(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.

Harry Emerson Fosdick is dead at the age of ninety-one. The longtime minister of New York’s Riverside Church, which was built for him by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was deeply embroiled in the famous ...

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 ...

When he was a fuzzy-haired sophomore at Colgate, Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote to his parents: “I am throwing over my old idea of the universe. I am building another—and leaving God out.” Something went ...