Sentences with phrase «as white evangelical»

Religious «nones,» who essentially act as the white evangelical counterpart in the Democratic party, are also unhappy.

PRRI's 2016 survey found that 43 percent of Americans identify as white and Christian, and only 17 percent identify as white evangelical Protestant.

The PRRI finds that this category now accounts for 26 percent of Americans — the same percentage that identified as white evangelicals until 2006.

Nearly twice as many black Protestants (45 %) as white evangelicals (26 %) said they could sympathize with either both sides (14 % white evangelicals, 19 % black Protestants) or neither side (12 % white evangelicals, 26 % black Protestants) in the marriage services debate.

Leading up to the election, LifeWay Research, which measures evangelicals by belief and includes non-whites, found that evangelicals of color sided with Hillary Clinton (62 %) nearly as strongly as white evangelicals sided with Trump (65 %).

Not exact matches

Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the U.S.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

Paula White, a Prosperity Gospel preacher as well as Chairwoman of President Trump's Evangelical Advisory Committee, wants followers to give God their first fruits.

But I'm just as concerned about white evangelicals who are in bed with Babylon.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

First, the PRRI identifies «white evangelicals» as a subcategory of evangelicals as a whole.

As a whole, white evangelicals still largely oppose same sex - marriage.

On only one issue do white evangelicals think Clinton would basically do just as good a job of addressing as Trump: dealing with race relations.

More white evangelicals (27 %) than black Protestants (18 %) think of themselves in 2016 as a member of a minority because of their religious beliefs.

But left with only Trump or Clinton as options, 93 percent of Republican or Republican - leaning white evangelicals said they will vote for Trump.

And a January Pew Research Center poll found that 44 percent of white evangelical Republicans view Trump as «not too» or «not at all» religious.»

The tensions with Charlotte were a regular topic at the family dinner table, so much so that when I heard Isaiah 1:18 quoted, which was common in my evangelical youth, I would mentally edit it to read: «Though your sin be as Charlotte's it shall be as white as snow.»

The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»

Today he's settled in a place where, while things are not as black and white as they were in the charismatic evangelical church he grew up in, he nevertheless believes that «Jesus really was who he said he was».

An exit poll published after last year's US Presidential election by the Pew Research Center suggested that 81 - per - cent of people identifying as «white, born - again, evangelical Christians» chose Mr Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

After all, he said «he repented», and now, he is just working in the community as politician, and he represents more power for the White Evangelical Church.

Political scientist Ruth Melkonian - Hoover finds that white evangelicals who worship alongside immigrants are far less likely to view immigrants as a threat (19.6 %) than white evangelicals as a whole (50.7 %).

Black Gospel found a limited — and mostly secular — audience among white listeners, but southern white Gospel was routinely panned as vulgar,» «hillbilly» and «western» style music, even by conservative evangelicals in the North.

You're the typical Tea Fartie maniac who would do anything to spew out lies to create fear and hysteria, while you keep trying to create your white - only Evangelical theocracy in the Redneck belt with Rick Santorum as your «supreme leader.»

Should I, as a Creole, mixed - race, African American, Evangelical leader sit quietly by, not saying a word about what has transpired in Ferguson and many other cities so that your white daughter would not feel compelled to speak out and the comfort of your reality would remain.

More than half of self - identified Tea Party members say America is a Christian nation, while just over four out of 10 white evangelicals believe that - the same as the proportion of the general population that says so.

CT has previously reported on where John Piper and other evangelicals stand on #BlackLivesMatter, as well as how black and white Christians increasingly think differently about race.

The issue of race remains contentious in our nation and in our neighborhoods, and many white evangelicals remain confused as to how they should respond.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

In recent decades, white evangelicals — and yes, that's a statistically identifiable voting bloc and I'm using it as such in this article — have been among the most consistent supporters of the Republican Party.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

So, as we look at evangelicals by belief, not just «white evangelicals» (who are overwhelmingly for Donald Trump), we find a very different story.

Now, that's not to say that White Evangelicals, often referred to as just «Evangelicals», did not propel the Trump candidacy.

About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.

It includes evangelical leaders Franklin Graham and Samuel Rodriguez, as well as spiritual advisor Paula White, the Florida televangelist credited with his rumored recent Christian conversion, and a Detroit prosperity preacher, Wayne T. Jackson.

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

When asked what should be Trump's first priority as president, white evangelical voters most often picked health care (31 %), immigration (13 %), the economy (11 %), and unemployment (10 %).

White evangelicals (83 %) are the most likely of all to want a candidate that shares their faith, followed by black Protestants (72 %), two - thirds of whom identify as evangelicals according to Pew.

If you don't conform to a suburban, white, middle class lifestyle, you aren't going to fit in as easily in the evangelical church.

Major survey organizations such as Pew Research Center, Gallup, and Public Religion Research Institute often split non-Catholic Christians into the historical categories of black Protestants, mainline Protestants, and white evangelicals.

The letter was signed by prominent evangelical figures such as Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Paula White, President Donald Trump's spiritual adviser and a Florida pastor.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.&raquAs a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.&raquas the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Now, as I said, not all White Evangelical Protestants are active members of the Religious Right.

Contrary to that image, White Evangelical Protestants are mostly in the demographic mainstream, with only somewhat less formal education and a slightly larger proportion of poor people than the population as a whole.

The Pew Research Center has found that self - identified white evangelicals were twice as likely as Americans overall to support the policy (76 % vs. 38 %), which temporarily halts the refugee program and restricts entry from several Muslim - majority countries.

Public polling now shows that white Evangelical Christians now regard personal character as less relevant for public leadership.

As Christianity Today notes, there was one large piece of irony in the research: A higher percentage of white evangelicals agreed with this question than American Muslims: «It is often or sometimes justified to target and kill civilians in order to further a political, social, or religious cause.»

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

Concerned about the future of Obamacare, both white evangelicals and Americans overall ranked heath care as the No. 1 policy priority in last year's election.