Just finished watching Elmer Gantry. The female lead loosely based on Aimee Semple McPherson.
Love checking out the multiple links. Didn’t realize how much it differed from the book.
In some things she was rather progressive and groundbreaking, and she also helped bring about denominations carving out their turf as a business while having an ecumenical outreach whose alliances would wax and wane.
She debated a famous atheist of the day. His court cases were interesting.
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In 1937 Smith took over as an editor of The Truth Seeker, a free-thought magazine in New York City, where he continued as editor until his 1964 death.[12] During his editorship, he subtitled The Truth Seeker as "The Journal for Reasoners and Racists".[13]
This publication had a great early period, hit some twisted racist years, and then returned somewhat proudly.
Wasn't aware they survived to the present