UAW President Shawn Fain Is Reviving That Old-Time Religion
Mixing Bible verses with class-struggle rhetoric, Shawn Fain’s pro-labor Christianity stands in a rich tradition brimming with scripture-quoting union workers and labor leaders.
2 Articles by: Heath W. Carter
Heath W. Carter is associate professor of American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago.
UAW President Shawn Fain Is Reviving That Old-Time Religion: Christian Radicalism
Mixing Bible verses with class-struggle rhetoric, Shawn Fain’s pro-labor Christianity has baffled some in the media. But the UAW leader stands in a rich tradition brimming with scripture-quoting union workers and labor prophets like Eugene Debs and MLK.