Talk:W. A. Criswell

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"felt the divine call"?  You've got to be kidding me.  This is seriously in need of a re-write to make it factual rather than laudatory. 75.191.151.75 (talk) 05:50, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BetacommandBot (talk) 03:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It should be noted that someone repeatedly goes through this article and scrubs it both of well-documented information, including to references to the W.A. Criswell Sermon Library itself, AND of the statement that it has been censored. Edallan (talk) 07:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hostility towards desegregation[edit]

Reference to article by Curtis Freeman included in discussion of Criswell's theology to provide some balance to an article apparently written by Criswell disciples. Edallan (talk) 02:13, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

People often point out that Criswell made some remarks in defense of segregation to the South Carolina legislature in 1956. That's true enough as far as it goes, but it's not the whole story. Twelve years later, Criswell recanted his support for segregation. During his service as SBC president, he urged Southern Baptist churches to open their doors to people of all races.76.6.217.8 (talk) 21:04, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Politics[edit]

The section originally began with the sentence: "Criswell sometimes got involved in political campaigns." Left unadorned, with no mention of his significant hostility towards the involvement of American Catholics in the American political system, as documented in the article cited from Baptist History and Heritage, this statement is grossly misleading. Edallan (talk) 02:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC) Sermon linked from W.A. Criswell Sermon Library, http://www.wacriswell.org/Search/videotrans.cfm/sermon/2281.cfm Edallan (talk) 06:27, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Provided link to Kennedy Library records of Criswell's anti-Catholic sermon, which the Criswell Sermon Library has scrubbed from its records.

Edallan (talk) 07:14, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article classification[edit]

This article meets the requirements for Start class. Bruin2 (talk) 08:07, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]