Over at Sojourners, American religious historian Randall Balmer traces the history of progressive evangelicalism in the 1970s. Here is a taste of “Before the Religious Right, Progressive Evangelicals Gained the National Spotlight“: Richard Nixon’s promise of a “secret plan” to...
Brantley Gasaway
Progressive Evangelicals Revive the 1973 Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern
In 1973, a group of evangelical leaders gathered at the YMCA on Wabash Avenue in Chicago to affirm the Christian call to racial justice, care for the poor, peace, and equality for women. The result of this meeting was The...
AHA Dispatch: “Case Studies in Evangelical Parachurch Ministries”
We are very happy to have Brantley Gasaway writing for The Way of Improvement Leads Home from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In this report, Gasaway reflects on a session at the American Society of Church History,...
What Did James Dobson Tell the National Association of Evangelicals When It Invited Bill Clinton to Its “Annual Event?”
Brantley Gasaway, an American religious historian at Bucknell University and author of the excellent Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice, tweeted this letter today in response to my Washington Post piece on the court evangelicals. It comes from the archives of the...
The Anabaptist Turn in American Evangelical Historiography
In some respects we are all Anabaptists these days–at least those of us who are bothered by the way politicians tend to conflate the church and the United States of America. I don’t know what the prevalence of Christian nationalism...
Brantley Gasaway: Diversity and Debates With the Social Gospel Tradition
Brantley Gasaway of Bucknell University offers another dispatch from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta. See all of his AHA 2016 posts here. While historians devote much of our time to critically examining...
Brantley Gasaway: "Long Live the 'Culture Wars'?"
I am very excited to have Brantley Gasaway writing for us this weekend from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta. Brantley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University. He is the author...