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.
Controversial Pastor Dropped By Presbytery
From the Philadelphia Inquirer of May 14, 1957
The Rev. Dr. Carl McIntire, of Collingswood, long a controversial figure in Protestant Church circles, has been dropped as a member of the New Jersey Presbytery of the Bible Presbyterian Church.
Dr. McIntire and several other clergymen and elders were dropped as members and delegates at a meeting of the Presbytery at Star Cross Bible Presbyterian Church, near Cross Keys, on Saturday.
REPUDIATED IN ’55
Dr. McIntire was instrumental in founding the Bible Presbyterian Church, whose national synod repudiated his leadership at a meeting in St. Louis, Mo., in April, 1955, by withdrawing from the American Council of Christian Churches and the International Council of Christian ,Churches, of which Dr. McIntire is president.
In a widely publicized trial in 1935, Dr. McIntire was convicted of disobedience to the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. and was ordered suspended both from the ministry and the church.
RAPPED MODERNISTS
As a fundamentalist leader, he charged modernists ran the Foreign Missions Board of the church.
Later he was ordered to quit ,the pulpit and church property of Collingswood Presbyterian Church. On March 27, 1938, Dr McIntire led 1200 followers from the church “never to return.”
For the next eight weeks, he” conducted services in a huge tent at Haddon ave. and Cuthbert Collingswood, where his Bible Presbyterian Church now stands.
He was the first president of the American Council of Christian Churches and the first and only president of the International Council of Christian Churches, founded in 1948 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
IN OPPOSITION
These organizations have continually opposed the larger and much more recognized National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.
In fact, on several occasions, the International Council of Christian Churches set up meeting several weeks prior to a scheduled meeting of the World Council of Churches in various parts of the world in an apparent effort to gain recognition.
During his 25 years in the ministry Dr, McIntire has been outspoken on local, State, national, a and international issues. He! vehemently protested against the visit of eight Russian and I Country churchmen, sponsored !by the National Council of’ Churches last summer.
SPONSOR 6 PASTORS
At the present time the American Council of Christian Churches is sponsoring six refugee clergymen from Iron Curtain countries who are scheduled to present “the true picture” of what Communism has done to religion.
He has opposed the new Standard Revised Version of the Bible, a book of plays used by Collingswood High School, the Collingswood Youth Center “as a place of public petting, necking, dancing and smoking,” bingo in New Jersey, the Garden State Race Track and numerous political candidates.
During his controversy with the synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church, he formed a Bible Presbyterian Association in opposition to the New Jersey Presbytery.