American Decades

Important Events in Religion, 1900–1909

The Christian Oracle, a journal circulated by the Disciples of Christ, changes its name to Christian Century. The journal became interdenominational in 1916.
Nannie Helen Burroughs founds the Women's Auxiliary Convention of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. She gives an influential speech titled "How the Sisters Are Hindered From Helping."
Congregationalist preacher and Social Gospel theologian Washington Gladden runs for city council in Columbus, Ohio, and wins a two-year term.
On January 8, Mormon church president Lorenzo Snow releases a statement saying the Church had "positively abandoned the practice of polygamy, or the solemnization of plural marriages…"
On January 25, the House of Representatives votes 268-50 to unseat Congressman-elect Brigham H. Roberts of Utah because of his having three wives and an undetermined number of children. The Mormon...

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