Sentences with phrase «evangelical community»

It's a bold question that hasn't really hasn't been a part of the public conversation in recent times in evangelical communities.

He also built bridges to the more progressive segments of the conservative evangelical community.

She challenges evangelical communities to consider how to honor their theological principles associated with gender, sexuality, and marriage while minimizing the negative impact of purity culture.

Most interesting has been the response from within the traditional evangelical community, as several people whom I greatly respect have expressed concerns.

But evangelicals don't like anyone who is different, and people who want reasonable and prudent gun control are different than those in evangelical communities / bubbles.

But it is by no means coterminous with the much larger Evangelical community in America, nor is its rather cuddly relationship with God as original as Luhrmann seems to think.

My greatest fear is that there are thousands of young people living in evangelical communities today who are afraid to openly discuss their sexuality because they've been told that being gay is a sin that will land them in hell.

Billed as a «grassroots Christian disarmament movement,» 2FP's goal is to educate the broader evangelical community about the possibility of a future world without nuclear weapons and to provide ideas and avenues for advocacy.

«Julie Ingersoll, a professor at the University of North Florida who studies evangelical communities, said mental isolation is key to abuse, and websites telling the stories of abuse survivors «completely undermine the power of abusers to convince their victims that it's their fault and that they're all alone.

The blog is ABOUT belied in the modern world and is of great interest to those who consider the American evangelical community and certain other religious sects the source of some serious modern problems.

Until recently Quiros's statements would have been considered heretical in many evangelical communities, where the faithful tended to subscribe to a creed that Christian historian Mark Noll in his book,

Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world, boasts a huge evangelical community that has grown ninefold since 1970, during which time the country's population has doubled.

It is often challenging to fully report on stories of sexual harassment or sexism in evangelical communities because records are sealed and because individual allegations are dismissed by people in power, Ingersoll says.

My feeling is that the survey should not be taken too seriously, and it certainly should not be used to try to sell more apologetics curriculum to an «increasingly relativistic evangelical community.»

Civilitas, which was founded by former Lausanne Movement executive chairman and American Bible Society president Doug Birdsall in response to the AME church shooting, has spent the past year hosting conversations across the country in order to bridge the white and black evangelical communities.

«In the days and weeks following the tragedy in Charleston, many in the white evangelical community wanted to do something to fight the plague of racism in our country and churches,» stated Birdsall.

For nearly a half century J. I. Packer has served as perhaps the most distinguished theologian in the Reformed evangelical community.

Most were part of my own evangelical community.

It is, I believe, threefold: we must simultaneously strip away our false conceptions, re-learn the meaning of worship, and apply the newly acquired principles of worship to our contemporary evangelical communities.

Finally, I hope and pray that we can turn this into a teachable moment that benefits our whole evangelical community, both in our gospel witness, and in our civil - society participation.

And I have to say, and I've said this to the president when he received us and the delegation I was with, that the Latino evangelical community is a staunch supporter of Israel and the state of Israel.

In practice, this means that Americans generally, and especially the increasingly influential evangelical community, must develop a better sense of America's place in the world.

Since 2002, when Rev. Cizik was first «converted» to the cause of climate change, he has been an advocate for action on climate change within the US evangelical community and beyond.

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

Recognizing its role to serve the broader evangelical community, Baptist Press seeks to carry stories and report news that is of interest to numerous likeminded evangelical readers.Baptist Press provides news service to the 42 state Baptist papers.

«If you are an Evangelical Christian, the fastest growing demographic in the American Evangelical community is embedded in the Hispanic church,» said Rodriguez, leader of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference.

Until recently Quiros's statements would have been considered heretical in many evangelical communities, where the faithful tended to subscribe to a creed that Christian historian Mark Noll in his book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, says meant «that we, and only we, have the truth, while nonbelievers or Christian believers who are not evangelicals practice only error.»

How can Southern Baptists with their strong Landmark suspicions relate to the wider evangelical community?

«This week I've read messages from some immigrants, women, and people of color in evangelical communities with profound sadness, and I've also heard from evangelicals who have celebrated the election results.

Along with the many honors he received from the evangelical community and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Graham received the $ 1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1982 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Not the least of the concerns raised by Wells» critique is the conspicuous absence of moral fiber in the Church» notably in the evangelical community.

Perhaps the greatest impact of the Lausanne Congress has been its symbolic importance to the evangelical community.

Barton had written off other critics as «liberal elites,» but this was a searing attack from within the evangelical community.

What evangelical would want to be associated with someone who smoked heavily, drank copious quantities of beer, and held views on the Bible, the Atonement, and purgatory which were out of place in the evangelical community of that age?

I'm not sure what the evangelical community can do about that.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

Just knowing the size, the cultural prominence, and the public influence of the evangelical community, I was particularly interested in what the emergence of the ECI and other creation...

It was because we were advocating for other victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community, crimes which had been perpetrated by people in the church and whose abuse had been enabled, very clearly, by prominent leaders in the evangelical community.

So when the Rhodes Scholar began studying for a Ph.D. in environmental studies at Oxford University, she paired the two to study the evangelical community's discussions of climate change.

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.

But when you grow up believing everyone outside evangelical Christianity is going to get spewed from God's mouth at best or cooked for eternity in hell at worst, when the people you love most in the world belong to the evangelical community and want you to belong to it too, making a deliberate step out of that tradition is a big deal.

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»