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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...
Patheos (blog)
March 27, 2018
Evangelical Christianity and pro-corporate Republican politics have been intertwined since at least the 1920s, after all. To what extent are evangelicals' beliefs shaped by their adherence to “small government” political conservatism? But there's another issue at play here—consider the belief that wealthÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
March 12, 2018
That's worth remembering long after this administration is out of power. Evangelical Christians had the chance to stand up for what's right, and they failed. Again. As usual. One problem with Gerson's piece is that he suggests a handful of evangelical leaders who aren't on the Trump train, and who provide aÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
March 10, 2018
As Bill Maher rightly pointed out last night, one of the only good things Donald Trump has done in the past year is turn evangelical Christianity into a .... 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.
Sight Magazine
March 7, 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, she was welcomed with applause at a United Nations-backed climate summit in the capital ofÃâà...
Forward
March 7, 2018
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 in Israel started when I first watched the “Raid on Entebbe” in the late 1970's. I was amazed at the real-life daring and inventiveness of that audaciousÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2018
President Trump, with First Lady Melania Trump and Franklin Graham, bows his head in prayer during a ceremony honoring the late Rev. Billy Graham at the U.S. Capitol building on Feb. 28. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press). To the editor: The juxtaposition of the March 1 op-ed articles "Holy crap: TheÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 6, 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, she was welcomed with applause at a United Nations-backed climate summit in the capital ofÃâà...
Kansas City Star (blog)
March 3, 2018
Last August, President Donald Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and looked me straight in the eyes. With a look of reflection and purposefulness, he discussed his upbringing and fondly recalled a vivid childhood memory from the 1950s: watching Billy Graham sermons on televisionÃâà...
VICE
March 2, 2018
That's why I know white evangelical Christians aren't the stereotypes they resemble in too many stories and movies. They disagree with gay marriage and have qualms about the acceptance of transgender people not because of blind hatred, but because these are challenges to what they believe the BibleÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
March 2, 2018
The Rev. Billy Graham, the pastor and evangelical leader who died last week and is being laid to rest in Charlotte on Friday, built relationships across party lines, illustrated by the praise Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump delivered after his death. But it likely will beÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
February 28, 2018
Billy Graham, I find it hard to recognize the evangelical Christianity I grew up with so many years ago. Randall Balmer provides some very specific reasons why Graham was different. He explains why Graham did not fall victim to the scandals of so many other well-known televangelists and itinerantÃâà...
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...
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...
LGBTQ Nation
December 31, 1999
Pastor Joshua Nink, right, prays for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as his wife, Melania, watches after a Sunday service at First Christian Church, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in January 2016. Jae C. Hong/AP. Donald Trump would be nowhere without his evangelical supporters. They voted forÃâà...
