“The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.” _ Charles Clayton Morrison
It was purchased by CharlesClaytonMorrison, who continued publication and became a highly influential spokesman for liberal Christianity.
Morrison advocated higher criticism of the Bible, and the Social Gospel, which included concerns about child labor, women's suffrage, racism, war and pacifism, alcoholism and prohibition, environmentalism and many other political and social issues.
The magazine was a common target for criticism by fundamentalists during the Fundamentalist - Modernist debate of the early 20th century.
I would, therefore, be quite happy, were it not for one disturbing fact: the new, supposedly rational and historical interpretation of the First Amendment has all the appearances of a subordinate, constitutional myth tailored to fit the exigencies of the still dominant, chiefly operative, religio-political myth of the camel's nose.
Morrison is not known as an expert in American constitutional law, or in the history of American education, or in the broad juridical problem, historically highly complicated, of the relations of Church and State.
Morrison is a gifted journalist, who is devoting his declining years to a Great Cause—that of foiling, through the instrumentality of an aroused Protestantism, the plot of the Catholic hierarchy against American liberties.
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