History of Great Speakers At Fountain Street Church

Susan B. Anthony
Winston Churchill
William Jennings Bryan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Clarence Darrow
Helen Keller
Arthur Vandenberg
Linus Pauling
Walter Rauschenbusch
Helen Thomas
Arnold Toynbee
Ralph Bunche
Henry Nelson Wieman
Paul Tillich
Margaret Sanger
Malcom X
Prince William of Sweden
Francis Townsend
Grand Duke Alexander of Russia
Lyman Abbott
Robert M. LaFollette
David Starr Jordan
Senator Carl Levin
Harry Golden
Rev. Sloan Coffin
Bishop James Pike
Rabbi Sherwin Wine
Sidney J. Harris
Grand Duchess Maria of Russia
Robert Bly
Robert Frost
Stokley Carmichael
Paul Erlich
Dale Carnegie
Joseph Campbell
Bayard Ruskin
Gloria Steinem
Ameila Earhart
Norman Vincent Peale
Harry Golden
Gerald R. Ford
Ashley Montagu
J. Herman Randall Sr.
Thomas Moore
Julian Bond
Dick Gregory
Margaret Mead
Lowell Thomas
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Forrest Church
Norman Thomas
Mel Trotter
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Michael Moore
Alan Watts
Molly Ivins
Richard Leakey
Amy Goodman
UN Ambassador George McGovern
Alden Dow
Harlow Shapley
Jim Hightower
Louis Leakey
Kreskin
Wendell Berry
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Eugene O’Neill
Irshad Manji
Kweisi Mfume

NEXT EVENT:To Be Announced

The mission of the Great Speakers Committee is to invite provocative speakers to our sanctuary that will enrich the whole community and encourage the flow of ideas that is the spirit of Fountain Street Church's free pulpit.

Goals:

  • To seek wide range of speakers and topics on new and divergent ideas and thoughts.
  • To broaden subject areas to attract expanded, diverse community audience
  • To expand community, institutional and area leader networking and collaboration, to establish long-term positive change.

Previous Speaker: Education Reformer and Parenting Expert, Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn Discussion Board