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: Otis Woodard ( 1939-2015) was a civil rights worker, active with civil rights organizations including the Congress of Racial Equality. He rode on the Freedom Buses and had his shoulder broken when one of the buses carrying both white and black people was stopped by the Klan and the police. Woodard experienced hunger as a young person, and promised that if he ever had food he would share it. Later on, he distributed over 5,000 pounds of food a day in impoverished North St. Louis from what was called Otis Woodard's Lutheran Outreach. From a small table in his front yard, offering canned goods and whatever he could get donated to those who showed up saying they needed help. The radio program, "Scan," was nationally-syndicated, airing in the U.S. and around the world from 1975 to 1991. This program features first-person stories of individuals who share their lived-out wisdom.

Length: 22:43