Religion: The Fundamentalist

In its theology, Manhattan's famed old (founded in 1825 ) Broadway Presbyterian Church is conservative: its ministers have always been evangelical, fundamentalists who adhere strictly to the Westminster Confession. By contrast, the Presbytery of New York—a group of ministers and elders from Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island who form a sort of churchly senate—tends toward liberalism; influenced by the open-mindedness of Union Theological Seminary, it is one of the forward-looking branches of the United Presbyterian Church. Over the years, the presbytery has more and more frowned upon the Broadway Church, especially since the church serves the city's intellectual center: Columbia...