Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published by Harcourt in March 1927. Lewis did research for the novel by observing the work of various preachers in Kansas City in his so-called "Sunday School" meetings on Wednesdays. He first worked with William L. "Big Bill" Stidger (not Burris Jenkins), pastor of the Linwood Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Stidger introduced Lewis to many other clergymen, among them the Reverend L.M... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]
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Why We Should Tax the Churches
Source: Big ThinkMost of these Elmer Gantry-types preach a theology called the "prosperity gospel". The basic idea of this is that God wants to shower you with riches, but only if you first "plant a seed of faith" by giving your church as much money as you ...
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How Marxism Killed Keystone
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Over-rated Redford and the Sundance kidding
Source: PerthNowAnd it’s also because I watched, again, two brilliant Burt Lancaster films, being “The Sweet Smell of Success”, where he plays a black-hearted, possibly incestuous, oppressive and powerful newspaper columnist; and “Elmer Gantry”, in which he’s ...
