Clergy: Man for All Sects

Fundamentalism was on the defensive in the Roaring Twenties, and William Jennings Bryan, its principal spokesman, found himself under siege by the giants of the emerging Liberalism. He was attacked not only in the press by Henry Mencken and in the courtroom by Clarence Darrow, but even from the pulpit by a bright-eyed Baptist who had the temerity to question the virgin birth and the second coming of Christ.

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...

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