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83-966: Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan , Carl McIntire was the oldest of four children born to Charles Curtis McIntire, a Presbyterian minister and M.A. graduate of Princeton University , and Hettie Hotchkin McIntire. McIntire's father pastored in Salt Lake City, but by 1912 he had suffered a mental breakdown and was hospitalized. He and his wife were divorced, and she raised the children alone in Durant, Oklahoma , where she served as Dean of Women at Southeastern State Teachers College (now Southeastern Oklahoma State University ). Carl McIntire completed high school in Durant and attended Southeastern State, where he became an award-winning intercollegiate debater and president of

166-586: A commentary on the biblical text alongside the Bible instead of in a separate volume, the first to do so in English since the Geneva Bible (1560). It also contained a cross-referencing system that tied together related verses of Scripture and allowed a reader to follow biblical themes from one chapter and book to another (so called "chain references"). Finally, the 1917 edition also attempted to date events of

249-467: A Greek and a US flag at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water Tower . Ypsilanti has played an important role in the automobile industry. From 1920 to 1922, Apex Motors produced the "ACE" car. The quarter mile stretch of land along Michigan Avenue became a hub for car dealerships starting in 1912 when the first car dealership opened, and ending in the 1990s when the last dealership closed. This area has been referred to as "The Amazing Quarter Mile" and

332-464: A conservative Republican. Before and during World War II, McIntire opposed Nazism and anti-Semitism . After the war, he became a champion of anti-Communism and especially one who attacked Communist control of religion in the Soviet Union. McIntire argued that although America had once honored God and freedom, it was in danger of losing its heritage. On his radio program, McIntire often repeated

415-683: A conservative alternative to the liberal Federal (later, National) Council of Churches (NCC). In 1948, he likewise helped to found the International Council of Christian Churches (ICCC) to challenge the World Council of Churches (WCC). McIntire was elected first President of the ICCC and was reelected at each World Congress until he died. He and his wife, Fairy, traveled around the world scores of times both to encourage evangelical Christians abroad and to demonstrate his opposition to

498-412: A daily thirty-minute radio program, The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour , which featured McIntire's commentary on religious and political affairs. The radio program generally began with a homily from the Bible, followed by a monologue by McIntire on a wide range of subjects, including apostasy in mainline churches, liberalism in government, opposition to coexistence with communism, and cultural issues of

581-612: A founding member of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions , an agency organized as an alternative to the denominational mission board that supported theologically liberal missionaries. Deeming the new board a challenge to its authority, the General Assembly demanded that the clergymen resign. After they refused, Machen, McIntire, and seven other clergymen were tried by an ecclesiastical court in 1935–36. The board members lost, and they renounced

664-622: A full-scale version of the Temple of Jerusalem be constructed in Florida or two decades later when he suggested that Noah's ark be rebuilt and perhaps refloated off his conference center in Cape May. "It would be a tourist attraction," said McIntire of the latter, "and it would forever down these liberals." In 1975 he proposed the building of a Vietnam War amusement park called New Vietnam . In 1970, when gay activists proposed " Stonewall Nation ",

747-404: A household in the city was $ 28,610, and the median income for a family was $ 40,793. Males had a median income of $ 30,328 versus $ 26,745 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,692. About 16.9% of families and 25.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 30.1% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. The Martha Washington Theatre opened in 1915. It

830-498: A neo-colonial church building with a tall, Wren steeple. The church seated more than a thousand. A Sunday School was constructed on the location of the previous tent, and the revamped Tabernacle became an activity center. In February 1936, during the series of ecclesiastical trials, McIntire launched a weekly newspaper, The Christian Beacon to give greater voice to his message. The Collingswood church had already printed many of his sermons, and its church services had been broadcast over

913-543: A new Internet-based news operation, AnnArbor.com , which also produces print editions on Thursdays and Sundays. A weekly newspaper, the Ypsilanti Courier , is published every Thursday by Heritage Media from their Saline, Michigan offices. The only newspaper currently operating in Ypsilanti is Eastern Michigan University 's independent newspaper The Eastern Echo . Local radio stations include: Ypsilanti

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996-415: A new, united district on July 1, 2013. Charter schools in the city include Arbor Preparatory High School . It also was the setting of a well known and long running High/Scope Perry Preschool Study regarding the effects of early childhood education in children. The study researched the effects of preschool on the later lives of low income children from the area. Global Educational Excellence operates

