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 Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr

Speaker(s): H. Gordon Harland, Wendell Luke, Bruce Stevens, William Gravely

Description: This was a program called "What Do You Mean?" aired on radio station WOR (New York) in March 1964, in cooperation with the Protestant Council of the City of New York and the New Jersey Council of Churches, and produced by the Theological School of Drew University. The moderator is Harold Brock. The guest panelists were Wendell Luke, Bruce Stevens, and William Gravely. Dr. Gordon Harland is the author of "The Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr" and several articles dealing with the role of religion in American and Canadian history. Harland taught at Drew University while completing his doctorate at in 1959. He left Drew in 1968 to found the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Length: 24:24
Recording Date: March 1964
Recorded at: Studio of Radio Station WOR, New York