They spoke from pulpits, lectured across the country and wrote best-selling books. Fain’s sermonette underscores a trend that has largely gone unnoticed: The Social Gospel movement is making a ...

Throughout American history, religion has played a significant role in promoting social reform. From the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century to the civil rights movement of the 20th ...

The book he had sent to the publishers before ... Crisis lit the Protestant beacon that came to be known as the Social Gospel. Last week a round table at the University of Chicago’s Federated ...

Out of the yeasty intellectual ferment in which U. S. churches today find themselves, such contradictory opinions on the Social Gospel have lately bubbled up to the surface of news. An older ...

The first thing he does is call everyone to turn away from the unjust dominant economic social order ... proclaim the Gospel of peace. Editor's note: John Dear is currently on a book tour to ...