1079-553: A radio address entitled, "The Governor's Kittens," while he (more-or-less) held a cat and kittens before the microphone. McIntire attended virtually every important meeting of the World Council of Churches wherever its meetings were held and usually mounted demonstrations with placards outside the meeting hall, calling attention to what he regarded as the WCC's religious apostasy or its collaboration with Russian clergy who he believed were KGB operatives. Beginning in 1967, McIntire engaged in

1162-561: A running battle with the Federal Communications Commission over the then-applicable " Fairness Doctrine ," by which radio stations had to provide varied political views to retain their licenses. WXUR was "incompetently run and flagrantly disrespectful of FCC requirements," but there was also "no doubt that the station was targeted because many members of the local Philadelphia community found speech expressed on WXUR offensive and therefore wanted it censored." When

1245-565: A short distance away on the west side of the river was established in 1825 under the name "Ypsilanti", after Demetrios Ypsilantis , a hero in the Greek War of Independence . Woodruff's Grove changed its name to Ypsilanti in 1829, the year its namesake effectively won the war for Greek Independence at the Battle of Petra , with the two communities eventually merging. A bust of Demetrios Ypsilantis by Greek sculptor Christopher Nastos stands between

1328-505: A successor, virtually everything was gone. Even the shadow that remained of the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood finally forced his resignation in 1999, after he had served the congregation for sixty years. In the words of Joel Belz , McIntire was "a classic example of a brilliant and winsome man who chose his battles badly. Unyielding on petty issues, he divided where division was both unnecessary and costly to

1411-535: Is a widely circulated study Bible . Edited and annotated by the American Bible student Cyrus I. Scofield , it popularized dispensationalism at the beginning of the 20th century. Published by Oxford University Press and containing the entire text of the traditional, Protestant King James Version , it first appeared in 1909 and was revised by the author in 1917. The Scofield Bible had several innovative features. Most important, it printed what amounted to

1494-607: Is also home to the first Domino's Pizza location, located near EMU's McKenny Student Union in South Campus. Originally a trading post established in 1809 by a French-Canadian fur trader from Montreal , a permanent settlement was established on the east side of the Huron River in 1823 by Major Thomas Woodruff. It was incorporated into the Territory of Michigan as the village Woodruff's Grove . A separate community

1577-476: Is also known for damming the Huron River to generate hydroelectric power which created Ypsilanti's Ford Lake . Ypsilanti is conveniently located on the intersection of US Highway 23 (North-South) and Interstate 94 (East-West), and is a short 15 to 20 minute drive to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW). The city is located 8 miles east of Ann Arbor and is 35 miles west of Downtown Detroit . It

1660-639: Is also the location of the last Hudson automobile dealership. Today, the former dealership is the site of the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection . The museum is the home to an original Fabulous Hudson Hornet race car, which inspired the character Doc Hudson in the 2006 Pixar animated film Cars . In the early 1970s, the citizens reduced the penalty for the use and sale of marijuana to $ 5 (the Ypsilanti Marijuana Initiative; see also

1743-518: Is served by daily newspapers from Detroit. Ypsilanti once had its own daily newspaper, the Ypsilanti Press , but that paper closed June 28, 1994, after 90 years in business. Upon closing, the Press sold its masthead, archives and subscriber list to The Ann Arbor News , which then began publishing an Ypsilanti edition. The Ann Arbor News ceased publication on July 23, 2009; it was replaced by

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1826-760: The Christian Beacon , claiming that there was a "Baptist plot against him." After being outmaneuvered, McIntire attempted a parliamentary takeover in October 1970, which eventually led to a court order against him in 1971, and a final severing of his relationship with the ACCC. McIntire promoted several educational ministries. The Sunday School and the Summer Bible School of the Collingswood church were large and active. (The Summer Bible School of

1909-530: The Human Rights Party ). In 1979, Faz Husain was elected to the Ypsilanti city council, the first Muslim and the first native of India to win elected office in Michigan. In the 1990s Ypsilanti became the first city in Michigan to pass a living wage ordinance. On July 23, 2007, Governor Jennifer Granholm announced that Ypsilanti, along with the cities of Caro and Clio , was chosen by

