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What Was Chautauqua

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/essay.htm

Historical essay on the Christian educational movement named after the resort in New York state.

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The Reverend Henry Wallace

http://www.anbhf.org/pdf/wallace.pdf

Paper by economics professor Richard E. Hattwick on the social gospel minister and agricultural reformer who was the grandfather of Vice President Henry A. Wallace.

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The Ram's Horn

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/Rams_Horn/

Presenting texts and especially cartoons from The Ram's Horn, an interdenominational social gospel magazine of the 1890s in the United States.

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The Life and Times of the Prophet Vernon Johns: Father of the Civil Rights Movement

http://www.vernonjohns.org/tcal001/vjtofc.html

Online book by Dr. Patrick L. Cooney  and Henry W. Powell examines the life of the liberal clergeyman and civil rights leader with an extensive look at liberal Christianity and its role in the social justice movements.

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The Christian Socialist Movement

http://www.thecsm.org.uk/

Based in Britain and active in the Labour Party, the CSM is in a tradition that stretches back to the early church. "We all share a belief in justice, peace and the wholeness of creation."

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Social Gospel

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0007522

The Social Gospel is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1890s through the 1930s.

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Social Gospel

http://latter-rain.com/kingdom/socgos.htm

Short discussion of the conflict between social gospel and evangelical Christianity.

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Social Gospel

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S65ME.html/

Article from the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.

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Social and Religious Context of the Social Gospel

http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/kpotter/pol_rel.htm

The excesses of the Victorian age gave foundation to a number of important political and religious trends that which converged to give rise to the Social Gospel.

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Sharing the social gospel - Their Christian Duty: Canadian Missionaries Abroad

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-1083-6022/life_society/missionaries/clip1

For Canadians in China, missionary work went beyond spreading the word of the Bible. Resources from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Practical Christian Socialism

http://www.adinballou.org/pcs.shtml

Selections from Practical Christianity, An Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism by Adin Ballou, edited by Lynn Gordon Hughes.

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lifeissues.net | The Churches and the Social Gospel

http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/ron/ron_125socialchurch.html

Ronald Rolheiser argues that the churches have been, and still are, at those places with the poor where nobody else wants to be.

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Liberalism in Religious Thought - White Social Gospel

http://www.vernonjohns.org/tcal001/vjwscgsp.html

Background information on the social gospel movement in the twentieth century and prominent figures in it.

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Jubilee: The Social Gospel - Revival of Socialism

http://www.piney.com/JubileJewish.html

Christian view on the concept of the Jewish concept of Jubilee which means the redistribution of wealth, the protection of the earth, and the celebration of community.

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Jerusalem

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rulebritannia.html#Jerusalem

Hymn favoured by Christian socialists and the social gospel movement in Britain and North America.

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Fundamentalism and the Social Gospel

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_gospel.html

Background article from the companion site to PBS' American Experience episode on the Scope's Monkey Trial.

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