Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood
in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years
in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's
in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918)
in which he
encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the
teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation
in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group
in the State Department; the first stroke
in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union
in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death
in Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
in 1971.
There is an old adage that many
in education have undoubtedly (and unfortunately)
encountered at some point
in their education
careers: that «those who can, do — those who can't,
teach.»
I have had a
career of
teaching, training, and providing mental health services and psychological assessment at the University of North Texas, which has also provided the opportunity to keep current with the latest research on proven techniques to assess and treat problems that people
encounter in their lives.»