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:

Iliff As I Knew It (History of Iliff School of Theology)

Speaker(s): Martin Rist

Description: Dr. Martin Rist (1896–1975) speaks of the origins of the Iliff School of Theology. He talks extensively of Bishop Henry White Warren, and Elizabeth Iliff Warren, and faculty over the years. Rist was a prominent American theologian, professor, and head librarian at the Iliff School of Theology. Beginning his tenure at Iliff in September 1936, he dedicated decades of service to the institution as both an educator and an archivist. As a long-time institutional archivist, Rist is frequently cited in historical accounts for cataloging and managing the controversial "John Lawson book"—a 19th-century volume of Christian history that was discovered to have been bound in the flayed skin of a murdered Lenape (Delaware) man. The book was eventually returned to American Indian representatives and laid to rest in 1974.

Length: 40:42
Recording Date: 1976?
Recorded at: Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado