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:

Profile: Emmanuel Cleaver

Speaker(s): Emanuel Cleaver, Hilly Hicks (narrator)

Description: Emanuel Cleaver, (1944-) U.S. Congressman and senior pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, shares his faith story. Cleaver began his political career as a City Councilman in Kansas City, and went on to make history by becoming their first African American mayor. He has pastored Saint James United Methodist Church for over 30 years, starting out in a small condemned building with 47 members, and is now in a new 8-million dollar building with over 2,000 members. He is a strong civil rights activist, and has worked alongside greats such as Ralph Abernathy, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and C.K. Steele. For seven consecutive years, Cleaver was named one of Ebony's "100 Most Influential African Americans." Recorded in 2005. Narrator is Hilly Hicks.

Length: 15:23
Recording Date: 2005
Recorded at: Nashville, Tennessee