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: Jose Yglesias (1919-1995) was an American novelist and journalist. His parents were from Cuba and he was raised in Florida. Yglesias wrote fiction about Latinos and nonfiction about life in Latin America and Spain. Just prior to this program, he published the book, "In the Fist of the Revolution" in which he chronicled the hopes of the townspeople of Mayari following the revolution. Yglesias had just returned from a trip to Cuba. This program came eight years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and while the U.S. maintained a blockade on Cuba. They discuss the socialism being practiced in Cuba, American journalism approaches to Cuba, reasons people were leaving Cuba, and the positives and negatives of life in Cuba.

Length: 59:02
Recording Date: January 23, 1969
Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City