Talk:John R. Rice (pastor)

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References[edit]

Not all the references are quoted in the text. Besides, the references section doubles as "Further Reading." But I'll work on cutting down the list of Rice books, advertising for which I suspect was the reason for creating the article in the first place.--John Foxe 11:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Rice books removed[edit]

I doubted that the partial list of Rice's books was worth keeping here, so instead of wikifying references, I took the easy way out and eliminated the list.--John Foxe 20:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's the wrong thing to do. A significant historical figure should be seen on her or his own terms and the terms with which the community AND 'time' consider them. MaynardClark (talk)

Will Rice and the KKK[edit]

The original John R. Rice booklet attacking lodge membership for Christians, Lodges examined by the Bible : is it sinful for a Christian to have membership in secret orders? (Findlay, Ohio : Fundamental Truth Publishers, 1943[?]), is fairly rare. Even LoC doesn't have a copy. The KKK gets barely a mention here, probably because the second Klan was moribund in the 1940s. The heavy artillery is directed at the Masons.--John Foxe 16:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rice preached 'separation' (which some termed 'separatism') and had "books" (booklets) on that topic.MaynardClark (talk)

Shameful Removal of Wikipedia Pages CITED by This Article[edit]

Core contributors to both liberal/modernist AND fundamentalist/Evangelical social history in America have been removed from Wikipedia recently.

Based on the knowledge of those who understand and appreciate the complexity of those social and historical dynamics, those social and intellectual contributions (and events) are worth recording. The current policy of finding excuses for removing whole articles (as NOT historically noteworthy) is, IMO, reducing Wikipedia's overall usefulness to some researchers (not all of who WRITE Wikipedia articles and hold to those presumed 'standards'). MaynardClark (talk)

Just curious as to why your posts don't have date stamps. Don't think I've seen that before.--John Foxe (talk) 22:11, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]