After reading Moser’s book, he wrote a series of articles in the Gospel Advocate arguing that churches should financially support educational institutions and charities.
He faced opposition in this belief from figures such as Foy E. Wallace; the two engaged in a longstanding feud over this and other issues, across Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures[4] and in the pages of the Gospel Advocate and other periodicals.
in Hicks) whereas Brewer sought to de-emphasize legalism and human works and to promote a theory of God-given "unmerited favor" (Hughes 186).
Disagreements between Brewer and Wallace (albeit more financial than theological) eventually led to a schism, whereby they debated the propriety of churches funding colleges.
Historian Richard Hughes has characterized Wallace's "fighting style" (176-77, 182-85) in a way that could well describe Brewer's rhetorical aggression.
Lipscomb had been a lifelong pacifist, even during the Civil War, yet Brewer believed that the threat of Communism was simply too great to ignore.
Brewer therefore balanced his disengagement from the ways of the world with his active concerns for the Christian identity of American politics.
He blamed liberated fallen women for irresistibly tempting good Christian boys into sexual sin.
Sinful men can be reformed, but, "When woman goes wrong... there is little hope of ever reaching her...she can never be worth anything in his world...it were better for her to go immediately to the electric chair."
Brewer was also a conspiracy theorist, claiming that "The United States passed completely under the control of Roman Catholics, Jews and Communists under the reign of Franklin D. Roosevelt".
His brother, Dr. Charles R. Brewer, was also a notable preacher and a teacher at David Lipscomb University, where a bell tower still stands in his honor in 2022.