1992-399: The U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.47 square miles (11.58 km ), of which 4.29 square miles (11.11 km ) is land and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km ) (4.02%) is water. The Huron River flows through Ypsilanti with Ford Lake on the southern edge of the city. Paint Creek also runs through the city. The Border-to-Border Trail runs through the city. As of

2075-615: The public domain , and the 1917 edition is "consistently the best selling edition of the Scofield Bible" in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 1967, Oxford University Press published a revision of the Scofield Bible with a slightly modernized KJV text, and a muting of some of the tenets of Scofield's theology. Recent editions of the KJV Scofield Study Bible have moved the textual changes made in 1967 to

2158-487: The three-mile limit near Cape May , calling the floating station "Radio Free America." The station began broadcasting at 12:22 PM Eastern Time on September 19, 1973, but was only on the air for ten hours—the ship began to smoke from the heat of the antenna feeder line, and the signal interfered with that of radio station WHLW in Lakewood, New Jersey which broadcast on a neighboring frequency of 1170 kHz. Nevertheless,

2241-780: The 1980s after the New Jersey Supreme Court in New Jersey Board of Higher Education v. Shelton College prohibited Shelton from granting academic degrees without a state license. Faith Theological Seminary , organized in 1937 as an independent school associated with the Bible Presbyterian denomination, later occupied Lynnewood Hall , the Gilded Age estate of P.A.B. Widener in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania . McIntire and west coast supporters of

2324-496: The Bible Presbyterian Church founded Highland College in Pasadena, California, a small Christian liberal arts college, and remained associated with the college until 1956. McIntire considered himself to be first of all a pastor and preacher. His sermons were frequently exegetical, and he often proceeded systematically through particular books of the Bible. He urged his congregation to read the Bible through every year. For McIntire

2407-559: The Bible Presbyterian denomination underwent its first split in the latter year, McIntire's organization purchased the historic Admiral Hotel in Cape May, New Jersey in 1962, and founded the Christian Admiral Bible Conference and Freedom Center. McIntire added a number of distressed properties to his holdings, becoming an unwitting preservationist as he prevented outmoded structures—the most notable being

2490-483: The Bible. It was in the pages of the Scofield Reference Bible that many Christians first encountered Archbishop James Ussher 's calculation of the date of Creation as 4004 BC; and through discussion of Scofield's notes, which advocated the " gap theory ," fundamentalists began a serious internal debate about the nature and chronology of creation . The first edition of the Scofield Bible (1909)

2573-702: The Collingswood church—McIntire disliked the term "Vacation Bible School"—ran for four weeks rather than the typical one week of most churches during the period.) McIntire also gained control of the National Bible Institute in New York City and transformed the school into a liberal arts college, Shelton College , which moved to the "Skylands" estate in Ringwood, New Jersey , in 1953. In 1964, the college moved to Cape May, later to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and then back to Cape May before closing in

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2656-601: The Depot Town area adjacent to Frog Island Park and Riverside Park, which features many specialty shops, bars and grills, and a farmers' market . The Tridge is a three-way wooden footbridge under the Cross Street bridge over the Huron River at 42°14′44″N 83°36′42″W  /  42.24561°N 83.61160°W  / 42.24561; -83.61160 . The Tridge connects Riverside Park, Frog Island Park, and Depot Town . The Ypsilanti Water Tower, adjacent to

2739-693: The FCC refused to renew the WXUR license (rejecting the recommendation of its own examiner) and the station was forced off the air in 1973, McIntire demonstrated his theatrical flair by holding a "funeral" for the station (complete with coffin) while dressed as John Witherspoon , a Presbyterian pastor and signer of the Declaration of Independence. After a supporter purchased for McIntire a World War II vintage wooden-hulled Navy minesweeper named Oceanic (which McIntire renamed Columbus ), he tried to broadcast outside

2822-636: The Festival of the Honey Bee. Ypsi Pride takes place on the first Friday in June and seeks to celebrate LGBTQ+ culture across the community by hosting a variety of family friendly programming, entertainment, and educational content. Ypsilanti has the second largest contiguous historic district in the state of Michigan, behind only the much larger city of Grand Rapids . The Ypsilanti Historic District includes both downtown Ypsilanti, along Michigan Avenue, and

2905-470: The Global Tech Academy (PreK-5) in nearby Ypsilanti Township. A college town, Ypsilanti is home to Eastern Michigan University , founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Today, Eastern Michigan University has 17,500+ undergraduate and more than 4,800 graduate students. As well, Ypsilanti is home to Washtenaw Community College (WCC) sponsored off-site extension center. Ypsilanti

