Frank Norris, the “Violent Fundamentalist”
Dr. Watt, my adviser at Temple, had me start with C. Allyn Russell’s Voices of American Fundamentalism, which gives seven biographies of first generation fundamentalist leaders. Russell starts the series with a look at the life and ministry of J Frank Norris, the Texas Southern Baptist minister best known for shooting an unarmed man in his study while preparing a sermon one Saturday afternoon. (more…)