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SFGate
March 20, 2018
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 disdainÃÂ ...
NPR
March 14, 2018
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:ÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
March 13, 2018
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.
New York Magazine
March 12, 2018
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 behaviorÃÂ ...
Lehigh Valley Business
March 12, 2018
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 SeminaryÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
March 11, 2018
“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 higherÃÂ ...
Vox
March 5, 2018
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 theirÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
March 1, 2018
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.
New York Times
February 27, 2018
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.
The Atlantic
February 21, 2018
“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 serveÃÂ ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
February 21, 2018
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 BillyÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
February 21, 2018
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.
ChristianToday
December 31, 1999
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 administrationÃÂ ...
Malaysian Christian News
December 31, 1999
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.
Omaha World-Herald
February 6, 2018
24 commentary by Michael Gerson, “Evangelicals look the other way,” the idea that Donald Trump “has made profanity an unavoidable part of our ... in the moral deregulation of our political life” by association reveals a lack of understanding of both the evangelical and political landscapes in this country.
Newsweek
January 29, 2018
"Yes, evangelicals, conservatives, they gave him a mulligan,” Perkins told CNN last week. “They let him have a do-over. They said we'll start afresh with you and we'll give you a second chance." Franklin Graham, who heads up his father's Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has used some of Trump andÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
January 26, 2018
Prominent evangelicals have been called hypocrites for sticking with Trump despite credible new allegations that he had an extramarital affair with a porn star in 2006 — only ... Billy Graham and current president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, told MSNBC host Alex Witt in an interview Jan.
Alabama Baptist
January 25, 2018
Evangelical leaders in Bolivia urged the government to work toward solutions without the use of violence, and the National Association of Evangelicals in Bolivia said it will “maintain the emergency alert of the evangelical people in Bolivia, and as a consequence, events, gatherings, prayer meetings andÃÂ ...
ChristianityToday.com
January 25, 2018
I readily understand recent concern about the label “evangelical” and why some people are uncomfortable with it, given some of its cultural associations. In fact, a few ... I knew too many evangelicals who seemed oblivious to the needs of the homeless, abused women, and racial injustices. I saw firsthandÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
January 24, 2018
Political parties, congressmen, and even the Brazilian Bar Association, have filed a total of 30 requests to have him removed from his position as federal deputy for the city of Rio de Janeiro, a position he's occupied for nearly three decades, for actions that broke congressional decorum, like sending deathÃÂ ...
OneNewsNow
January 24, 2018
illegal border crossing A member of President Donald Trump's evangelical council raised eyebrows when he praised House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her immigration views but a fellow council member simply says there is room to disagree. Trump advisor Dr. Samuel Rodriguez of the AssociationÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 24, 2018
President Donald Trump continues to receive evangelical support even after his alleged 2006 affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels because he is a “changed person,” one leader of the religion said. “All of us are sinners,” Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,ÃÂ ...
CNN
January 24, 2018
... Donald Trump is a "changed person" amid recent reports of an alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, said the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. ... Lemon questioned why "evangelicals were so willing to call out, say Bill Clinton's behavior but not President Trump's?".
Patheos (blog)
January 23, 2018
But I knew there was such a wider evangelical world because my uncle was president of our little Pentecostal denomination and on the national board of the National Association of Evangelicals. We talked about that many times. Without any encouragement from him I decided, with some help from myÃÂ ...
Salon
January 23, 2018
Evangelical Christians, President Donald Trump's most devout base, have been able to easily turn the other cheek when the president exerts his ... Franklin Graham, the CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, have chosen not to believe Trump engaged in an affair while married to his third wifeÃÂ ...
Evangelical Focus
January 15, 2018
The new Penal Code of Bolivia could become a form of “state abuse” against Christians, the National Association of Evangelicals in Bolivia (ANDEB) has ... “The legislator forgets that the evangelical Christian churches in Bolivia are religious organisations recognised by the Bolivian state, and, therefore,ÃÂ ...
ChristianityToday.com
December 30, 2017
While the government asserts that there is religious liberty, the Evangelical Alliance of Turkey (Association of Protestant Churches) is in a nonstop battle to win fairness and religious liberty in the courts. General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, Umut Sahin, spends his time resisting accusations, localÃÂ ...
Houston Chronicle
December 30, 2017
... religion plays in the political sphere," said Manya Brachear Pashman, president of Religion News Association, the organization that conducted the poll. "But after the 2016 election, it became clear to reporters and editors, regardless of their specialty, there was a lot at stake for white evangelical Christians.
Nyasa Times
December 29, 2017
“As Evangelical Association of Malawi, through Community Action for the Transformation of Children's Health Project which is funded by Norwegian Church Aid, we promote inclusive early childhood development hence our focus at children with disabilities. “Through this initiative, we want to empower theseÃÂ ...