2988-575: The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) to take part in the Blueprints for Michigan's Downtowns program. The award provides for an economic development consultant to assist Ypsilanti in developing a growth and job creation strategy for the downtown area. On June 23, 2020, Mayor Beth Bashert resigned after a controversial comment she made about race during a Zoom meeting. According to

3071-605: The Michigan State Normal College) since the university's founding as Michigan's first normal school (teachers' college) in 1849, its location on the historic Detroit-Chicago Road (now US Highway 12 ), its historic Depot Town commercial district, and for its distinctive Ypsilanti Water Tower constructed in 1890. The city is closely associated with Ford Motor Company's Willow Run Bomber Plant which manufactured over 8,000 Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers during World War II . Ford Motor Company

3154-488: The Reference Bible exceeded two million copies by the end of World War II. The Scofield Reference Bible promoted dispensationalism , the belief that between creation and the final judgment there would be seven distinct eras of God's dealing with man and that these eras are a framework for synthesizing the message of the Bible. Largely through the influence of Scofield's notes, many fundamentalist Christians in

3237-524: The Seminary. Ypsilanti, Michigan Ypsilanti ( / ˌ ɪ p s ə ˈ l æ n t i / IP -sə- LAN -tee ), commonly shortened to Ypsi ( / ˈ ɪ p s iː / IP -see ), is a college town and city located on the Huron River in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan . As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 20,648. The city is bounded to

3320-607: The United States adopted a dispensational theology. Scofield's notes on the Book of Revelation are a major source for the various timetables, judgments, and plagues elaborated on by popular religious writers such as Hal Lindsey , Edgar C. Whisenant , and Tim LaHaye ; and in part because of the success of the Scofield Reference Bible, twentieth-century American fundamentalists placed greater stress on eschatological speculation. The 1917 Scofield Reference Bible notes are now in

3403-706: The World Council of Churches. (During McIntire's long presidency, the headquarters of the ICCC were located in Amsterdam, and J. C. Maris served as General Secretary.) During the late 1960s, McIntire's relationship with the ACCC leadership became strained, and he secretly transferred an ACCC relief agency (along with $ 62,000) to the ICCC, which remained firmly under his control. McIntire "was perennially late to ACCC meetings, and then he would demand that any decisions made in advance of his arrival be undone." When ACCC leaders refused to accommodate him, he attacked them in

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3486-516: The campus of Eastern Michigan University, holds the unique distinction of being the winner of the Most Phallic Building contest . Other sites of interest include: There are many parks within the city limits of Ypsilanti, including: Ypsilanti Community Schools serve residents of the city, as well as parts of Ypsilanti Township and Superior Township . Ypsilanti Public Schools and Willow Run Community Schools merged to form

3569-574: The campus of Eastern Michigan University. By 1963, Clara Owens established the Ypsilanti Greek Theater in Ypsilanti, Michigan for the performance of Greek theater productions. In 1966 the Ypsilanti Greek Theater opened at the EMU Baseball field. Bert Lahr and Dame Judith Anderson starred in two productions, The Oresteia , a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus and The Birds by playwright Aristophanes. Since 1979,

3652-505: The census of 2010, there were 19,435 people, 8,026 households, and 2,880 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,488.5 inhabitants per square mile (1,733.0/km ). There were 9,271 housing units at an average density of 2,141.1 per square mile (826.7/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 61.5% White , 29.2% African American , 0.6% Native American , 3.4% Asian , 1.1% from other races , and 4.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 3.9% of

3735-409: The church. He followed his mentor and three other professors from Princeton to the newly founded Westminster Theological Seminary , where he completed his Th.B. degree in 1931. In May 1931, he married Fairy Eunice Davis of Paris, Texas , whom he had met when they were both students at Southeastern, and who became a high school English teacher while he completed seminary. They had three children. After

3818-621: The city has become known for summer festivals in the part of the city called " Depot Town ", which is adjacent to both Riverside and Frog Island Parks along the banks of the Huron River. Festivals include the annual Ypsilanti Heritage Festival , Michigan ElvisFest , the Orphan Car Festival, the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival, the former Frog Island Festival, and a Latino festival. Painter Fay Kleinman moved to Ypsilanti in

