John Emerson Roberts

John Emerson Roberts (1853 - 1942) Was A Kansas City Missouri Success Story. Arriving In 1881 As A Baptist Minister His Developing Ideas Led Him To Abandon The Idea Of Hell And Become A Unitarian. Soon That Became Too Limited For Him And He Decided To Preach On His Own As A Freethinker. The Local Press Eagerly Followed His Progress. While His Intellectual Journey Was Common In His Generation He Was Unique In Creating A ??Church?? Of Freethought. His Sermons And Lectures Show A Mixture Of Original Thinking And Conventional Ideas Typical Of His Time. As An Admirer Of Robert Ingersoll The Nineteenth Century Agnostic And A Friend Of Clarence Darrow The Twentieth Century Atheist Roberts??S Career Spans An Era Of Significant Change In Both Cultural And Intellectual History.This Pioneering Study Restores To Memory The Life And Work Of A Once Noted And Popular Religious Leader Who Went From Baptist Pastor To Unitarian Minister And Finally To An Independent Role In