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): Barbara Ricks Thompson

Description: Barbara Ricks Thompson talks about her personal experience in the Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church, and her hopes and expectations for the reunion. 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. Thompson is a lifelong Methodist, growing up with the support of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in the Washington area. She is retired as top staff executive of the denomination's Commission on Religion and Race and served as the president of the Commission on the Status and Role of Women. When the Central Jurisdiction held a reunion in August 2004, Thompson saw the event as an opportunity for African-American members to become re-energized, to move forward and gather collective knowledge in order to become a more vital part of the United Methodist Church. - UMNS photo by Mike DuBose.

Length: 1:52
Recording Date: 8/28/2004
Recorded at: College Park, Georgia