In the 1880s Walter Rauschenbusch was a Baptist pastor in the Hell’s Kitchen district of New York City, where he served a poor, hurting, immigrant congregation and where he converted to the social ...

For theological liberals, the name of Walter Rauschenbusch is often reduced to a hashtag for “social gospel.” William Pitts’s carefully researched exploration of the richness and complexity of ...

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 ...

Baptist pastor Walter Rauschenbusch, grandfather of philosopher Richard Rorty, was born in Rochester, New York in 1861. (Wikimedia Commons) Fifty years after his death in 1918, the Baptist minister ...

"Christ's conception of the kingdom of God came to me as a new revelation. Here was the idea and purpose that had dominated the mind of the Master himself … I found ...

Half a century ago, a 46-year-old Baptist minister from Rochester, N.Y. stepped off a ship in New York City after a year’s study abroad and found that he was famous. The book he had sent to the ...

Rauschenbusch began his career in the 1880s as minister of an immigrant church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York. His 1907 book, “Christianity and the Social Crisis” asserted that religion’s ...