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:

Description: David Hilfiker (1945- ) is a medical doctor who founded Joseph's House in 1990 for homeless men living with AIDS -- and envisioned it as a place where the lines between black and white, rich and poor, would be blurred.At the time of this sermon at Church of the Saviour, Hilfiker had been working with the poor in Washington, DC for more than 20 years. In this sermon, he was concerned about the world's issues that threaten us all. These include devastating weapons, global warming, dwindling resources for insatiable desires, and terrorism. His focus goes to the injustice that comes from our desire for affluence and power. He talks about poor decisions made by industry and government in a system that works for the wealthy and lacks concern for the poor. He sees the duty of Christians to move in a direction counter to the "empire" of powers around the world.

Length: 33:00
Recording Date: May 5, 2002
Recorded at: Church of the Saviour, Washington, DC