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HuffPost
April 29, 2018
The ostentatiously devout Pruitt gives Trump cred among evangelical Christian power players at a time when five Republican lawmakers and 170 Democrats in ... White evangelical Christians, more than 80 percent of whom supported Trump in 2016, are the least likely of any religious group in the U.S. toÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 29, 2018
Of those who do belong to a congregation, the largest group contains evangelical Christians—although their numbers are declining, roughly 60 million are white evangelical Christians. Eighty percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016. In their recent study, Make America Christian Again:Ãâà...
Yellowhammer News
April 28, 2018
Booker's grilling of Pompeo prime example of 'religious test' to exclude evangelical Christians from office ... He's an Evangelical Christian and he actually participates in a conservative Presbyterian church that is well-known for its being faithful to the Word of God, its preaching ministry and its discipling ministry.
Patheos (blog)
April 28, 2018
“Modernists,” Mathews asserted, “as a class are evangelical Christians. That is, they accept Jesus Christ as the ... And again the point of this exercise is not to decide whether the University of Chicago or Princeton Seminary were better sources of Christian truth. The point, simply, is to show that the wordÃâà...
Yellowhammer News
April 27, 2018
He's an Evangelical Christian and he actually participates in a conservative Presbyterian church that is well-known for its being faithful to the Word of God, ... Now, with unabashed transparency, our Senate is now applying a religious test and the religious test targets consistent Evangelical Christians who believe in the ruleÃâà...
The Conversation US
April 25, 2018
In recent years, many former fundamentalists prefer other labels, such as “conservative evangelical” or simply “Christian.” Liberty has often taken the lead as the movement's public face. Conservative politicians have rushed to flatter Liberty's conservative vision. In 2017, for example, President Trump offeredÃâà...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — The conservative Christian coalition that helped usher President Trump into power in 2016 is planning its largest midterm election ... The vast majority of evangelical Christians are digging in for Mr. Trump, despite accusations by a pornographic film star and a Playboy playmate that heÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
April 22, 2018
“You're looking at name-brand conservative evangelicals that are very comfortable talking to Christian media types.” Jeff Sessions, Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry, Ben Carson and Pence, all evangelical Christians who talk frequently about faith, are among those who have appeared on CBN since Trump took officeÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 22, 2018
Evangelical Christians don't have to wade too deeply into the Bible to find the verse in the book of Genesis that's often pointed to as addressing climate change: “And .... The Young Evangelicals for Climate Change, for example, was formed to advocate on the campuses of Christian colleges and beyond.
Christian News Network
April 18, 2018
Ukraine (Mission Network News) – Evangelical churches in Eastern Ukraine are facing a closure threat. Recently, the local government in the Luhansk region, which is controlled by separatists, passed a law, which restricts how churches in the area can operate. “Basically [it] forbids the churches to conductÃâà...
SCNow
April 18, 2018
South Carolina Republicans and evangelical Christians continue to give Donald Trump a strong endorsement in the latest poll from Winthrop University. "Christian," "godly," "moral" and "strong" are words a majority of self-identified Republicans used to describe the president, as did many who calledÃâà...
Christian Post
April 17, 2018
John MacArthur: Evangelical Christians Today 'Tolerate False Gospel,' Avoid Sanctification for 'Relevance' ... Defining sanctification as "the work of the Holy Spirit separating sinners from sin," MacArthur said the apostle wrote to Christians who were in "danger" of ... It's definitional for Christian discipleship.
Dallas News
April 17, 2018
I hope Almasi and these "values voters" and evangelical Christians realize the message they are sending their children is that it is OK for them to be dishonest or do immoral things in order to get what they want. What a sad, frightening and un-Christian lesson to teach. Kay Hagadone, CoppellÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
April 14, 2018
The Washington Post's Sarah Pulliam Bailey reports that a group of about 50 prominent evangelical leaders — but not the ones associated with Donald Trump — are planning to meet next week at Wheaton College in Illinois to talk about the future and “soul” of their faith.
The Guardian
April 14, 2018
Evangelicals have traditionally been the bedrock of conservative politics in the US, including on climate change. But a heated debate is taking place across the country, with some Christians protesting in the name of protecting the Earth. One group has built a chapel in the way of a pipeline, and a radicalÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
April 13, 2018
A senior ABC producer told the Associated Press she was troubled that Jennings had hired a Southern "born-again Christian," which told me she was worried that one of ... Fox Evangelicals -- a new term -- refers to politically conservative Christians who sip a cocktail that is part Sean Hannity, part Jesus.
