Emphasis Preaching Journal

During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a college student grew deeply impressed with the courage of the pastor of his home church. The pastor spoke openly and often against restrictive housing codes in his suburban community. As a result, the man became the object of hate mail, threatening telephone calls, and a nearly successful effort to remove him from the pulpit. With determination, and apparently without rancor, the pastor held to his preaching.