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...Years later, at a great banquet, a bald-headed toastmaster referred to this personal feature. Replying to the introduction, Dr. Fosdick pleaded that hair that was knitted was better than hair that...
...student and teacher, Dr. Fosdick soon discovered that a great many people were sidetracking Christianity. Either they ignored it altogether, or else they kept it strictly apart from their practical everyday lives. This Dr. Fosdick analyzed as the chief cause of their unhappy discontent...
Studying, teaching, Dr. Fosdick became more convinced as years passed that intellectual objections to Christianity were without foundation. Jesus never said he was born of a virgin. Jesus may have believed the Biblical account of creation, but he never said that Genesis was inerrant. Jesus promised resurrection but he never guaranteed that a man with blue eyes on earth would have the same blue eyes in heaven. In short, Dr. Fosdick found nothing in the religion of Jesus which is not as worthy of belief today as it was in Jesus' time...
...Fosdick accepted the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church. There he confronted a restless, skeptical, materially minded world with the ancient and eternal verities of religion...
...this point the fundamentalists attacked him. The issue was joined between an "inclusive" and a "divisive" church. Dr. Fosdick has become the hero of the former, holding out to thousands the hope that as soon as they earnestly seek God, they are already "not far from the Kingdom...