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:

The Switching of Robes and Hoods: The Ethical Praxis of Zora Neale Hurston

Speaker(s): Katie Cannon, John Carroll

Description: Speech given at the installation of The Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon as the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary-PSCE. The installation was led by John Carroll, dean of the theology faculty. At 7:32 in this recording, Cannon delivers her inaugural address, speaking about ethical lessons learned from the true story of Ruby McCollum, whose trial Zora Neale Hurston covered for the Pittsburgh Courier in 1952 and 1953. Cannon was the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church. She was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York in theology. And she's the first African-American woman to serve on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia.

Length: 34:51
Recording Date: 2004
Recorded at: Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond VA