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The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel [1] [2] and Al Raby. It was supported by the Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
"The Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern" is a document drafted in 1973 by several evangelical faith leaders, and signed by 53 signatories. Concerned with what they saw as a diversion between Christian faith and a commitment to social justice, the "Chicago Declaration" was written as a call to reject racism, economic materialism, economic inequality, militarism, and sexism. [1]
The Christian Connection was a Christian movement in the United States of America that developed in several places during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, composed of members who withdrew from other Christian denominations. It was influenced by settling the frontier as well as the formation of the new United States and its separation ...
The Social Gospel was a Christian movement that emerged in late 19th-century America as a response to the obscene levels of inequality in a rapidly industrializing country.
Elias Smith had heard of the Stone movement by 1804, and the O'Kelly movement by 1808. [6]: 190 The three groups merged by 1810. [6]: 190 At that time the combined movement had a membership of approximately 20,000. [6]: 190 This loose fellowship of churches was called by the names "Christian Connection/Connexion" or "Christian Church."
Elements moving toward a particular point are part of the set, but elements moving away from that point are not. As a centered-set Christian membership would be dependent on moving toward the central point of Jesus. A Christian is then defined by their focus and movement toward Christ rather than a limited set of shared beliefs and values. [39]
That’s a slight, but noteworthy, move to the right from four years ago, in which Pew reported that 48% of Catholics leaned toward the Republican Party and 47% supported the Democratic Party.
1731 – A missionary movement is born when Count Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf attends the coronation of King Christian VI of Denmark and witnesses two of Egede's Inuit converts. Over the next two years, his Moravian Church at Herrnhut will begin its missionary outreach with work among the slaves in the Caribbean and the Inuit in Greenland. [175]