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Instead of being smitten for heresy, the preacher-much to Bryan's chagrin -thrived and became famous. Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" flayed oldtime religionists for intolerance and became a rallying cry in U.S. Protestantism's biggest battle. By the time the conflict ended, Bryan and his beliefs had been repudiated by increasingly sophisticated Christians, while Fosdick had been elevated to the pulpit of New York's famed Riverside Church. There he remained, counseling and preaching, for 16 years until his retirement in 1946. And there he was eulogized last...
...Skinner, 27, once had 22 notches on his knife handle for all of the "cuts" he had inflicted on enemies by the time he was a 14-year-old gang leader of the Harlem Lords. Now an ordained minister of the National Baptist Convention, the 215-lb., gravel-voiced preacher traces his vocation to an intense conversion experience-when he accidentally heard a radio gospel broadcast while planning a gang rumble. Skinner thinks evangelical churches must lead the fight for social justice because it "takes regeneration from Jesus Christ to change society...
Though Arthur, the son of a Baptist preacher, was only 15, he was thrown in with adult convicts at the Leflore County prison farm. There a Negro "trusty" named Columbus Williams, who was serving time for assault and battery with intent to kill, was entrusted with a 12-gauge shotgun to guard other prisoners. One day Williams led a chain gang into the countryside to repair a bridge. During a lunch break, he ordered a prisoner to fetch him a rag to clean his shoes. The man refused, and Williams turned to Arthur, who also refused...
...plant that the prison guard gave him) So I hated life sayeth the preacher (Before we had "classics" & before "machines...
...smallest projects these days are complete university campuses, his largest embrace thousands of square miles, such as the River Plate Basin Development Program, involving new towns and transportation in five South American countries. A better stimulator of ideas than he is a designer, he is also a tireless preacher of the notion that ekistics must include many different disciplines...