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Gardner C. Taylor
American preacher
Gardner Calvin Taylor (June 18, 1918 – April 5, 2015) was an American Baptist preacher.
Dr gardner c taylor biography
He became known as "the dean of American preaching".[1][2]
Biography
Taylor, who was of African American heritage, was born in 1918 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Rev. Washington M.
and Selina Taylor, and was the grandson of emancipated slaves. He grew up in the segregated South of the early 20th century. He graduated from the Oberlin College School of Theology in 1940,[3]
Ministry
As a student, Taylor became the pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Elyria, Ohio, a role he held from 1938 to 1941.
He then became pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church in New Orleans until 1943, and of his father's former congregation, Mount Zion Baptist Church, in Baton Rouge, until 1947. He then became head of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ, the second largest Baptist congregation in the United States with 8,000 members, located in Be