America's premier Protestant preacher of the early part of this century, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, once told a story from his early days as presiding minister of the great Riverside Church in New York. It seems that Fosdick, liberal by theological standards of the time, was turned off by much contemporary preaching with its emphasis on sin and threat. He vowed he would place his emphasis on the love and forgiveness of God. One day a man who had attended Riverside for several months approached Fosdick to say that although he was not a church member, he had found great solace in the preaching emphasis of that church. Several more months passed and one day Fosdick realized he hadn't seen the man for quite some time. He made some inquiries and learned that the man was currently in prison for …