Not Charles Emerson

Has Andrew Faiz been watching too many M*A*S*H* reruns lately? The founding minister of Riverside Church in New York was not Charles Emerson Fosdick but Harry Emerson Fosdick, the famous anti-evangelical of the first half of the 20th century. He was a Baptist clergyman who had served a Presbyterian pulpit as stated supply until the Presbytery of New York cancelled this arrangement due to his denial of central Christian teachings. Several wealthy donors (including John D. Rockefeller) then proceeded to build a magnifi cent non-denominational church in which Dr. Fosdick could preach: Riverside Church.