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100 years ago, the Social Gospel movement pushed to improve workers’ lives – but also to promote its vision of Christian America

  • Written by Christina Littlefield, Associate Professor of Communication and Religion, Pepperdine University
imageImmigrant children from Central Europe at a settlement house in St. Louis.Thomasa.nagel/Wikimedia Commons

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.

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