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...Baptists famed for liberalism in theology: first among them is Manhattan's Harry Emerson Fosdick. Many have wondered why he called himself a Baptist at all. The answer seemed to be: because he was pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church...
Last week the name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended...
...panel from the "Reformer's Window", soon to be placed in the new Riverside church in New York City, which is being built for the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D., by John D. Rockefeller, has been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum...
...general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago), one in Maryland (Baltimore's Bureau of Contraceptive...
Also last week Dr. Fosdick held informal dedication of the finished part of the Riverside Church. First in the opening program was a 65? supper, cooked in the church's large kitchen, served in the gymnasium to 500 church members...