Surviving Fundamentalism
That flamboyant fundamentalist preacher J. Frank Norris shaped my early life.
Yes, I was born in 1950, and he died in 1952; but before that my dad, Tom Moody, graduated from Daviess County High School (in Kentucky) in 1940 and moved to Detroit for work. There he was drawn to the preaching of Rev. Norris at the Temple Baptist Church, one of two churches where Norris served as pastor. It may have been dad’s first exposure to this kind of religion, as he was only three years removed from his own baptism in the Green River.
After the War, Tom Moody went back to Detroit, reconnected with Rev. Norris, and turned down an offer from Norris to move to Ft. Worth to become a youth minister at …
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