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:

Remembering Integrating a Dallas Lunch Counter in 1960

Speaker(s): Richard Stewart, Mike Hickcox (reporter)

Description: The Rev. Dick Stewart had been an Army chaplain, a medical center chaplain, and had taught chaplains at a Texas seminary. Yet his life has always been defined, in part, by a day at the H. L. Green store in Dallas, Texas. It was the day that Stewart, a black seminary student, and two white seminary students sat down together at the lunch counter.

Length: 3:08
Recording Date: 3/16/1997
Recorded at: Spectrum Radio Religion News Studio, Rochester NH