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:

Remembrances of the Central Jurisdiction

Speaker(s): William McClain

Description: Rev. Dr. William B. "Bobbie" McClain (1938-2020) talks about his personal experience in the Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church. This recording is from a series of interviews conducted by Pamela Crosby at a 2004 reunion of persons who were part of the Central Jurisdiction. McClain has a rich Methodist heritage. His Alabama ancestors founded the Sweet Home Methodist Church in 1872, and he was ordained in the Central Alabama Conference of the Central Jurisdiction. Having led churches in Alabama before the abolition of the jurisdiction, he remembers the fellowship within its structure with fondness and appreciation but says, "Black people were abused and insulted and disappointed that the church was not willing to be one church." McClain was the Mary Elizabeth Joyce professor of preaching and worship at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington.

Length: 2:16
Recording Date: 8/28/2004
Recorded at: College Park, Georgia