American Decades
Important Events in Religion, 1920–1929
1920
• The Hartford Theological Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, announces that it will no longer require female applicants for admission to declare they do not intend to seek ordination.
1921
- The American Association of Women Preachers begins publication of Woman's Pulpit.
- Junior Hadassah is founded as an auxiliary of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
- The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America is created by the Ecumenical Patriarch.
- On May 25, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern) urges federal marriage and divorce laws.
- On November 10, Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League in New York City. It is a combination of the Birth Control League, which she founded in 1914, and the Voluntary Parenthood League, founded by Mary Ware Dennett in 1919. The issue of contraception becomes a major...
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1920's Religion
