The Crowell Trust (full name: The Henry Parsons Crowell and Susan Coleman Crowell Trust) is a charitable foundation in the United States which states that it "is dedicated to the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of Evangelical Christianity". It has funded a television program opposing

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, which television station KNME refused to broadcast. The foundation was established in 1927 by American businessman

Henry Parsons Crowell Henry Parsons Crowell (1855–1944) was an American businessman, 1901 founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a philanthropist.Musser, Joe (1997). ''The Cereal Tycoon''. Moody Press. , p.3, 154. Career As the founder of the Quaker Oats Company, He ...

, who was founder of the

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, but not himself a Quaker. The foundation makes grants to various organizations in order to promote

Evangelical Christianity Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...

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