Bush 41, Meacham and the SBC wing of the Eagle Forum
T Perry Brannon was a Missionary denominationalist and tent revival preacher during the Depression through the early 50s of Chattanooga Tennessee. He was born in the Corinth community of Gaffney SC where my Dad was a Baptist preacher from 62-78.
His father, my Grandfather WD Shorty Fox had an 8th grade education and worked the third shift at Celanese in Rome Ga from 29 to 65. He could heard TPerry on the radio and was the height of his faith pilgrimage to be a prayer warrior for Brother Brannon when he came to Rome on more than one occasion for his sometime three week revivals.
Papa's first grandchild, my first cousin Harold Brannon Simmons did pretty well with Sears and Roebuck in corporate offices and Atlanta. His middle name was for the preacher.
So it is with some interest I finally have Chattanooga native and Harvard PHD Marie Griffith's new book Moral Combat about how the Eagle Forum and other women of the Birch Society tradition shaped the modern day Republican party and church rifts in the Southern Baptist Convention and elsewhere.
Andrew Jackson and Bush 41 biographer as another native of Chattanooga does her top back cover blurb. We know he was the Historian who said good things about Barbara Bush last Saturday at her funeral.
I liked Barr. She told a great joke to the Columbia SC Rotary club in circa 96 and her son W last commencement address was at my and Marshall Frady's alma mater, Furman University in Greenville SC.
Lee Atwater's daughter Salley is also a Furman grad and in a few weeks Clayte Hubbard, golfing son or recent Bama House Speaker Mike Hubbard will join our august ranks.
So far after waiting with a bad car belt I thought was the alternator; after waiting three months to get my hands on the book from some great librarians at a nearby juco, spot reading I'm all in.
I hope maybe Ms Griffith and I can do lunch later this summer, and would be a stoke for me and my blog if she can get Jon Meacham himself to read this.
From Criswell to Jesse Helms takeover of the SEBTS seminary in Wake Forest NC to Criswell's race baiting speech to joint session of the 1956 SC legislature--Stewart Newman, the man who followed him at the SBC pastors conference the day before said WA shouted out "Now you wouldn't call a chigger a chiggerow, now wudya"; To Bush 41 ethics nominee Paul Pressler now the subject of numerous allegations of sodomy with boys he's crossed paths over the years; to Bush 41 1966 confrontation with the Harris County Texas John Birch Society, to EJ Daniels presentation in Gaffney in fall of 1966 on masturbation in the boys session right before the sermon Stop Lights on the Road to Hell, a few months before I saw Billy Graham and the Baptist movie star who was on Rawhide with Clint Eastwood at the 67 SBC in Miami; well Ms Griffith and I got a lot to talk about. Come back to this soon. I'm just startin to roll.
Wuthnow and Lee Atwater's famous Nword memo; we got to talk to Meacham about that too!
His father, my Grandfather WD Shorty Fox had an 8th grade education and worked the third shift at Celanese in Rome Ga from 29 to 65. He could heard TPerry on the radio and was the height of his faith pilgrimage to be a prayer warrior for Brother Brannon when he came to Rome on more than one occasion for his sometime three week revivals.
Papa's first grandchild, my first cousin Harold Brannon Simmons did pretty well with Sears and Roebuck in corporate offices and Atlanta. His middle name was for the preacher.
So it is with some interest I finally have Chattanooga native and Harvard PHD Marie Griffith's new book Moral Combat about how the Eagle Forum and other women of the Birch Society tradition shaped the modern day Republican party and church rifts in the Southern Baptist Convention and elsewhere.
Andrew Jackson and Bush 41 biographer as another native of Chattanooga does her top back cover blurb. We know he was the Historian who said good things about Barbara Bush last Saturday at her funeral.
I liked Barr. She told a great joke to the Columbia SC Rotary club in circa 96 and her son W last commencement address was at my and Marshall Frady's alma mater, Furman University in Greenville SC.
Lee Atwater's daughter Salley is also a Furman grad and in a few weeks Clayte Hubbard, golfing son or recent Bama House Speaker Mike Hubbard will join our august ranks.
So far after waiting with a bad car belt I thought was the alternator; after waiting three months to get my hands on the book from some great librarians at a nearby juco, spot reading I'm all in.
I hope maybe Ms Griffith and I can do lunch later this summer, and would be a stoke for me and my blog if she can get Jon Meacham himself to read this.
From Criswell to Jesse Helms takeover of the SEBTS seminary in Wake Forest NC to Criswell's race baiting speech to joint session of the 1956 SC legislature--Stewart Newman, the man who followed him at the SBC pastors conference the day before said WA shouted out "Now you wouldn't call a chigger a chiggerow, now wudya"; To Bush 41 ethics nominee Paul Pressler now the subject of numerous allegations of sodomy with boys he's crossed paths over the years; to Bush 41 1966 confrontation with the Harris County Texas John Birch Society, to EJ Daniels presentation in Gaffney in fall of 1966 on masturbation in the boys session right before the sermon Stop Lights on the Road to Hell, a few months before I saw Billy Graham and the Baptist movie star who was on Rawhide with Clint Eastwood at the 67 SBC in Miami; well Ms Griffith and I got a lot to talk about. Come back to this soon. I'm just startin to roll.
Wuthnow and Lee Atwater's famous Nword memo; we got to talk to Meacham about that too!
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