Why Is the Riverside Church’s Century-Old Preschool on the Chopping Block?
A century ago, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., asked an iconoclastic preacher of the Social Gospel, Harry Emerson Fosdick, to lead the Baptist church that he attended on Park Avenue. Fosdick initially demurred, saying, “I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country.” But he overcame these compunctions,…
