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: Bishop Arthur J. Moore (1888-1974) speaks to the closing session of the 1971 Virginia Annual Conference. He was introduced by Bishop William R. Cannon. From 1934 to 1940, Bishop Moore was in charge of missionary activities of the Methodist Church in China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the then Belgian Congo, Poland, and Korea, He then was assigned to the Atlanta area, where he remained until his retirement in 1960. Noted for his flaming oratory, he preached throughout the world during his ministerial career, converting thousands to Christianity with his sermons. Bishop Moore was president of the Board of Missions from 1940 to 1956 and president of the College of Bishops in 1951‐52. He was the author of many books, the last his autobiography, “Bishop to All Peoples,” published by Abingdon Press in 1973.

Length: 39:53
Recording Date: June 17, 1971
Recorded at: Norfolk, Virginia