Vox
April 13, 2018
On one side of the conflict was Liberty University, the evangelical Christian college founded by Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell (who died in 2007) and now .... The Red Letter Christians aren't alone among evangelicals uncomfortable with the way GOP politics and Christianity have become intertwined.
The News-Press
April 13, 2018
The Lee County Sheriff's Office arrested Suzanne Owen, 35, who taught at Evangelical Christian in south Fort Myers, on Wednesday, charging her with custodial sexual battery, a first-degree felony. The Sheriff's Office said Owen and the student had one sexual encounter and exchanged text messages forÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 8, 2018
John M. Perkins, a leading evangelical voice on racial reconciliation, thinks that 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the church is not ... He gave a Friday night talk at Christ Presbyterian Academy, a private Christian school in Nashville that is a ministry of Christ Presbyterian Church.
The Independent
April 6, 2018
Evangelical Christian leaders are hoping to meet with Donald Trump to raise mounting concerns about the drama surrounding his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels and claims levelled at the president by other women. The billionaire businessman secured huge support from white Christians in the 2016Ãâà...
ChristianityToday.com
March 30, 2018
Here is where there has been an explosive growth of Christians. For example, in 1900 in Latin America, there were just 50,000 Evangelicals. Today in that region, there are a 100 million. Any conversation on this issue needs to take into account how the term is understood by Christian colleagues in otherÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 29, 2018
The Rev. Jose Rodriguez, of the Waltham Worship Christian Center, speaks Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at the start a 40-day period of fasting in Boston where some Evangelical Christian leaders and advocates are fasting to bring attention to immigration issues affecting members of their congregations.
The Texas Observer
March 29, 2018
And Jeffress himself, an outspoken supporter of the idea that America is a Christian nation, argued in his 2016 Twilight's Last Gleaming that Christian leaders are preferable to non-Christians because their “core beliefs” work to restrain them from “immorality” and “corruption.” But that was before Trump'sÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 28, 2018
A recent Pew study finds that 78 percent of white evangelical Christians still support Presdent Trump, although the survey was taken before Stromy Daniels' "60 Minutes" inteview. CBSN political contributor and Boston Herald columnist Michael Graham joined "Red and Blue" to discuss his latest piece forÃâà...
Vox
March 27, 2018
To ignore or excuse the Daniels saga, some evangelical Christians are even using a biblical comparison to explain their continued support for Donald ... The David of the Christian Bible and the Jewish Tanakh is perhaps best known for the story of David and Goliath, in which David, a young shepherd,Ãâà...
The Telegraph (blog)
March 24, 2018
They referred to this phenomenon “hurting your witness,” and if you're an evangelical Christian for whom winning other souls for Christ is one of the most ... And it is something that has come back to me when I see a significant number of people who refer to themselves as evangelical Christians givingÃâà...
The Nation.
March 22, 2018
An evangelical himself, Gerson excoriates those leaders who make outlandish excuses for Trump's behavior (my personal favorite: James Dobson's explanation that the president is a “baby Christian”). Evangelicals, he says, have been driven to a kind of paranoia by their loss of cultural hegemony: They fallÃâà...
Mission Network News
March 21, 2018
United States (MNN) – Did you know there's an entire people group in the United States who are relatively unengaged? “Only 10 percent of the Latino population in the U.S. are born-again Christians. And after reading the data, perhaps by 2050, this country could be a *majority Latino country,” sharesÃâà...
Raw Story
March 16, 2018
White evangelical Christians really only care about one thing — and everything else is a sham .... First, you get to deny the messy stakes of loving the born and bodied—those with melanin in their skin, different kinds of hair, genderqueer expressions, immigrant parents, and non-Christian faiths. Second, youÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2018
We know from Scripture (and experience) that evangelical Christians are guilty of sin, and we know from Scripture that we must love sinners — including hypocrites and adulterers — within the body of Christ and without. Hypocrisy is not the one sin that removes humans from the category of sinners whomÃâà...
Vox
March 15, 2018
That Pompeo is an evangelical Christian is, on its face, not particularly notable; 25 percent of Americans are. But Pompeo's specific ... is particularly noteworthy. The rapture is a distinctively American fringe theology that says Christians will be taken up, or “raptured,” into heaven at the onset of the end times.
