“Life-Affirming Religion”

Abstract

Despite doubts about a career in the ministry, May accepts an appointment to be pastor of a Congregational church in Verona, New Jersey. There he preached well but controversially, giving anti-fascist sermons about the civil war in Spain, decrying anti-Semitism in America as well as Germany, and publishing his first book, The Art of Counseling. In personal life, he and Florence had their first child, a son Robert.