Cuts to arts and media spawned a coalition of «Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and
cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation.»
Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of
cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical
concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for
workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such
concerns.
These processes
concern the environment and context of the provision of help,
workers» philosophical approach to providing help, as well as the
workers» sensitivities to
cultural and ethnic influences.