24 Facts About Carl McIntire

Carl McIntire completed high school in Durant and attended Southeastern State, where he became an award-winning intercollegiate debater and president of the student body during his final year.

Carl McIntire followed his mentor and three other professors from Princeton to the newly founded Westminster Theological Seminary, where he completed his Th.

In 1931, Carl McIntire was ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church USA, serving for two years at Chelsea Presbyterian Church, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Carl McIntire remained a resident of Collingswood for the rest of his life.

Carl McIntire joined the conservative side in the ongoing Fundamentalist-Modernist debate, and in 1934, at Machen's invitation, he became a founding member of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, an agency organized as an alternative to the denominational mission board that supported theologically liberal missionaries.

In 1936 Carl McIntire joined Machen and others to found the Presbyterian Church of America, later renamed the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

In February 1936, during the series of ecclesiastical trials, Carl McIntire launched a weekly newspaper, The Christian Beacon to give greater voice to his message.

In March 1955, Carl McIntire initiated a daily thirty-minute radio program, The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour, which featured Carl McIntire's commentary on religious and political affairs.

In 1965, Carl McIntire effectively purchased radio station, WXUR, Media, Pennsylvania, although it was formally owned by Faith Theological Seminary.

Carl McIntire's outreach included an interest in promoting summer Bible conferences, a common method of evangelization and Bible teaching among American Protestants during the early twentieth century.

In 1941, Carl McIntire took a leading role in acquiring and operating Harvey Cedars Bible Conference on the Jersey shore at Harvey Cedars, New Jersey.

In 1971, Carl McIntire developed a Bible conference in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Carl McIntire considered himself to be first of all a pastor and preacher.

Carl McIntire's sermons were frequently exegetical, and he often proceeded systematically through particular books of the Bible.

Carl McIntire urged his congregation to read the Bible through every year.

Carl McIntire was a Calvinist who believed that John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, the Westminster Confession, and the Shorter and Larger Westminster catechisms were the finest articulations of the Christian faith.

Carl McIntire early rejected the Neo-evangelicalism of Billy Graham even before Graham's New York City Evangelistic Crusade of 1957, because Graham's organization had accepted the support of those McIntire regarded as liberals.

Carl McIntire argued that although America had once honored God and freedom, it was in danger of losing its heritage.

Carl McIntire attracted considerable public attention through his public demonstrations, early gaining a feel for gestures that attracted popular notice.

Carl McIntire attended virtually every important meeting of the World Council of Churches wherever its meetings were held and usually mounted demonstrations with placards outside the meeting hall, calling attention to what he regarded as the WCC's religious apostasy or its collaboration with Russian clergy who he believed were KGB operatives.

Carl McIntire gained the public eye in the early 1970s when he organized a half dozen pro-Vietnam War "Victory Marches" in Washington, DC The march of October 3,1970 was supposed to have featured South Vietnamese vice-president Nguyen Cao Ky, but the Nixon administration ensured that Ky would not be present.

In 1970, when gay activists proposed "Stonewall Nation", the takeover of sparsely populated Alpine County, California, Carl McIntire announced that he would counteract the plan by having his followers move to the area in trailers.

Nevertheless, Carl McIntire often inspired good-natured respect from some of the religious liberals whom he regularly picketed through the years; and his rhetoric, although sometimes bombastic, was rarely personal.

Yet when Princeton honored him almost affectionately as a distinguished alumnus, Carl McIntire responded to its overtures and donated his papers to the Seminary.