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...Fearless Fosdick. Humphrey knows that a major element in this reversal is a conservative reaction to racial tension, crime, high taxes and the anti-poverty program. "I won't pander to it," he declares. "We're not going to out-Nixon Nixon, and we're not going to out-Wallace Wallace. We're going to say it like it is." To blunt Nixon's attacks on the crime issue, Humphrey argues that police and the courts must receive more material assistance in doing their jobs. He also argues that the problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction...
Some religious leaders are mighty hard acts to follow. What Pope, for example, would seem charismatic after John XXIII? When Harry Emerson Fosdick retired as minister of Manhattan's interdenominational, cathedral-size Riverside Church in 1946, many Christian leaders wondered how its pulpit committee could possibly find the right man to succeed the nation's best-known liberal Protestant preacher. Last week, when Fosdick's successor announced his intention to retire in June because of a heart condition, the same kind of question was asked: Where could the committee find a proper successor to the Rev. Robert...
...Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator...
Wealth & Heresy. Even today, some of McCracken's old parishioners still refer to Riverside as "Fosdick's church," and with some reason: it was built for him by John D. Rockefeller Jr. After Fosdick, charged with heresy, had resigned from Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church in 1925, Rockefeller offered him the pulpit of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, of which he was a trustee. When Fosdick hesitated, Rockefeller asked him why. "Because I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," Fosdick said. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think more...
...cost of more than $5,000,000, Rockefeller happily created Riverside Church-a stately imitation of Chartres Cathedral, whose 22-story bell tower dominates Morningside Heights. During Fosdick's pastorate, the church ministered primarily to the intellectual community near Columbia. Under McCracken, Riverside has become involved in trying to solve the problems of a declining neighborhood. Membership-now at an alltime high of 3,500-includes Negro and Puerto Rican poor as well as university professors. The church's seven-man staff of ministers has helped sponsor integrated housing, runs a preschool program and adult-education classes...