As Novak wrestles with the complexity involved even in defining social justice,
evangelical leaders think they can handle the big issues of the day in a way that helps the church in trite servings of 140 characters or less.
Not exact matches
It sounds rather
evangelical, though Avakian is, as you may have guessed, a leftist, and in fact the
leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party» which seems, if we understand Revolution, the broadsheet on whose back page that quote appears, to
think Mao too conservative.
I
think many
evangelicals call him a cult
leader because he denounces their prosperity cults.
(CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham clarified his
thoughts on President Barack Obama's Christian faith Wednesday, one day after the
evangelical leader took heat over making comments about the president's ties to Islam.
CNN: Graham clarifies remarks on Obama's faith The Rev. Franklin Graham clarified his
thoughts on President Barack Obama's Christian faith Wednesday, one day after the
evangelical leader took heat over making comments about the president's ties to Islam.
In the midst of this we had an outlandish
thought: What if we could get
Evangelical leaders in a room to consider how the church should respond to the refugee crisis?
She also seems to go out of her way to pick on
evangelical leaders, which is too bad because I really
think evangelicals need to hear what she has to say, especially on page 10: «I'm tired of watching those who are supposed to care about the Bible reduce its stories and its teachings to slogans.
«After 30 years of the so - called conservative
leaders who have been elected by
evangelicals, none of them
thought to advocate for the repeal of the Johnson amendment, giving
evangelical leaders political free speech,» Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University president and early Trump endorser, toldTime magazine.
I
think all
Evangelical leaders should imbibe that motto.
Some ugly and foolish
thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean
leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of
Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious
leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»
The reformation for which David calls is thus not one which requires a mere shift in doctrinal belief, something with which
Evangelical leaders seem too often too easily satisfied; it also involves the transformation of a whole form of church life, one which he sees as starting in what happens in gathered worship on a Sunday and leads to a reorientation of
thinking and living throughout the week.
The vote followed opposition from teacher organizations, civil rights groups, women's rights activists, students, centrist
think tanks, reform
leaders,
evangelical Christians, special education advocates.