I don't feel that well today, so no posts---other than this one, which is what it is.

I read through Twenty Years At Hull-House last night and I understand the foundations of the social gospel movement better now.

A quote from the book and then I'll call it a day:

I believe that there is a distinct turning among many young men and women toward this simple acceptance of Christ's message. They resent the assumption that Christianity is a set of ideas which belong to the religious consciousness, whatever that may be. They insist that it cannot be proclaimed and instituted apart from the social life of the community and that it must seek a simple and natural expression in the social organism itself. The Settlement movement is only one manifestation of that wider humanitarian movement which throughout Christendom, but pre-eminently in England, is endeavoring to embody itself, not in a sect, but in society itself. ---Jane Addams, Twenty Years At Hull House

  Time for some tea.