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Gardner Calvin Taylor (June 18, 1918 – April 5, 2015) was an American Baptist preacher. He became known as "the dean of American preaching". [1] [2] Biography. Taylor, who was of African American heritage, was born in 1918 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Rev. Washington M. and Selina Taylor, and was the grandson of emancipated slaves.
Apr 7, 2015 · The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, a grandson of slaves who took over a Baptist pulpit in Brooklyn in 1948, when overt racism defined much of American life, and became an influential voice for civil...
Mar 5, 2002 · Born on June 18, 1918, as the only child of an educated mother and a Baptist preacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Gardner Calvin Taylor began on the path that would eventually lead to becoming the influential senior pastor of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York.
Feb 23, 2009 · The view from the Rev. Gardner C. Taylor’s study is breathtaking. Not the scene outside the window -- a suburban landscape of homes much like his own -- but the one you get if you’re lucky enough to sit with him, the vicarious glimpse of what Taylor sees, looking back across his life and out at the world today.
Apr 5, 2015 · Gardner Taylor was a close friend and political ally of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a prominent leader of the African American Baptist church. He founded the Progressive National Baptist Convention, served on the New York City Council of Churches, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He is the last pulpit prince. At 96 years old, Gardner C. Taylor has outlived almost all his contemporaries. The closest equivalent is Billy Graham, who (though better known than Taylor) self-identified as an itinerant evangelist.
Apr 14, 2015 · Numerous obituaries for the Reverend Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, who died on Easter Sunday at the age of ninety-six, have obliged the historical and journalistic requirements to compile his...
