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Capitalist Christianity: A History of Evangelicalism + Big Business

Straight White American Jesus

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Billy Sunday

Billy Sunday was an influence on American religion in the early 20th century, kind of a forerunner to some of the people you might be familiar with. "There is something ingrained in evangelicals and it's so individualistic," he says. The social gospel movement at the time was derided as 'nonsense' by Billy Sunday.

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