3901-442: The city. The population density was 5,081.5 inhabitants per square mile (1,962.0/km ). There were 9,215 housing units at an average density of 2,094.0 per square mile (808.5/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 61.40% White , 30.58% African American , 0.44% Native American , 3.18% Asian , 0.07% Pacific Islander , 1.32% from other races , and 3.01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 2.47% of

3984-512: The day-to-day activities of his ramshackle empire. Nor could he brook sharing power. In the 1960s his long-time friend and fellow fundamentalist, Robert T. Ketcham , pleaded with McIntire to "be more gracious in his dealings with other Christians," but McIntire instead used the Christian Beacon to attack members of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches of which Ketcham was an influential leader. In 1971, all but two of

4067-554: The death of Fairy Davis McIntire in 1992, McIntire married Alice Goff, a church office administrator with whom he had worked for many years. In 1931, McIntire was ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church USA, serving for two years at Chelsea Presbyterian Church, Atlantic City, New Jersey . In 1933, he was called to the Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, New Jersey , near Philadelphia,

4150-511: The far east side of the city and into Ypsilanti Township) are sometimes called "Ypsitucky". Harriette Arnow 's book The Dollmaker , which was made into a film starring Jane Fonda , focused on the lives of these "Ypsituckians". Recently, the use of the term "Ypsitucky" has come under increased scrutiny due to its historically derogatory connotation. In 2008, the issue was raised after a dinner being held in Ann Arbor to honor Harriette Arnow

4233-606: The finest articulations of the Christian faith. McIntire emphasized the doctrine of separation , which he based on 2 Corinthians 6:17: "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." To McIntire, separation emphasized the purity of the church in opposition to apostasy, the falling away from the historic Christian faith in which he believed theological liberals to be engaged. Like other fundamentalists of

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4316-621: The jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church, as did the Collingswood Presbyterian Church, only a tiny minority of whose members refused to support their young pastor. In 1936 McIntire joined Machen and others to found the Presbyterian Church of America, later renamed the Orthodox Presbyterian Church . The new church attracted supporters from other Reformed traditions, complicating the church's effort to define itself. A debate soon emerged in

4399-560: The largest church in the West Jersey Presbytery. McIntire remained a resident of Collingswood for the rest of his life. The Women's Missionary Society of the Collingswood church called his attention to what they perceived as a modernist perspective in the missions study book, which had been promoted by the denomination's Board of Foreign Missions. McIntire joined the conservative side in the ongoing Fundamentalist-Modernist debate, and in 1934, at Machen's invitation, he became

4482-557: The late 1980s with her husband, pianist Emanuel Levenson . Overlooking Riverside Park is the non-profit Riverside Arts Center. Established in 1994 through the efforts of the Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority and several public spirited citizens, the Riverside boasts a 115-seat black box theater , a sizable art gallery and some meeting rooms and offices. In 2006 the adjacent DTE building

4565-510: The moment, including gambling, sex education, socialized medicine , and fluoridation of drinking water . An associate pastor of the Collingswood church, Charles Richter, known to listeners as "Amen Charlie," regularly "amened" his support of McIntire's statements. During the 1960s, the program may have been heard on as many as 600 radio stations—although McIntire's inaccuracy with numbers became legendary. In 1965, McIntire effectively purchased radio station, WXUR , Media, Pennsylvania , although it

4648-740: The nearby Willow Run B-24 Liberator bomber plant from Ford Motor Company , and started to make Kaiser and Frazer model cars in 1947. The last Kaiser car made in Ypsilanti rolled off the assembly line in 1953, when the company merged with Willys–Overland and moved production to Toledo, Ohio . General Motors purchased the Kaiser Frazer plant, and converted it into its Hydramatic Division (now called its Powertrain division), beginning production in November 1953. The GM Powertrain Division ceased production at this facility in 2010. Ypsilanti

4731-569: The nineteenth-century Windsor and Congress Hall hotels—from being destroyed to make room for motels. The conference itself contributed to the revival of Cape May as a summer resort. In 1971, McIntire also developed a Bible conference in Cape Canaveral, Florida . During the 1940s, McIntire's influence expanded throughout the United States and overseas. In 1941, he helped create the American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC) as

