(The Conversation) — President Donald Trump has praised the Gilded Age, which he believes was a time of immense national prosperity thanks to tariffs, no income tax, and few regulations on business.

The “social gospel” has been a powerful yet controversial force within Christian history, particularly within American Protestantism. Emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this movement ...

People are often the hero of their own story, but what happens when we try to make ourselves the hero of somebody else’s story? In her account of labor reform and Christian socialism in the early 20th ...

Would Jesus go on strike? Fain embodies this shift in thinking. He reached deep into the Social Gospel throughout the UAW strike, routinely deploying what one commentator called “strikingly Christian ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. This book is a remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement. The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty ...

Next week in the interdisciplinary program I teach in will be “Social Gospel” week. Students will read Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum for Tuesday lecture, then essays from Herbert Spencer ...

We find ourselves in a situation where there is no pleasure in saying “I told you so” to a voter who felt the nation would be best served politically and economically by a second Trump presidency. Two ...

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