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:

New Directions in Race Relations

Speaker(s): Gayraud Wilmore, Metz Rollins, Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards (interviewer)

Description: This was a radio program of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) radio forum. Rev. Dr. Gayraud Wilmore (1921-2020) was the Executive Director of the Commission on Religion and Race of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA. He was an American writer, historian, ethicist, educator, and theologian, known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement and his scholarship related to the history of the African-American church and the history of African-American religious experience, as well as his contributions to black theology., and the Rev. Metz Rollins (1926-2009) civil rights activist and pastor, was the Associate Director of the commission. They are interviewed by Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards (1914-2004).

Length: 29:53
Recording Date: 1960