“The four gospels are radical, rich, and deep, but they’re not complicated,” BillMcKibben writes. “If you read them and come away saying, ‘I’d like an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle,’ you’re missing the point.”
The private building that’s closest to the U.S. Capitol—indeed, the only nongovernmental building on Capitol Hill proper—belongs to the United Methodist Church. The corner lot—near where the Supreme Court now resides—was a muddy hole when the Reverend Clarence True Wilson spotted it, in 1917, and decided it would be the ideal location for the denomination’s political efforts, especially its campaign for.
We’re used to thinking of Prohibition as a regressive failure, an attempt to legislate morals. It was a failure, and it was an attempt to legislate morals, but it wasn’t regressive. It was led, in large part, by women demanding a better life for their sisters in a country where domestic violence, usually linked to alcohol, was a scourge.
She was no anomaly. Methodism, then the largest Protestant denomination in the country, adopted its Social Creed in 1908, the year that President Theodore Roosevelt addressed its annual conference.
Though it makes me happy, as a Methodist, to recount this history, I don’t do it for recruiting purposes. Methodism was far from perfect; having split regionally over slavery, it trafficked, in the South, with segregation, and it has yet to come fully to terms with gay rights. Nor was it, in its basic social liberalism, an outlier.
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