“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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About Harry Emerson Fosdick

Pastor • American

Harry Emerson Fosdick was a prominent American pastor and a central figure in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy of the early 20th century. Serving as the pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church and later the...

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