Sentences with phrase «american evangelical minister»
Scott Lively is an obsessively anti-gay American evangelical minister.
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American Evangelicals might have gone to Uganda to campaign for anti-gay legislation, but so did other powerful figures on the gay lobby side, including President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, threatening African governments with the withdrawal of aid if they didn't conform to the new Western normal.
Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is an assistant research professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research, an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the editor of the American theological quarterly Lutheran Forum.
The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.
In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.