Martin Marty, the unparalleled scholar of American religious history at the University of Chicago, lists his top preacher picks to replace Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore:

Walter Rauschenbush, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King, Jr., and William Sloane Coffin. They all preached to many classes of people, including those powerful enough to get their names in print. Some hearers were alienated and walked away to receive sweeter messages (as some blacks now do, too, with the non-biblical “Prosperity Gospel”). Some did not.