(RNS) — On May 21, 1922, a liberal minister in the pulpit of New York’s First Presbyterian Church preached one of the most important sermons in American history. It also cost him his job. The Rev.

Pinkerton detectives guarding Manhattan’s practically completed Riverside Church last week straightened to attention, craftsmen made a show of their slow assiduity, as a small, stocky, energetic, ...

It was quite a birthday present: $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller III to establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union’s annual alumni dinner this ...

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 ...

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While Mr. Bryan, Dr. McCartney and others may carry on from the, floor, and try to see that the ten overtures against Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick are pushed to the extreme, the real battle will be ...

Gradually extra-creedal Christianity begins to put its substance into shape. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick has long preached the “religion of Jesus” in contrast to the “religion about Jesus,” and the ...

There used to be Sunday mornings in fair-lawned Montclair, N. J. when prosperous commuters, resting from their labors, dallied over the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick. He was queer, discussible, young.

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