“History does not offer quick-and-easy solutions,” says Heath Carter, PhD. “But whether it is racial injustice or economic inequality, or any number of issues beyond, the challenges we face today are not new. Their roots stretch deep into the past. And if we don’t understand how we got here, we’ll struggle to find a faithful way forward.” Join me for a live conversation with Dr. Carter who teaches a class on Slavery at Princeton since 1865 and much more. His research agenda is focused on the intersection of Christianity and public life. The book he is working on now. On Earth As It Is In Heaven: Social Christians and the Fight to End American Inequality will offer a new history of American social Christianity from the Civil War through the civil rights movement. “It follows the stories of believers who saw the fight against structural inequality as a really important part of what it meant to be a faithful Christian in the modern world,” Carter says. Their activism reverberated far beyond the walls of the church.

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