1910's Religion | "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...