Church Broadcasting in U.S.A.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 26, 10 January 1930, Page 11

Church Broadcasting in U.S.A.

Forty Million _ Listeners THE radio religious services in U.S.A. are broadcast through a network © of stations to a congregation estimated to number some forty million persons. Three services are-given each week. Dr. §.. Parkes Cadman, ‘who remains the most popular radio preacher in the United States, will conduct one’ series of services, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick another, and Mr. Daniel A, Poling, president of the General Synod of. the Reformed Church, is in charge of more informal services designed. specially to appeal to younger people. ° The aim. with all the services is fhat they shall interest particularly people _ who are-not confirmed church-goers, and shall ayoid anything. savouring of sectarianism. It is claimed by the organisers of these national religious services that by avoiding narrow doctrinal differences and concentrating’ upon the essentials of the Christian faith, they advance the: cause of-church unity and at the same time improve the standards: of local church’ services.