Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?
…equality and class resentments. In your view, what are the prospects for a new social Christianity? Can working people do it again? Great questions. This notion of a “new Gilded Age” has caught on and not without reason, given the extent of labor’s struggles, not to mention the already historic and still growing chasm between rich and poor in the contemporary United States. But in the book I argue that the analogy only goes so far. The late-ninete…
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