evangelical movements

This work is part of a wider movement seeking to bridge the gap between evolutionary science and religion — whether real or perceived. ... the director of the National Institutes of Health and an evangelical Christian, and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion ...

Yet both men acknowledge that summits and conferences have played a critical role in the evangelical movement. Olsen and Smith joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee on Quick to Listen this week to discuss how conferences can help different generations of the church better hear each ...

To understand the #MeToo evangelical movement, it's worth getting to know Pastor Robertson. First point, know that Robertson grew up in Zachary, La., a Baton Rouge parish with fewer than 9,000 residents. Dad was a chef specializing in jambalaya and gumbo, as well as a man of God. His son listened ...

Several dozen anti-Trump evangelical leaders are meeting today and tomorrow at Wheaton College to discuss how to rescue the movement they contend has become tainted by its association with President Trump. Doug Birdsall of the Lausanne Movement and Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary ...

Many other former evangelicals have similar stories. Among these are Rob Bell, the author of “Love Wins,” the controversial book that questioned common evangelical positions on hell; Brian McLaren, the intellectual force behind “the emerging church,” a once-promising movement of renewal among ...

FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag. It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend. This time of the week two years earlier, there would have been no question. Ms. Pruitt ...

It is just one of several recent allegations of abuse against evangelical church leaders across the nation. Some are part of a movement that has followed closely on the heels of the #MeToo movement, which is intended to show the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. Some say it's a day of ...

Graham played a “tremendous role,” Dolan said, “in the American evangelical movement.” “He was able to have a political impact without being partisan,” Dolan said. Graham counseled 13 consecutive U.S. presidents of both parties and reached millions more through radio, television, and film - playing a ...

Some 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump, according to the Pew Research Center. 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 ...

This posture exposes one of white evangelical Protestantism's sharp edges: The elevation of individual religious experience trumps concern for systemic injustices. This led Graham, at the height of the civil rights movement, to accuse “some extreme Negro leaders [of] going too far and too fast.” That logic ...

Along with Jerry Falwell's son, Jerry Falwell Jr., he helped to elect Trump president by swinging 80 percent of white evangelical voters to his side. And then when ... During World War II era, European churches were hurt badly by the affiliation of Christianity with right-wing political movements. During the ...

It now claims more than one million adherents in 6,000 parishes worldwide, making it one of the "most important in a galaxy of new movements and associations" within Roman ... The movement has also stirred controversy in the Philippines, and drawn criticism from bishops in the United Kingdom and Italy.

Modernity permitted it to become a movement, a “global” movement. Modernity's evangelicalism meant the transportation of evangelical devotion hither and yon. Evangelicalism, then, co-exists with modernity and without modernity it could not have become what it is. (Which isn't to say that evangelicalism is ...

“Billy Graham was seeking fame and respectability and to make white evangelicals respectable,” said Jelks. Graham's connections with the Republican Party would trouble King “and a whole generation of black people, because these are the very parties that were led by the Reagans and the Goldwaters, ...

Polls show evangelicals also share Trump's criticism of Muslims. In a 2017 poll by Pew Research, 75% of white evangelical voters said they worried about Muslim extremism in the world, and 69% worried about it in the United States. Those findings exceeded the views of other American groups by more ...

Editor's note: In 2014, CT reported how a massive survey by the Pew Research Center found that American evangelicals were weathering the “rise of the nones” much better than other Christian groups. Today, as Billy Graham's funeral takes place, an analysis of social science data shows the movement ...