American Decades
"Interchurch World Movement Report"
Report
By: Interchurch World Movement
Date: 1920
Source: Interchurch World Movement. "Interchurch World Movement Report." In The Steel Strike of 1919, ed. Colston E. Warne. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1963, 90–97.
About the Organization: The Interchurch World Movement (IWM) was a Christian interfaith organization founded in 1918. It represented one of the most ambitious projects of American Protestantism, with its goals being to coordinate the resources of the American churches to evangelize the world and to tackle a variety of other religious and social objectives. Its goals were too varied, however, and discord over its objectives led members to begin leaving in 1920. Thereafter, it soon dissolved and the churches resumed their individual activities.
Introduction
During World War I (1914–1918), Protestant denominations in the United States raised $200...
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1910's Religion Primary Sources
- A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects
- "The Church and the Labor Question"
- "Cardinal's Golden Jubilee"
- America in the Making
- Acres of Diamonds
- Prisoners of Hope and Other Sermons
- "What the Bible Contains for the Believer"
- A Theology for the Social Gospel
- The Churches of Christ in Time of War
- Cardinal Gibbons' Letter to the U.S. Archbishops
- "A Program for the Reconstruction of Judaism"
- "Interchurch World Movement Report"
- Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
