Leaders of the World Evangelical Alliance, Efraim Tendero (right), and World Council of Churches, Olaf Tveit (left), in front of Orthodox cathedral in Tirana.
Not exact matches
«Muslim majority nations are now making statements globally and nationally to push back on extremism, and you will see more
of it,» the
evangelical interfaith
leader told CT. «This is sending signals to their citizens and the
world that the tide is turning.»
The Sunday following Trump's order,
leaders of eight
evangelical organizations involved with the Evangelical Immigration Table released a letter to the president and vice president, saying, «While the US has... received only a fraction of 1 percent of the world's refugees annually, we believe the refugee resettlement program provides a lifeline to these uniquely vulnerable individuals and a vital opportunity for our churc
evangelical organizations involved with the
Evangelical Immigration Table released a letter to the president and vice president, saying, «While the US has... received only a fraction of 1 percent of the world's refugees annually, we believe the refugee resettlement program provides a lifeline to these uniquely vulnerable individuals and a vital opportunity for our churc
Evangelical Immigration Table released a letter to the president and vice president, saying, «While the US has... received only a fraction
of 1 percent
of the
world's refugees annually, we believe the refugee resettlement program provides a lifeline to these uniquely vulnerable individuals and a vital opportunity for our churches.»
World Watch Monitor compiled the worried reactions
of Russian
evangelical leaders and concerned observers.
The response to
World Vision revealed some major fault lines in the Church, and many
of us who grew up
evangelical interpreted all the gleeful «farewelling» from
evangelical leaders as our final kick out the door.
The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx
of non «SBC
evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing
of the name
of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile
of non «Baptist
leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation
of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side
of the culture wars conflict; new patterns
of cooperation between SBC mission boards and
evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association
of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and
World Vision.
«I am a Texan, an
evangelical, and a Baptist,» the NorthWood Church
leader told the crowd
of more than 250 leading Muslim clerics from around the
world.
In their early days, when the Emergent Church was vying with the new Calvinism for pole position in the American
evangelical world, they launched regular, and often very thorough, critiques
of the Emergent
leaders.
Moreover, some
evangelical groups have the audacity, in the words
of the religious left's Crisis News, to criticize «prophetic church
leaders such as Desmond Tutu, Allan Boesak, and Frank Chikane, as well as the
World Council
of Churches.»
While many mainline and some
evangelical leaders criticized the validity
of this interpretation
of the Christian faith, the paid - time broadcasters intuited accurately that television had become the «real
world» for millions
of people, one to which the Christian faith must be communicated in terms common to that
world.
Meanwhile, an ongoing
World magazine survey
of more than 100
evangelical leaders has consistently found Rubio at the top over the past eight months, including a 49 percent approval rate in February.
ad is signed by dozens
of Christian
leaders, including
evangelicals like David Beckman, president
of the charity Bread for the
World, and author Brian McLaren.
«This thing» to which he refers began in the 1990s when a group
of young
evangelical leaders initiated a conversation (they still prefer to call it a «conversation» rather than a movement») about renewing the church for mission in a postmodern
world.
Seven months beforehand, about 19 percent
of this pool
of evangelical leaders told
World that they would vote for Rubio, while 15 percent picked Bush and 14 percent chose Cruz.
Those are among the findings
of a groundbreaking survey
of more than 2,000
evangelical leaders from around the
world, which the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released Wednesday
When you read the narrative, what Balmer means by Religious Right is really a coalition
of leaders and organizations within the
evangelical world who have sought to organize
evangelical voters along a particular set
of issues.
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.»
Signatories include
leaders from humanitarian aid groups including
World Vision USA,
World Relief, Compassion International, Living Water International, Food for the Hungry, as well as denominational
leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention, Assemblies
of God, Wesleyan Church, Church
of Nazarene, the Anglican Church in North America, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the National Association
of Evangelicals.
In fact, many non Christains live a higher moral code than the sons
of world renowned
evangelical leaders.
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