OH 1670 | Oral History

OH 1670

Dallas clergyman and social activist. Childhood and education in Dallas; membership in Methodist Church; pursuit of undergraduate and MBA degrees from Southern Methodist University; career in banking and oil businesses; decision to enter Perkins School of Theology at SMU and Union Theology Seminary in New York; influence of Reinhold Niebuhr; family life; pastorship of Methodist church in Justin, Tex., St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church of Mesquite, Tex., and Northaven United Methodist Church of Dallas; involvement in Dallas civil rights movement, particularly around issue of fair housing, and efforts to integrate Mesquite schools; involvement in antiwar movement; influence of liberation theology on own thinking and preaching; involvement in gay rights movement; career as teacher and administrator at Saint Paul School of Theology of Kansas City and Perkins School of Theology; efforts to make Northaven a “reconciling congregation”; opinions on “Religious Right” and its role in American politics.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 55 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Michael Mims
Date of Interview August 20, 2008

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