length: 44:58
Recording Date: 8/5/1963
Recorded at: Lake Junaluska, North Carolina