Patheos (blog)
March 11, 2018
Naturally, Maher takes far too much credit for being a voice of reason, as if he's the only one doing it, but that doesn't take away from his main point that Trump has exposed the moral bankruptcy of white evangelical Christians. There is no moral high ground for them anymore. We know they'll let anythingÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
Large Christian ministries were dedicated to the aim of integration, and many black Christians decided to join white-majority congregations. Some went as ... This was more likely to be the case in evangelical churches than in mainline Protestant churches, and more likely in larger ones than in smaller ones.
Jakarta Globe
March 8, 2018
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and evangelical Christian, says she gets slammed every day on social media for her contributions to establishing that climate change is human-made. But on Monday (05/03), she was welcomed with applause at a United Nations-backed climate summit in the capital of Canada'sÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2018
Why evangelical Christians fool themselves about Trump's religiosity ... Evangelicals who back President Trump because they want a right-wing Supreme Court find an equally specious excuse for supporting a clearly corrupt person by congratulating themselves on their belief in repentance and redemptionÃâà...
Kansas City Star (blog)
March 4, 2018
For example, Trump took a car ride with Mike Pence along with Billy Graham's son Franklin and Tony Perkins, a leading figure on the Christian right, during the Louisiana floods of 2016. Impressed by what Graham's Christian ministry had done for flood victims, Trump told him that he was writing it aÃâà...
Breaking Israel News
March 4, 2018
The Jewish holiday of Purim, known as the Feast of Lots among the Christian community, commemorates God's victory and deliverance for His people. Jews rejoice in the bravery of Queen Esther who recognized that she was given the position to defend and stand with the nation of Israel “for such a time asÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
March 2, 2018
In a recent New York Times op-ed, David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network cast Trump as God's gift to evangelical Christians, arguing, “The Bible is replete with examples of flawed individuals being used to accomplish God's will.” Congressional Republicans often defend the president, but fewÃâà...
HuffPost
February 23, 2018
A small group of evangelical Christian leaders is hoping to promote stricter gun legislation by injecting a key element of conservative Christian theology ... dead, the group has put forward a petition that uses the language of the anti-abortion movement to encourage fellow Christians to fight for gun reform.
Newsweek
February 23, 2018
The death of Billy Graham occurred at a moment when white American evangelicals – a group that he, more than any other figure of the twentieth century, helped to galvanize and lead into the corridors of power – were stronger Republican partisans than ever, with 82 percent of white evangelical votersÃâà...
TIME
February 21, 2018
Here's one thing all Evangelicals — and Christians of every stripe, actually — hold to be true: humans are sinful. They cannot stop being sinful. They will always be sinful. This is why, according to the Christian gospel, the Father deployed his Son and that Son died; to take the rap for sin. If any human couldÃâà...
The Independent
February 17, 2018
But evangelical Christians in particular also face a time of reckoning as they populate the pews. How much longer can they support Donald Trump and face themselves in the mirror? So far the religious revolt has not come. Asked recently how he reconciles his political support for Trump with his faith,Ãâà...
The News-Press
December 31, 1999
A teacher at Evangelical Christian School is facing charges for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with one of her students. A Lee County Sheriff's Office release said detectives on Wednesday began investigating the alleged sexual relationship between Suzanne Lea Owen, 35, a high schoolÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
December 31, 1999
They don't care. There's nothing Trump can do, it seems, that'll convince those Christians to walk away. They're addicted to his power as much as he is. Remember: Whatever Trump does, now and in the future, you have white evangelicals to thank… or blame. They're the one group that's stuck by his sideÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump. She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat. But she is open to another Republican. “I would like for someone to challenge him,” Ms. Rains said, as she sippedÃâà...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Non-Christians weren't the only people who were shocked. “Most evangelical Christians like me exclaimed, 'Who are these people?'” wrote Mark Galli, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, in his essay. “'I know hardly anyone, let alone any evangelical Christian[s], who voted for Trump.'” In trying toÃâà...
Forward
December 31, 1999
As an evangelical Christian, I have a long-standing appreciation for the unusual struggles and against-the-odds successes taking place in Israel. My interest ... The Tanakh, or the “Old Testament” as it is called by Christians, contains much hopeful history and underpinned Western culture for two millennia.
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