Sentences with phrase «by evangelicals who»

When I left evangelicalism for a Mainline church, I was teased by some evangelicals who informed me I'd picked the losing team.

The picture, directed and co-written by Rick Alverson, whose «New Jerusalem» is about a man returning from Afghanistan who is befriended by an evangelical who promises to redeem his fragile persona, is likewise about a fellow with a similar existential problem.

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.

Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

The story of King David, a sinner who remained beloved by God and favored by his people, has been a favorite of evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump, even during the Republican primaries.

These were zealous, energetic, Evangelical Protestants, men and women who were motivated almost entirely by their religious commitments.

I beleive that Liberal Socialists who feel threatened by Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists fear their political power so much, that even President Obama is a blind naive proponent of tollerance to Islamic Shariah Law as he funded the Great Iman of NYC.

But evangelical has been used now by the Evangelicals, who are not really the same thing, being mostly Bapti - costal.

«Following the pounding of Todd Akin by the GOP kings and lieutenants in the last 36 hours, I've come to the conclusion that the real issue is the soul of America,» wrote David Lane, an evangelical activist who's influential in the Republican Party, in an e-mail to fellow activists Thursday morning.

I describe myself as a «former evangelical» for many reasons, not the least of which is I have an adult gay son who is not welcomed in lots of churches (neither is he welcomed by Muslims or those who practice B'hai Faith).

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

Christianity Today: Evangelical Leaders Split Over Violence Against Women Act The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorized by Congress Wednesday removes protections for immigrant women who are victims of violence.

Rowe, a Duke Divinity School professor of New Testament who is not a Catholic, thus makes an important contribution to the evangelical Catholicism of the future by reinforcing the biblical foundations of the new evangelization.

At the same time, I think it plausible that evangelicals are encountered by the living God, and are encountered more frequently than many of those who worship in the ways that Smith outlines.

Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

Like these evangelicals, who point to genuine hardships suffered by Palestinians under occupation, those church activists cited often genuine injustices by the U.S. and its allies in their struggle against the Soviet Bloc.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

Those of us who believe that what is true for me (what I experience as good for my soul) may not be true for you are so far off base from the evangelical camps that we are reviled and despised by them.

The head of megachurch First Baptist Dallas, who is also a member of President Trump's evangelical advisory board, criticised a «crusade by secularists to remove any acknowledgment» of God in the country's schools.

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

More than ever, evangelical scholars should not abandon the identity as hopelessly marred by Trumpism, but, in the words of an evangelical theologian who did this well, revision evangelicalism and renew the center.

Evangelicals who speak of «overseas mission» or «world mission» mean by these terms exactly the same thing they used to mean by «foreign missions» — spreading the gospel to the unreached.

For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor The Story of Christianity, Volumes I & II by Justo Gonzalez Take This Bread by Sara Miles Remember Who You Are by Will Wilimon The Sacred Meal by Nora Gallagher Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail by Robert Weber

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

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.

«While there are small marginal groups within evangelical Christianity who are often quoted in the press in opposition to climate change action, almost all major global evangelical bodies including the Lausanne Movement have declared their commitment to care for God's creation and to serve the poor affected by climate change impacts.»

About 40 % of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 are likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 24 % of evangelicals who are older than 30, according to the 2007 religious landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

At the time you wrote this blog, you were in the employ of the Grace Evangelical Society headed by who?

In another cry of financial justice when one of the old guard who writes so eloquently about justice and criticizes evangelicals who do not tip was, by a twist of fate, in my cab.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

Wheaton administrators spent several months preparing for a 2006 visit from Soulforce, a group aiming to change religious leaders» minds on gay issues that was co-founded by Mel White, who was a ghost writer for some evangelical leaders, including Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

But too often they direct their attack not at this great weakness of the church but at those who do have fervent beliefs leading to commitment and action, when these beliefs differ from the one's held by evangelicals.

Neo-fundamentalists thus respond to the challenges of a postmodern culture by narrowing the boundaries of what they consider genuinely evangelical and orthodox Christianity, and rejecting those who maintain a more open stance.»

Reed's opinion that there is no evangelical vote and the far right are complex thinkers who are not influenced by political catch phrases is downright laughable.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

Unless, it appears, that includes a university - related club that represents the beliefs of evangelicals, who make up (measuring by belief) more than a third of the U.S. population.

My goal is to have a wide variety of contributors — from Evangelical Christians to Atheists to those who may have been burned by the church.

Just 31 percent said they approve of raising the refugee cap, much lower than the 58 percent of black Protestants (two - thirds of whom identify as evangelicals) and 51 percent of overall Americans who approved, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.

If it interests you, Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist who is despised by Evangelicals and Orthodox Jews because of his so - called «revisionist» archaeology.

It was evangelicals who first called me a Christian, evangelicals who first told me I was beloved by God.

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.

Whether you agree or disagree with the evangelicals» conclusions or the validility of their premises (I am sure that there are people who either completely agree or vehemently disagree with your underlying premise), it would be better if all parties would recognize that rationality and morality are not wholly owned by one side or the other.

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.»

Seriously it's imperative to keep State and Church totally separate issues or you'll wind up with a country dictated by brainwashed evangelicals who think their way is the only way... and the rest of us are just misguided.

Kathleen Heasman says of evangelicals in the latter half of the 19th century: «By the mid-century it had become an accepted fact... that those who had experienced some spiritual renewal should straightway take part in the various efforts which were being made to help the less fortunate in the community.»

Clearly the Founders had minds of their own, as is evidenced by the subtle religious differences among Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, who, contrary to popular opinion, were neither radical deists nor evangelical Christians.

that was Chad re-wording (almost slipped that by me, Chad) in order to give the appearance I was calling all who believe in god «inbred backwoods evangelicals», which, of course, I was not.

It is hardly the strongest bond between them, but evangelicals and Catholics are also drawn together by recognizing who holds them both in contempt.