Many of the
early leaders of the social gospel movement were
pastors whose concern for individual slum dwellers, the poor, the prisoners and the sick led them to
attack the social sources of human misery and to understand the corporate character of human sin.
The perception of Mr. de Blasio as an ungracious winner set in
early: At the new mayor's inauguration on Jan. 1, 2014, multiple speakers
attacked Mr. Bloomberg's record in caustic terms, with one
pastor comparing New York under Mr. Bloomberg to a plantation.