Here is the Time cover story on Fosdick and Riverside from October 6, 1930.

Fist - Thank you Lance. I think this another way for us to mature spiritually.

The church I grew up in quoted Harry Emerson Fosdick frequently. So, this is kind of like old home week.

I don't hear about much church controversy today about either the virgin birth or the second coming.

I believe the fundamentalist controversy that is tearing churches and denominations apart today is homosexuality.

I'm not sure what I really believe about that.

My daughter's adoption was handled by an openly homosexual judge, a woman. That seemed kind of O.K. We talked about her partner and their children. This was in Madison.

Don Mandry

Here a couple of questions to kick off our discussion:

Overall, what do you think of the sermon's content and tone?

Do you think it would have been an effective sermon (whatever effect you think it was meant to have)?

Do you think any or all of the three topics Fosdick took on are indeed "fundamental" to the Christian faith and therefore by necessity to be thought of in the Fundamentalist way?

Let's start there, but comment on whatever strikes you.

For our first sermon discussion we are focusing on a sermon preached in 1922 during the modernist/fundamentalist controversy. Here is a link for some information on the controversy and a link to the sermon online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist-Modernist_Controversy

http://thomasephillips.info/fosdickshallthefundamentalistswin.htm

I will throw out some questions later tonight, but let the discussions begin!