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And close ties to Trump will eventually be disastrous to causes that evangelicals care about. Pro-life arguments are discredited by an association with misogyny. Arguments for religious liberty are discredited by association with anti-Islamic bias. Arguments for family values are discredited by nativist disdain ...
And for evangelicals to be some of the most loyal supporters to that is really risking, you know, a serious association of their faith with bias, particularly in an increasingly diverse nation. I mean, you can't associate your faith with exclusion without serious social and religious consequences. MCCAMMON: ...

I think there are short-term benefits from this alliance, but I think the association of evangelicalism with ethnopopulism in the medium to long term is absolutely disastrous from the perspective of issues that evangelicals care about. I mean, it undermines pro-life argumentation to associate with misogyny.
But a new argument from Michael Gerson, a prominent adviser to (and speechwriter for) George W. Bush, takes the critique of his fellow white Evangelicals quite a bit further. Yes, he agrees with the familiar complaints about Christian-right leaders whitewashing Trump and excusing his heathenish behavior ...
The present Albright College was formed by a series of mergers with other institutions of higher learning founded in the 19th century by the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church. Albright Collegiate Institute was founded in 1895 and became Albright College in 1898. Union Seminary ...

“The injudicious association of religion with politics, in the time of Cromwell,” Beecher argued, “brought upon evangelical doctrine and piety, in England, an odium which has not ceased to this day.” Yet few evangelicals would have denied that God's covenantal relationship with America required a higher ...
Trump's decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem late last year, for example, might have been seen as one such curated response, evoking the historical association between Cyrus and the liberation of the Jewish people as a kind of dog whistle to evangelical voters that he's on their ...

National Religious Broadcasters, an evangelical association of Christian communicators, has made it a priority issue, said Jerry Johnson, NRB's president and CEO. The association has started tracking examples of social media and other online platforms restricting Christian and conservative viewpoints.
But there is another wing of the evangelical movement whose members are more moderate politically, many of them black, Latino, Asian, or city dwellers, or young. Some of these evangelicals have grown increasingly discomfited by the close association with the Republican Party, and now, with Mr. Trump.
“Billy was sort of the original evangelical,” argued Jack Graham, the pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, who serves with Laurie on ... his father's evangelistic association and the charity Samaritan's Purse, has become a controversial figure, and many of the evangelical leaders who serve ...
He enlisted Northwestern's business manager, George Wilson, to head the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Graham soon left Minnesota for his native North Carolina and a worldwide itinerant ministry, but the BGEA remained in Minneapolis and became an empire of evangelical Christianity. The Billy ...
Graham did oppose same-sex marriage in 2012, and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association still adopts a clearly anti-LGBT stance on its website. Beyond that, Graham left 21st-century politics largely to his son. After all, he had already indelibly molded the 20th century, both at home and abroad.
The poll, conducted by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) in January, showed that most of the leaders do not think evangelicals should be identified with any president. President Trump praying with officials, guests (Tweeter/Donald Trump)US President Donald Trump leads administration ...
The Sarawak Evangelical Christian Association (SECA), an alliance of evangelical churches and organisations in Sarawak, is gravely disappointed that the Federal Court decided last Tuesday that persons seeking to officially opt out of their Muslim faith must do so through the Syariah Court system.


 

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