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:

Eugene Carson Blake on Meet The Press

Speaker(s): Eugene Carson Blake, Ned Brooks (moderator)

Description: This radio program was broadcast on Easter Sunday, 1956. The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (1906-1985) answers questions about his recent 10-day visit to the Soviet Union, where he led a delegation of church leaders to learn more about the effects of communism on religious freedom there. Blake was both chief executive of the Presbyterian Church, and the president of the National Council of Churches. He is peppered with questions by a panel of news reporters: Raymond P. Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May Craig of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Marquis Childs of the United Features Syndicate, and Laurence Spivak of Meet the Press. The original recording contains a news broadcast at the beginning, and a sports roundup at the end. They have been edited out of this version, as well as the breaks between the four original recording discs, leaving just the full interview of Rev. Dr. Blake.

Length: 24:36
Recording Date: April 11, 1956
Recorded at: NBC Studios