Since its beginning in 1900, the Moody Monthly, published by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, has championed the concerns of a unique variety of American conservatism, the fundamentalist movement. The Montly has enjoyed a widespread constituency of pastors, evangelists, missionaries, and lay people, thanks to the prestige of Moody Bible Institute, founded in 1886 by Dwight L. Moody, who was then America's leading evangelist. The Monthly's readers affiliate with scores of different denominations, but they tend to be conservative Baptists, Presbyterians, and independent "Bible church" people, the typical constituents of American fundamentalism. While liberal Protestants have stressed social and political reform as the means for advancing Christ's kingdom, the Monthly has insisted that evangelism and spiritual nurture are Christians' foremost priorities. - The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America / Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton.