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:

Meditation on Baptism

Speaker(s): Calvin McConnell

Description: Bishop Calvin McConnell presents the Monday evening meditation at the 1985 United Methodist Conference on Ministry with Children. The event was called "Focus." Here, he explains the significance of baptism while relating the story of picking up a hitchhiker in Boulder, Colorado; and being required to learn Latin while in High School. He talks about baptism as "choosing the gift of God to be recreated" and "as a way to plug-in and be alive." McConnell was elected a bishop in the United Methodist Church in 1980.

Length: 20:23
Recording Date: 1985
Recorded at: unknown