4814-682: The north by Superior Township and on the west, south, and east by Ypsilanti Township . Ypsilanti is a part of the Ann Arbor metropolitan area , the Huron River Valley , the Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor combined statistical area , and the Great Lakes megalopolis . The city is also the home of Eastern Michigan University (EMU). Ypsilanti is known mostly for being the home of Eastern Michigan University (formerly

4897-434: The notion of a Christian pirate radio station off the United States caught the attention of the media. "I became a very famous man out of that," McIntire later recalled, "People stood along the coast to see me. It was a crazy thing to do, but it was dramatic." McIntire also gained the public eye in the early 1970s when he organized a half dozen pro-Vietnam War "Victory Marches" in Washington, D.C. The march of October 3, 1970

4980-510: The period, McIntire also separated from evangelical groups, such as the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which he believed had compromised with the liberalism of the National Council of Churches. He early rejected the Neo-evangelicalism of Billy Graham even before Graham's New York City Evangelistic Crusade of 1957, because Graham's organization had accepted the support of those McIntire regarded as liberals. Although his Oklahoma family had voted Democratic, McIntire eventually became

5063-439: The population. There were 8,026 households, of which 18.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 19.7% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 64.1% were non-families. 42.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

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5146-447: The population. 13.6% were of German ancestry, 6.8% Irish, 6.4% English and 5.5% Polish heritage according to Census 2000 . There were 8,551 households, out of which 19.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 23.0% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 60.5% were non-families. 40.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.2% had someone living alone who

5229-444: The professors of Faith Seminary , including President Allan A. MacRae , left over McIntire's alleged suppression of academic freedom and "oppressive leadership style." McIntire refused to participate in fundamentalist organizations which he could not dominate, even those led by other separatist fundamentalists of the period such as Bob Jones Jr. , and Ian Paisley . Nevertheless, McIntire often inspired good-natured respect from some of

5312-451: The radio in the Philadelphia region. Over the next four decades, McIntire published twelve books, and hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, sermons, speeches, and documentary portfolios. As Joel Carpenter has written, McIntire was "a gifted publicist," and his Christian Beacon was a "widely read organ of separatist opinion in which McIntire practiced his talent for sensational and aggressive religious journalism." In March 1955, McIntire initiated

5395-415: The religious liberals whom he regularly picketed through the years; and his rhetoric, although sometimes bombastic, was rarely personal. By the early 1970s, McIntire's ministries were debt-ridden and began to collapse one by one. In 1970, he owed the town of Cape May more than a half million dollars in back taxes. The buildings he had accumulated were sold or destroyed. By the time he died, at age 95, without

5478-432: The slogan, "Freedom is everybody's business, your business, my business, the church's business, and a man who will not use his freedom to defend his freedom, does not deserve his freedom." McIntire attracted considerable public attention through his public demonstrations, early gaining a feel for gestures that attracted popular notice. For instance, in 1947, he unsuccessfully opposed a revised New Jersey state constitution in

5561-408: The student body during his final year. For his senior year, he transferred to Park College , Parkville, Missouri , where he received his B.A. degree before entering Princeton Theological Seminary , New Jersey, in 1928 to prepare for the Presbyterian ministry. Meanwhile, he worked as a janitor and sold maps to farmers door-to-door in Caddo County, Oklahoma . During the late 1920s, Princeton Seminary

5644-559: The takeover of sparsely populated Alpine County, California , McIntire announced that he would counteract the plan by having his followers move to the area in trailers. Neither the activists nor McIntire did anything of the sort. McIntire could combine gravitas with a populist appeal to what he called "the grass roots." A gifted preacher when he chose to be, he seemed to prefer dabbling in politics to Bible exposition. A man who inspired listeners and easily raised money for his various ministries, McIntire had few trustworthy associates to manage

5727-433: The term Fundamentalist included attachment to the fundamentals of the historic Christian religion as defined by the Westminster Confession of Faith , the doctrinal standard of the Presbyterian Church and by the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed . He was a Calvinist who believed that John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion , the Westminster Confession, and the Shorter and Larger Westminster catechisms were

5810-428: The use of tobacco and alcohol. In April 1938, after the Collingswood church lost a civil suit over control of its church property, the congregation walked out en masse from their impressive Gothic building and followed McIntire to a huge tent erected several blocks east on the main street at Haddon Avenue and Cuthbert Boulevard. In May 1938, the congregation moved into a wooden "Tabernacle," and in November 1957, into

