RADIO FREE AMERICA
View documents and written acounts of Dr. McIntire’s historic battle with the FCC over the first-ever use of the “Fairness Doctrine” against his radio broadcasts.
CHURCH INFORMATION
Explore documents and pictures from the formation and history of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Collingswood.
COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS
We have collected a number of items looking back at Dr. McIntire ́s ministry in pictures and words.
SERMON TRANSCRIPTS
Select from a large variety of Dr. Mcintire ́s transcribed sermons to read online (or download and print).
SPEECHES
Dr. McIntire was a prolific speaker who made his voice heard on a variety of issues pertinent to the Church in society. A selection of his speeches are included here in transcript form.
BOOKLETS & PAMPHLETS
Peruse the many booklets and pamphlets we have collected from the pen of Dr. McIntire.
- Introductory Page
- 20th Century Reformation
- 24 Elders Back Dr. McIntire in Bible Presbyterian Rift
- A Plea to Discipline Roman Catholic Liberals
- Antagonist Raps Pope
- Bible Believer March to Go On at Trenton
- ‘Bible Believers’ Plan July 30 March on Trenton
- Bible Church to Dedicate Sunday School
- Bible Presbyterian Church Splits, Rejects Dr. McIntire
- Bible Prophecy (Rev. Allan MacRae)
- Black Manifesto Challenged by Dr. McIntire in Abington
- Church Council Criticized by Exiled Clerics
- Controversial Pastor Dropped By Presbytery
- The Dead Sea Scrolls
- Group Seeks McIntire Ouster
- Dr. McIntire Pushes ‘Religious-Political Alliance’
- Dr. McIntire Reads ‘Christian Manifesto’ In Rain After Rebuff
- Dr. McIntire Stands in Rain to Answer ‘Manifesto’
- ICCC Petitions WCC to Remove Communist Agents from Membership
- ICCC President: Graham Makes Mockery of Freedom
- ICCC President: WCC Says Jesus is Not the Only Way to Heaven
- McIntire Broadcasts To Continue Pending Talks on Censorship
- McIntire For Prayer Bill
- McIntire Gets Belated Apology From Prominent New Evangelical
- McIntire Group Protests New ‘Social Creed’
- McIntire Hosts Battle for Shelton
- McIntire in Belfast Assails Catholics
- McIntire Plans Protest March
- McIntire Tags Bernadette A ‘Miniskirted Marxist’
- McIntire Rally Set to Protest WXUR Probe
- Rev. Carl McIntire: a Fundamental Approach to Fighting Satan
- Rev. McIntire Flays Visit of 8 Red Clerics at Big Protest Rally
- Militant Pastor Yields His Church
- N.J. Pastor Assails New Bible Version
- On the Hot Seat
- Princeton Theological Seminary Hosts a ‘Carl McIntire Day’
- Rev. McIntire is Dropped By N.J. Presbytery
- The Collingswood Tent, a Tent of Testimony, The Christian Beacon, March 24, 1988
- WCC Announces the Origin of the Earth in Australia Assembly
OBITUARIES
Read obituaries for Dr. McIntire and his wife Fairy.
OTHER ITEMS
Here is a collection of other pieces which did not fit in any of the other categories above.
MURDER OF ATHEIST O’HAIR
A collection of newspaper articles surrounding the disappearance, search and murder of Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
Bible Presbyterian Church Splits, Rejects Dr. McIntire
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin of April 16, 1956
The national assembly of the Bible Presbyterian Church has rejected the leadership of its principal founder, the Rev. Dr. Carl McIntire, of Collingswood, N. J., it was learned today.
The action was taken at the 19th General Synod meeting of the denomination in St. Louis last week.
The group, composed of some 8,800 members, also disassociated itself from the American Council of Christian Churches and the International Council of Christian Churches.
Two Charges
The synod charged “undemocratic leadership” of the two parent groups and “exaggeration” of membership statistics.
Dr, McIntire, pastor of the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, is the founder and a past president of the American Council and founder and president of the International Council.
He was not present at tile week-long meeting of the synod.
It also was reported that a number of faculty members of the Faith’ Theological Seminary, Elkins Park, and Shelton College, N. J., will resign at the end of the school year for similar reasons.
McIntire is founder of both schools.
‘Dissatisfaction’ Stressed
The Rev. Dr. R. Laird Harris, faculty member of the Faith Theological Seminary and moderator of the synod, emphasized that the break reflected no disagreement over church doctrine but a “dissatisfaction with certain administrative actions policies.”
The formal resolution, passed 76 to 16, stated:
“Reaffirming its position on the purity of the visible church and its position on separation from modernism and inclusivism, the 19th General Synod . . . finding sufficient cause for dissatisfaction in its representation by the American Council of Christian Churches hereby terminates the power of that agency to represent said denomination.” The schism was effective immediately.
Up to Individual Churches
Dr. Harris pointed out, however, that individual churches in the synod had the power to reaffiliate with both the national and international bodies.
It was learned that a new group, called Bible Presbyterian Association, will be organized by church leaders who want to reaffiliate. Dr. Harris said Dr. McIntire is not an officer of the American Council but is “its moving spirit” and is mainly responsible for its policies. The group will meet in Fort Worth, Tex, April 25.
Ousted in 1936
The Bible Presbyterian Church Synod, one of the 14 denominations affiliated with the American Council, will not be represented, Dr. Harris said.
Dr. McIntire, Oklahoma-born fundamentalist, was ousted as pastor of the Collingswood Presbyterian Church in June, 1936 by the General Assembly of ‘the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. A. for declining to resign from an independent group that challenged the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.
The ouster from the $250,000 church was backed by the New Jersey Courts and in March, 1938, Dr. McIntire with 1,200 members of the congregation marched out of the church and founded the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, Haddon Ave. and Cuthbert Blvd., Collingswood.
The church became the nucleus of the Bible Presbyterian Church Synod, which now has 88 affiliated churches. Dr. McIntire in 1941 founded the American Council of Christian Churches, which in organization parallels the National Council of Churches in Christ of the U.S.A.
It claims some 220,000 members.
The International Council of Christian Churches was organized by McIntire in Amsterdam in 1948. It boasts worldwide representation through 54 affiliated demoninations with a total membership of 1,100,000.