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Last week Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, liberalist extraordinary, saw one of his dearest ambitions approach its fulfillment when the cornerstone of his new Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was set in place. Before Dr. Fosdick accepted the call to this pastorate in 1925, he made several express stipulations. Among these were: a) that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity, b) that Baptist rites and doctrines not be insisted on, c) that the new church be constructed somewhere near Columbia University. The trustees of the richest Baptist congregation in the world agreed to Dr. Fosdick...
...Frank Norris, fundamentalist extraordinary, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems...
Three years ago, in Argyle, Ill., Pastor Edgar Smith organized a picnic. At the picnic, he chose 31 of the 40 people who live in Argyle to sing in his choir. At first their anthems were jerky. Then they improved. They were asked to give concerts in the towns and villages near Argyle...
...know Beecher-and he is in the vast majority- you give the impression that he was both a rogue and a fool. I wondered at times whether I was reading a review of Henry Ward Beecher or Elmer Gantry. You put them in the same class. "Uncouth. . . buffoon. . . pastor of a flock of golden sheep . . . women fainted when he shouted and roared. . . met charges with a stupid sarcasm." I say I have not read Hibben's book, but if you have reviewed it fairly it must be the most unsympathetic and prejudiced study of a man in the whole...