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  • Conservative Social Christianity, the Law, and Personal Morality: Wilbur F. Crafts in Washington

  • Gaines M. Foster
  • Journal:
    Church History / Volume 71 / Issue 4 / December 2002
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2009, pp. 799-819
    Print publication:
    December 2002

  • In 1895, Wilbur F. Crafts opened on office in Washington, D.C. and proclaimed himself a Christian lobbyist. Over the next quarter century, until his death in 1922, he mobilized churches and individual Christians to pressure Congress on behalf of bills, some he had written, to limit divorce, to control sexuality, and to restrict or prohibit the use of narcotics and alcohol. He also led an unsuccessful campaign for federal censorship of the movies. Crafts deserves more attention than historians of American religion have paid him. His legislative accomplishments render his career important in itself, but an analysis of his theology and lobbying efforts also helps historians better conceptualize social Christianity and the social gospel.