Sentences with phrase «conservative evangelical women»

I've been encouraged to receive positive reviews from biblical scholars like Ben Witherington, Peter Enns, Roger Olson, Daniel Kirk, and Brian LePort, as well as from conservative evangelical women who weren't necessarily expecting to like the book or who may differ from me regarding some gender issues.

Not exact matches

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

Driscoll's comments rightfully drew some fire and I believe he eventually apologized, but I fear that the sentiment behind these remarks — that the Bible holds women to a certain standard of beauty that must be maintained throughout all seasons of life — remains pervasive within certain sectors of the conservative evangelical community.

And David, frankly speaking conservative Evangelicals (and Catholics) are almost the only ones who view women as second - class Christians nowadays.

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.

On the other hand, ordained women in ACNA and in other evangelical churches may well decide that their own vocations are better pursued back within Church of England - related Anglican churches, and one may see a strengthening of conservative female leadership there.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

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.

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.

She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.

Back in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.

The only demographics that broke for Trump more than white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).

Among evangelicals, some speculated that Trump's shaky background on pro-life issues, awkward articulation of his personal faith, and reputation around women would turn away conservative Christians.

Balmer wrote his book, however, as an evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and progressive social activism around the poor, women, and ethnic minorities.

It is funny to see this rendering of GOP women: Sarah Palin — social conservative Michele Bachmann — christian / evangelical feminist What about a real picture of both?

Despite a few female evangelical leaders speaking out against Trump, Nance mostly saw women voting according to their conservative values — and they've been happy with the results.

Conservative Christians go to the evangelical or fundamentalist churches that offer theological certitude, big youth ministries, men's groups, women's groups, and which help foster a paranoid right - wing political ideology (i.e., we're Christians, so of COURSE we hate Obama).

---- So you are telling me that when you wrote::::» Conservative Christians go to the evangelical or fundamentalist churches that offer theological certitude, big youth ministries, men's groups, women's groups, and which help foster a paranoid right - wing political ideology (i.e., we're Christians, so of COURSE we hate Obama).»

But there is a group known as «conservative evangelicals» who are extremely good at getting on to C of E committees — because they are passionately opposed to same - sex marriage (and, some of them, to women bishops).

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.