They Chose to Live: The Racial Agony of an American Church, by J. Herbert Gilmore, Jr / Labor Problems in Christian Perspective, edited by John H. Redenkop

THEY CHOSE TO LIVE: The Racial Agony of an American Church, by J. Herbert Gilmore, Jr.; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1972; 206 pp., $2.95 (paper). [Reviewed by Prof. H Hanko] Perhaps our readers will recall that about two years ago the news media in this country gave extensive coverage to an event in the First Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama. At that time the church refused to receive two blacks -- a black woman and her daughter. This resulted in the resignation of the pastor and the...