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The '''Federal Council of Churches''' was a prominent cooperative of churches, formed in 1908, at the height<ref>{{cite book|url=|https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5rZw3B4pw0C&pg=PA290|title=The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America|date=1976|publisher=Temple University Press}}</ref> of the [[Social Gospel]] movement.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Social_Gospel.aspx Social Gospel facts, information, and pictures]</ref>
The '''Federal Council of Churches''' was a prominent cooperative of churches, formed in 1908, at the height<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5rZw3B4pw0C&pg=PA290|title=The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing America|date=1976|publisher=Temple University Press}}</ref> of the [[Social Gospel]] movement.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Social_Gospel.aspx Social Gospel facts, information, and pictures]</ref> The council was at the fore-front of left wing Christianity, fighting against the [[Wealth redistribution|unequal distribution of wealth]] and working toward [[Industrial Democracy]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n3_QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63 Quadrennial Report, Volume 5]</ref>
It merged in 1950 with other organizations to become the [[National Council of Churches]].
It merged in 1950 with other organizations to become the [[National Council of Churches]].
Early on, [[Harry F. Ward]], a prominent communist and later president of the [[ACLU]], was the council's secretary.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tHcAAAAAMAAJ The Social Creed of the Churches], by Harry F. Ward</ref>
==References==
==References==
==External Links==
==External Links==
* [http://www.jstor.org/stable/42973968?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Internationalizing the Social Gospel: The Federal Council of Churches and European Protestantism, 1914-1925]
* [http://www.jstor.org/stable/42973968?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Internationalizing the Social Gospel: The Federal Council of Churches and European Protestantism, 1914-1925]
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[[Category:Progressive Era]]