5893-419: The very causes he championed. Too often, he seemed to love the fight more than the very valid issues over which the fights raged." McIntire had repeatedly criticized Princeton Theological Seminary , an institution he had left in 1929, as a bastion of theological liberalism. Yet when Princeton honored him almost affectionately as a distinguished alumnus, McIntire responded to its overtures and donated his papers to

5976-598: The young denomination over eschatology , Presbyterian traditions, the use of alcohol and tobacco, and the place of political activity in the church. McIntire and others left in 1937 to form the Bible Presbyterian Church , which emphasized Fundamentalist distinctives in contrast to continental Reformed positions, supporting political involvement, the Scofield Reference Bible , a premillennialist view of eschatology, and abstinence from

6059-435: Was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.92. The median age in the city was 25 years. 14.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 35.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.3% were from 25 to 44; 16.6% were from 45 to 64; and 8.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 22,362 people, 8,551 households, and 3,377 families residing in

6142-434: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.96. In the city, 15.9% of the population was under the age of 18, 38.2% was from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 12.4% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 24 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males. The median income for

6225-551: Was also the home to the main editing site of the Linguist List , a major online resource for the field of linguistics . It was mostly staffed by graduate students who attend Eastern Michigan University and runs several database websites and mailing lists. Ypsilanti is often shortened to "Ypsi", particularly in spoken conversation and local/regional usage. Because a large number of residents or their ancestors migrated from Appalachia , certain neighborhoods (particularly on

6308-572: Was described as an "Ypsitucky Supper" in some of the event organizer's media releases. In 2009, planning began for the "Ypsitucky Jamboree", a new music festival celebrating bluegrass music to be held in Ypsilanti in September 2009; this resulted in objections from some area residents and some members of the City Council, leading to renaming the event as simply "The Jamboree". Scofield Reference Bible The Scofield Reference Bible

6391-563: Was embroiled in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy that had disquieted the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America as well as other Protestant denominations. McIntire became a strong supporter of J. Gresham Machen , a conservative professor of New Testament. With Machen, McIntire opposed a reorganization of the seminary in 1929 that appeared to strengthen liberal elements in

6474-725: Was eventually added to the Ypsilanti Historic District . This site is part of a collection of parcels known as the Water Street Redevelopment Area . It was in Ypsilanti that Preston Tucker (whose family owned the Ypsilanti Machine Tool Company) designed and built the prototypes for his Tucker '48 . Tucker's story was related in the film Tucker: The Man and His Dream , directed by Francis Ford Coppola . In 1945, Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer bought

6557-466: Was formally owned by Faith Theological Seminary. McIntire's outreach included an interest in promoting summer Bible conferences, a common method of evangelization and Bible teaching among American Protestants during the early twentieth century. In 1941, McIntire took a leading role in acquiring and operating Harvey Cedars Bible Conference on the Jersey shore at Harvey Cedars, New Jersey (1941–56). After

6640-509: Was initially operated by Florence W. Signor, who was the only woman theatre operator in Michigan at the time. It was sold to W. S. Butterfield Theatres in 1925. It was converted to an adult theatre in 1971, then to a strip club in 1982. It closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was damaged in a fire three months later. Domino's Pizza was founded in Ypsilanti in 1960 near

6723-501: Was published only a few years before World War I , a war that destroyed a cultural optimism that had viewed the world as entering a new era of peace and prosperity; then the post- World War II era witnessed the creation of a homeland for Jews in Palestine . Thus, Scofield's premillennialism seemed prophetic. "At the popular level, especially, many people came to regard the dispensationalist scheme as completely vindicated." Sales of

6806-623: Was renovated with " Cool Cities Initiative " money and is in the process of being incorporated into the center's activities. Since 2013, Ypsilanti has participated in First Fridays , an arts and culture-based monthly event that features a self-guided tour of participating businesses highlighting local artists, and often free samples of food and drink. The same organization that coordinates the Ypsilanti First Friday event series coordinates Ypsi Pride, established in 2017, and

6889-556: Was supposed to have featured South Vietnamese vice-president Nguyen Cao Ky , but the Nixon administration ensured that Ky would not be present. McIntire attributed the prosecution and conviction of Lt. William Calley on 22 charges related to war crimes at My Lai to "a no-win policy" of the U.S. government in Vietnam. More than once McIntire's sense of the dramatic passed over into the risible, as for instance, when he urged in 1971 that

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