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:

An Adoptive Mother with Shared Pain

Speaker(s): Carolyn Koons, Hal Dragseth (announcer)

Description: Carolyn A. Koons was the victim of abusive parents. Her mother was a prostitute, her father a violent alcoholic. Koons migrated from place to place with her nomadic family. In her teens, virtually abandoned, psychically damaged, and without roots. She was befriended by an adult who involved her in a Christian community where she achieved inner healing. Koons later became professor of Christian education at a Southern California university. As an adult, she, found and adopted a child who was in a Mexican prison. She discovered that the damage done to him at an early age matched her childhood pain, and together they found redemption. The radio program, "Scan," was nationally-syndicated, airing in the U.S. and around the world from 1975 to 1991. This program features first-person stories of individuals who share their lived-out wisdom.

Length: 40:35