NPR
December 29, 2017
Some prominent evangelical leaders, including Peter Wehner, who served in the George W. Bush administration, and the writer Amy Julia Becker, have publicly disowned the evangelical label in protest over its recent political associations, while others such as David French have suggested that it is time toÃÂ ...
PJ Media
December 28, 2017
Brown also asked Armfield about Trump supporter Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association (BGEA) and president of the charity Samaritan's Purse. "I think my uncle leads an incredible humanitarian ministry that's been on the front lines before a lot of ministries have beenÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
December 27, 2017
Ted Haggard, the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals and founder and pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who was caught up in a sex and drugs scandal? Those scandalous incidents, pale in comparison to today's evangelical leaders whose unbridled support forÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 15, 2017
Emmett Price, a professor who focuses on African-American studies at the prominent evangelical seminary Gordon-Conwell in Massachusetts, said he worries that white Christians who are abandoning the term are only looking to avoid the negative associations, not to reform their communities. If they'reÃÂ ...
ChristianityToday.com
December 31, 1999
Many such documents were available to us, for few evangelical organizations and associations have failed to produce at least one. … They embody a shared interpretation of the Bible, a shared understanding of the gospel, and a shared view of the church and its mission, and when on occasion they differÃÂ ...
Nyasa Times
December 31, 1999
The Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) Health Commission says Malawi needs to review its strategies to arrest increasing cases of teenage pregnancies that have defied efforts and interventions to reverse the situation. Teenage Pregnancy: Depressing statistics. EAM Health Commission nationalÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
December 1, 2017
In August, Palmer, 53, and Kay Overlund, 34, founded the Nashville chapter of the American Humanist Association. The organization promotes humanism, a perspective that uses science and reason to explain the world and dignity and compassion as the basis for how to treat other humans. Palmer thinks ...
Patheos (blog)
November 30, 2017
Not only do the earliest documents of the National Association of Evangelicals indicate a desire to construct a “conservative” alternative to the liberal Protestant establishment, but Billy Graham really became a national figure once he started at his 1949 Los Angeles crusade (REALLY!!!) to preach against ...
Religion News Service
November 29, 2017
First, since fundamentalists lost their struggle to recapture the culture in the 1920s, and especially since the burgeoning of American wealth in the 1960s, evangelicals have developed a huge range of special purpose groups. Bewildering in their variety, from Bible clubs to motorcyclist associations, these ...
Sunbury Daily Item
November 28, 2017
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ChristianityToday.com
November 28, 2017
Instead, Christian leaders—such as those at the National Association of Evangelicals—are pushing for an expanded charitable tax benefit. One Republican senator—James Lankford, a Baptist from Oklahoma—agrees with them. He proposed a universal charitable deduction on top of the standard deduction. “All Americans ...
Christianheadlines.com (blog)
November 28, 2017
However, the teachings about women, sexuality and relationships in broader evangelical culture have contributed to the normalization of courtship culture. Furthermore, the continued association of evangelical and religious right leadership with men who defend child marriage enables those abuses to ...
ThinkProgress
November 22, 2017
It remains to be seen whether Alabama evangelicals will be swayed by the outcry among conservative Christians. The Association of Religion Data Archives reports that Alabama has the highest evangelical Protestant adherence rate out of all 50 states — clocking in at 420 evangelicals per 1,000 people.
NBCNews.com
November 19, 2017
And 42 percent of the state identifies as evangelical Christian, according to data from the Association of Religion Data Archives. That's the ...
Patheos (blog)
November 18, 2017
Why, despite their lack of evidence, do evangelicals continue to weave ... Professor Jonathan Jong conducted an implicit association test in ...
The Economist (blog)
November 17, 2017
... a prominent evangelical and president of Hobby Lobby, a chain of ... the museum's purpose in a speech to the National Bible Association.
Kokomo Perspective
November 12, 2017
Memorial contributions may be given to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association in her honor. You may leave a message of condolence to her ...
New York Times
November 12, 2017
“They accept the Second Amendment,” said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals when the survey results were ...
ChristianityToday.com
November 9, 2017
Earlier research by PRRI showed that evangelicals were the only religious ... to a survey released by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) in August. ... “Evangelical leaders have nuanced views on guns,” said NAEÂ ...
The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer
November 7, 2017
In August, representatives of the St. Kitts Christian Council, the St. Kitts Evangelical Association and the Nevis Evangelical Association met with ...
Christian Post
November 7, 2017
Although many think of white social conservatives when they hear the term "evangelicals," the National Association of Evangelicals and ...
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