Sentences with phrase «many evangelical colleges»

Moody Bible Institute, one of the oldest and most respected evangelical colleges in America — and alma mater of Left Behind author and Nicolas Cage - inspirer Jerry Jenkins — has lifted their long - standing ban on faculty drinking.

Instead I studied English literature, writing, and Bible at a conservative evangelical college that taught me from Day 1 that feminism is an anti-Christian worldview to be distrusted and categorically rejected.

Evangelical colleges likely face generational differences in attitudes toward sexuality as younger evangelicals develop friendships with people who are gay, says David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, a Christian market research firm.

God, the actual inspiration behind the private evangelical college in Chicago's suburbs, announced long ago that he would come to this world as a human being to express his support for the human race.

Even though they are still banned from consuming beer while students, many recent graduates of evangelical colleges are starting to make an impact in the craft beer industry.

As I have celebrated the leadership of early evangelical women, while speaking at evangelical colleges, not everyone has been terribly pleased.

So, for example, after leaving Wheaton College (an Evangelical college), I attended a synagogue (Reformed) for a year and studied Hebrew.

Attorneys have filed a total of six lawsuits on behalf of evangelical colleges against the mandate: Biola and Grace join Wheaton College, Geneva College, Colorado Christian University, and Louisiana College.

«If you try to use [legislation] to force a private [school] to do something, that could come back to our evangelical colleges and seminaries,» said Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) national coordinator Rod Mays.

In addition to new evangelical colleges and seminaries, the decade of the «70s has seen the creation of many new Christian primary and secondary schools.

Sinkinson now teaches within an evangelical college setting.

Another study sampled students at nine evangelical colleges in an attempt to determine how effective these institutions were in providing plausibility structures for evangelical beliefs.

Why are they so often found behind pulpits and in administrative positions at these little evangelical colleges sharing with young people the fruits of their knowledge of good and evil?

What respectable gay people do pales in comparison to recreational abortion practiced by young Christian girls at evangelical colleges.

Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.

I have even visited an evangelical college.

Many evangelical colleges and universities, for example, are serious places with accomplished faculty.

So did Wellesley College, founded as an evangelical college in the 1870s by friends of Dwight L. Moody.

The more than a hundred evangelical colleges are more strongly Protestant.

True, some of them are even educated, yet «evangelical colleges are just beginning to shake off this tradition, but can not yet be deemed cosmopolitan.»

A recent student demonstration over a Wheaton College chapel speaker's testimony on her religious and sexual conversion is the latest marker in the long - running debate over the way evangelical colleges approach sexual identity.

The Wheaton College student newspaper, The Record, reports today that the influential evangelical college's president, provost, and chaplain have removed their names from a letter to Muslim leaders that has attracted criticism in some quarters.

The notion that faith and learning can coexist has spread to many evangelical colleges in the past few decades and could explain the growing popularity of Christian schooling (see Figure 2).

Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University, an evangelical college in Nashville, reports that students have responded with enthusiasm towards the notion of including climate concerns in the conservative political agenda.

In partnership with renowned executive search firm CarterBaldwin — whose legacy of success with evangelical colleges and universities is well - known — the Board of Governors anticipates a wide - ranging and comprehensive search for the man or woman who can build on the trust and vision that marks President Kuhn's tenure.

Not exact matches

It has gained the support of Girlguiding UK, Mumsnet, the Evangelical Alliance and the Royal College of Midwives.

I saw the same glazed look of absolutism, certitude, and belligerence that I noted years earlier in the eyes of the evangelicals I went to Bible college with.

Dr. Henry, an associate professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the author of Politics for Evangelicals.

The communal value of beer also appeals to Scott Sullivan, an alumnus of evangelical Calvin College who owns the Greenbush Brewing Company in Sawyer, Michigan.

The sad reality is that anti-Western, anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Israeli biases infuse the academic culture of many evangelical Christian college campuses.

I had a classmate at an evangelical Christian college who repeatedly defined faith as «stepping out of airplanes, knowing that God will catch you.»

Michael Lindsay, president of Gordon College in Massachusetts, said that homosexuality is just one of a basket of issues that evangelical schools are dealing with now for the first time.

OneWheaton, a group unaffiliated with the college, wants to offer an alternative view on homosexuality from that of the evangelical school.

About 200 LGBT and straight alumni from California's evangelical Westmont College co-signed a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced «doubt, loneliness and fear due to the college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.College co-signed a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced «doubt, loneliness and fear due to the college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.»

He founded FOCUS after his own experience: brought up in a Catholic family, he lost his faith in his teenage years — and rediscovered it through Evangelical students at college, who helped him to encounter Christ in the Scriptures.

More than 100 evangelical leaders gathered today at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) at Wheaton College to discuss how American Christians can best respond to the current refugee crisis.

What I am hearing from you is describing Wheaton College as a «beacon» and «one of the best evangelical and protestant institutions in the world» and you implication is that David is a «fellow Christian» that is slandering the institution.

«As they participate in various causes, it is essential that they engage in and speak in such a way that faithfully represent the college's evangelical Statement of Faith.

A set of vigorous evangelical theological colleges exist, with theological leaders such as Anthony Thiselton, Jeremy Begbie, Elaine Storkey, Colin Buchanan, Christopher Cocksworth and Tina Baxter.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

Ricky, As I graduated from conservative, evangelical Bible college and Seminary, I am familiar with the answers you provided.

Warren S Brown is a professor of psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary (a multi-denominational evangelical theological college in the US) and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute.

I've been speaking at many small colleges that have historical ties to the oldest mainline denominations in the U.S. I have been noticing something interesting: a terrific hunger for a deeper spirituality on the part of many young people who come from evangelical backgrounds like mine and also like me are looking for something outside of the right wing conservatism they come from.

The college's suit in the D.C. District Court will be one of the more high - profile actions by an evangelical institution.

A surprising number of evangelicals disagree, at least for campus ministries at public colleges.

I was treasurer of my college evangelical - fellowship group.

I went to an evangelical Christian college (Wheaton) and there were definitely hipsters all over the place.

Austin Channing Brown is one of my very favorite bloggers, whose journey as an evangelical racial reconciler began in college with an experience called Sankofa — a three - day bus trip exploring Civil Rights sites throughout the South.

A few weeks ago, almost 16,000 college students gathered for Urbana, an evangelical conference promoting cross-cultural missions.

In a Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals on the day after his election, the Holy Father raised cautions about clerical ambition» a yellow warning flag that reflected the concerns he had expressed during the papal interregnum about «spiritual worldliness» corrupting the Church, and an unmistakable call to a more energetically evangelical exercise of the priesthood and the episcopate.