It was 1907 and the United States was transitioning rapidly from an agrarian society to an industrial one. Workers, for the most part, were underpaid, factories were hazardous, sweatshops exploited child labor. And a group of Methodists was outraged.
Fast forward 116 years to find the denomination’s top legislative body set to vote on the Revised Social Principles, the latest version of that early 20th century document called the Social Creed. Across more than a century of societal transformation, United Methodists remain committed to support and preserve God’s creation, both for the natural world and for the people who live in it.
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