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:

White Racism or World Community?

Speaker(s): James Baldwin

Description: James Baldwin, speaking to the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden. Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Baldwin strongly criticized the white Christian church for its lack of moral integrity and misuse of power. He said, if you are born under the circumstances under which Black people are born, the destruction of the Christian church may be not only desirable, but necessary. Even in the midst of his harsh criticism of the church, Baldwin was well received at this gathering of 704 representatives of 235 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches.

Length: 29:35
Recording Date: July 7, 1968
Recorded at: World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden