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| Remembrances of the Central Jurisdiction |
Speaker(s): William McClain |
Description: Rev. Dr. William B. "Bobbie" McClain (1938-2020) talks about his personal experience in the Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church. This recording is from a series of interviews conducted by Pamela Crosby at a 2004 reunion of persons who were part of the Central Jurisdiction. McClain has a rich Methodist heritage. His Alabama ancestors founded the Sweet Home Methodist Church in 1872, and he was ordained in the Central Alabama Conference of the Central Jurisdiction. Having led churches in Alabama before the abolition of the jurisdiction, he remembers the fellowship within its structure with fondness and appreciation but says, "Black people were abused and insulted and disappointed that the church was not willing to be one church." McClain was the Mary Elizabeth Joyce professor of preaching and worship at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington. | Length: 2:16 | Recording Date: 8/28/2004 | Recorded at: College Park, Georgia |
