The Sunday school movement began in Britain in the 1780s. The Industrial Revolution had resulted in many children spending all week long working in factories. Christian philanthropists wanted to ...

In Britain, the first Sunday school opened in Nottingham in 1751 but it was with the fertile imagination of Robert Raikes, editor of the Gloucester Journal, that the movement really took hold.

It was not always so, and they have the Americans to thank—sort of. The modern Sunday school movement began in late 18th-century Britain and spread quickly to the United States. In 1825 ...

What’s the goal of these Sunday schools? The Sunday school movement arose because there was a whole generation of immigrant children who did not have access to Jewish education, because their ...

But the origins of Sunday School tell a story about the kind of progressive evangelicalism that Carter is known for. The movement began in 18th century England thanks to the efforts of a reformer ...

The Sunday School movement started with an emphasis on kids, with adult classes coming later, partly in response to the question, "What do we do with the adults while the kids are learning?" ...

While Sunday school conjures up images of postwar America ... Even as the civil rights movement gained momentum, churches remained racially divided in most parts of the country.

The figures given show a decrease of 32,000 in one year. In America, on the contrary, the Sunday school movement is increasing in popularity. Advertisement ...

In his historical account of the movement, Philip Cliff explains that Robert Raikes, an Anglican layman and disputed pioneer of the first Sunday school, intended Sunday schools to shift from teaching ...

Yet, for 100 years, an astonishing effect was brought about by the Sunday school movement. The bicentenary of its reputed founder, Robert Raikes (1736-1811), is celebrated this week. The figures ...