Guy Emery Shipler (July 31, 1881-April 18, 1968) was an American journalist and Episcopal clergyman, known for editing The Churchman.
[9] Shipler was ordered to pay $10,200 but the money was raised with help from prominent Catholic and Jewish organizations that supported his journal.
[12] In 1939, he denounced Charles Coughlin in front of an audience of 1,000, describing him actions as "dropping a torch into a world filled with high explosives".
[13] Encouraged by Lucile Bernheimer Milner to confront Coughlin's views, he devoted a special issue of The Churchman to anti-Fascism.
[17] In 1949, several guests to the annual Churchman Award Dinner declined the invitation because of the magazine's political views, with Leon M. Birkhead stating that the magazine was "so involved with the Communist party line that it is quite impossible for me any longer to participate in its activities"[18] In 1950, he publicly defended William H. Melish against Louis Budenz's accusation that Melish was a member of the Communist Party, writing that the accusation was part of a witch hunt "spearheaded by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, representing the Vatican political state"[19] In 1953, Shipler was accused of being a Communist by Reinhold Niebuhr with little evidence, though Niebuhr eventually apologized for the accusation the following year.