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  • This statement of Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick is indicative of a new critical approach to vital problems.

    Education for a Classless Society 1969

  • This statement of Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick is indicative of a new critical approach to vital problems.

    Education for a Classless Society 1940

  • This statement of Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick is indicative of a new critical approach to vital problems.

    Education for a Classless Society 1940

  • "God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done," said the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick.

    Rick Hamlin: Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things? Rick Hamlin 2010

  • "God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done," said the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick.

    Rick Hamlin: Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things? Rick Hamlin 2010

  • Yet even a seemingly masculine bomber, like Fearless Fosdick (named for the Dick Tracy-like character featured in the Li'l Abner cartoon strip) or Butcher Boy, was imagined to be female.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • Mike Fontanelli wrote a great introduction to cartoon great and unrepentant hippy hater Al Capp and his Dick Tracy parody, Fearless Fosdick.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The post includes the first 20 pages (scanned in high res) of the first Fearless Fosdick story, "The Poisoned Bean Case."

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Harry Emerson Fosdick, first pastor of the historic interdenominational Riverside Church in New York City, who lived from 1878 to 1969, said, “Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • Harry Emerson Fosdick, first pastor of the historic interdenominational Riverside Church in New York City, who lived from 1878 to 1969, said, “Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

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