Sentences with phrase «american evangelical community»

«If you are an Evangelical Christian, the fastest growing demographic in the American Evangelical community is embedded in the Hispanic church,» said Rodriguez, leader of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference.

The blog is ABOUT belied in the modern world and is of great interest to those who consider the American evangelical community and certain other religious sects the source of some serious modern problems.

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Earlier this month, The Atlantic listed the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, televangelist Tim Bakker, and evangelical film critic Ted Baehr among Putin's evangelical supporters, particularly for his restrictions on Russia's LGBT community.

Do you think the evangelical community has a narrow view of what «American» is?

I worry that the evangelical community has a narrow understanding of what an «American» is.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

What I hope does not happen is a further fragmentation of the evangelical community as a result of its new minority position in American politics.

Too often, in that section of the evangelical community which stems from American revivalism and fundamentalism, discussion of social ethics passes over this foundational matter altogether, discussing instead only specific procedures.

This overt evangelical support for Israel aligns a branch of American Protestantism that traditionally has frowned upon religious involvement in political matters with the traditionally liberal U.S. Jewish community.

National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy Wilson, head of the and Metropolitan Community Church - the nation's largest denomination expressly serving LGBT Americans - are among the appointees to the panel, which was launched by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Similarly, when a group of Christians in the Asian American community recently released a letter detailing some of their concerns about common stereotypes and prejudices within the evangelical community, I saw many on social media critique this action as «divisive» and «harmful to Christian unity.»

In practice, this means that Americans generally, and especially the increasingly influential evangelical community, must develop a better sense of America's place in the world.