The L. Carlyle Marney Sermon Collection is located at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. The collection consists of nine sermons published in pamphlet form by the Friends of First Baptist Church, Austin, Texas, from 1950 to 1952. The majority of Marney’s personal papers are located at Duke University.
L. Carlyle Marney was born July 8, 1916, in Harriman, Tennessee. Marney attended Carson-Newman College in Johnson City, Tennessee, on a football scholarship. After graduating from Carson-Newman, Marney was pastor of churches in Bristol and Kingsport, Tennessee. While at Kingsport, Marney met and married Rita Elizabeth Christopher. The Marneys moved to Louisville, Kentucky, for Marney to attend the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned the Master of Theology degree in church history in 1943 and the Doctor of Theology in 1946. After seminary, Marney served churches in Paducah, Kentucky; Austin, Texas; and Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1967, he founded Interpreter’s House in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, a retreat center for ministers and laypersons. Marney wrote more than a dozen books that challenged readers to live out the demands of the gospel in spite of traditional expectations. He had a weekly television and radio program entitled “These Things Remain” (the title of one of his books). He also served on the Editorial Council of Theology Today. Marney died July 8, 1978.
