From Social Gospel to Contraception

October 1st, 2025 | 6 min read

This excerpt from Daniel K. Williams, Abortion and America's Churches: A Religious History of Roe v. Wade is published with permission of University of Notre Dame Press.

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Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. He is currently writing a history of Protestant Christian apologetics that is under contract with Oxford University Press.

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From Social Gospel to Contraception

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