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:

Catholics, Birth Control, and Dissent in the Roman Catholic Church

Speaker(s): Robert Hoyt, Del Shields (host)

Description: In the summer of 1968, Pope Paul VI released an encyclical titled "Humanae vitae: On the Regulaton of Birth." The document reaffirmed the church's prohibition of all forms of artificial contraception. Robert G. Hoyt (1922-2003) was an American journalist. In 1964, Hoyt founded the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper focusing on the Catholic Church, because he wanted to bring the professional standards of secular news reporting to the Catholic press. Its circulation went to 100,000 in just a few years, leading other Catholic newspapers to adopt its probing standards of journalism as well. Hoyt left the newspaper in 1970. From 1977 to 1985, he was executive editor and subsequently editor in chief of Christianity & Crisis, a liberal ecumenical journal. The National Catholic Reporter openly questioned the social regulations of the church. Callers ask questions and voice both support and opposition to the birth control prohibition.

Length: 59:09
Recording Date: December 6, 1968
Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City