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Tall, gimlet-eyed, Alabama-born J.Frank Norris, 69, rejoices in his ecclesiastical reputation as the "stormy petrel of the Southwest," and sees to it that the description keeps up-to-date. In his church study at Fort Worth in 1926, the Rev. Mr. Norris killed an unarmed political enemy by...
A few years later, a jury acquitted him of burning down his church. Meanwhile, Fundamentalist Norris' tobacco-denouncing, hallelujah-shouting following grew bigger & bigger: by 1935 he was shepherding one congregation in Detroit, another in Fort Worth, commuting between them by plane.
Most Northern Baptists sighed with relief when Pastor Norris took Detroit's large Temple Baptist Church out of the Northern Baptist Convention, which he accused of "communistic, unscriptural and socialistic leadership." But he became a perennial heckler at Southern Baptist conventions. Delegates, called "messengers," are allotted on the basis...
This year, Pastor Norris sent the Southern Baptists his personal check for $250, got his credentials.
"Throw Him Out!" The day before the convention opened, its president, the Rev. Louie D. Newton of Atlanta, Ga., climbed to the rostrum in St. Louis' Second Baptist Church to tell 1,000 of his fellow pastors how nice he had found it in Russia last summer (TIME, Aug...