Sentences with phrase «by conservative evangelical»

It's interesting to me that American Catholics tend not to have the same sort of antagonistic relationship with science because the pope has an honest - to - goodness observatory with award - winning scientists doing real research; because at least right now, fundamentalism is not the overriding or abiding ideology in the Catholic Church — although there are a wing of Catholic fundamentalists in the U.S. right now that are influenced by their conservative evangelical Protestant brothers and sisters.

The August prayer event, called «The Response,» was financed by the conservative evangelical American Family Association and was intended to acknowledge that, in Perry's words, «America is in crisis.»

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.

First, our recent dive into parenthood has made me exceedingly glad we ditched the strict gender roles promoted by conservative evangelical culture in favor of a relationship characterized by mutuality and flexibility.

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.

It's perhaps the best illustration I've seen of how many unnecessary and potentially dangerous positions have been tacked on to Christianity by conservative evangelicals.

I hope that relating in this larger community will lead us to recover the wholeheartedness that has been better embodied by conservative evangelicals.

One of the most startling developments in the culture war is the apparent takeover of the Republican Party by conservative evangelicals who claim that the U.S. is a Christian nation, uniquely called and blessed by God.

The other reason for schism was McIntyre's insistence on dispensationalist premillennialism, a distinctive form of prophetic teaching widely but not universally held by conservative evangelicals.

Not exact matches

On a personal level, Pence and his wife, Karen, who are both devout evangelical Christians who have advocated for conservative «family values» for decades, were shocked and disturbed by the video.

Unfortunately, we are run over by the most radical group of conservatives — Tea Party - Evangelicals.

Conservatives often exaggerate what a techno - wasteland America is by denying that evangelicals and Pentecostals are really Christian.

Steve, your response is typical conservative evangelical rhetoric... which is really just personal prejudice backed by shallow evangelical theology.

This is an interesting conservative variation on a theme often voiced by liberal observers of evangelical politics.

Conservative evangelicals are driven by their fundamentalist convictions about the absolute truth of their beliefs.

And by the way, socially conservative, evangelical Christians should spend some time re-reading the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament.

Formed by those who'd left the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, a mainline body, and who weren't quite so conservative as to join the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the NALC recently held its third annual convention, and a good time was had by all.

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

I myself am a survivor of multiple incidents of spiritual abuse by leaders in a range of evangelical, moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches and parachurch settings over the past 40 years.

By almost every standard for measuring such things the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America stands on the conservative side of mainline Protestantism.

(CNN)- Franklin Graham, one of the country's most prominent evangelicals, says the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service included two of his ministries.

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

Nearly half of evangelical voters go for one guy — the most rabid conservative in the bunch — despite the fact that he is highly unelectable by every reasonable measure.

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

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.

And Podhoretz is not alone: I know from personal experience that many Jewish neocons, however bemused they may be by styles of evangelical piety» a bemusement, I might add, shared by a number of non «evangelical Christians» still have no problem counting Christian conservatives as staunch cultural and political allies.

I also expected evangelical conservatives to be theological dinosaurs, mired in precritical questions long ago settled and forgotten by the rest of us.

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

And he concludes: «This experience taught me, a conservative evangelical, that when Christian witness is done in a spirit of vulnerability, service, and openness to others, it is evangelism... Proselytism, in contrast, is motivated by a spirit of churchly pride which goes against the grain of the Gospel.

Consequently, evangelicals suspected the Revised Standard Version as a liberal Bible, and eventually countered with the New International Version, a translation produced by conservative scholars.

A pulling away on the left by large segments of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics of a number of church bodies.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)-- Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

Chalke has strayed from safe evangelical territory over the years, upsetting conservatives by publicising his views on homosexuality, biblical interpretation, and the atonement.

I have discovered that the conservative evangelical church's viewpoint in the 1950's did not necessarily represent the viewpoint of other churches, nor the viewpoint held by the church over the previous two millennia.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

Conservative evangelicals are no longer creeped out by Catholics, but they are sometimes by Mormons.

The task of correlating the theological and cultural / philosophical agendas must be characterized by patience and tentativeness — qualities which have not always been highly prized among conservative evangelicals.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

And yet, as the years went by, I soon learned that to be a woman in the conservative evangelical subculture is to never quite understand your place in this world.

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post / protestant, liberal / conservative, mystical / poetic, biblical, charismatic / contemplative,... anabaptist / anglican, metho (emergentYS) by Brian McLaren — Brian McLaren has, obviously, been influential in my life through his work and writings.

But many evangelicals wound up feeling betrayed by Carter's liberalism, and Reagan's courtship of first - generation Christian right leaders, as well as his conservative rhetoric on issues like abortion, sent hordes of evangelicals to the GOP.

The conservative turn in politics over the last decade is a long - delayed response, now led in significant part by evangelicals, the heirs of the fundamentalists who went into cultural exile almost a century ago.

«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.

A lengthy article by Whitehead and former congressman John Conlan in the Texas Tech Law Review in 1978 provided a working definition of secular humanism which has been recycled in various forms and now is widely accepted among conservative evangelicals.

But there was a time when many evangelical and conservative Christian men spoke loudly and clearly against sexual exploitation by a political leader.