Sentences with phrase «evangelical leaders at»

Senators James Lankford (R - OK) and Angus King (I - ME) appear with evangelical leaders at a press conference in Washington on Wednesday.

Dobson explained what happened following the June gathering of 1,000 evangelical leaders at Trump Tower in New York:

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As the New York Times recently announced, evangelicals, or at least some of their leaders, are rallying to the immigration cause.

Today's Evangelicals leaders need to get back to being preachers of the word like they were called upon to do and leave the judging to the ONLY ONE who has the authority to sit at the right hand of God.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

Setting aside my personal — and legally irrelevant — disgust at the idea (the «yuck factor,» as one evangelical leader infamously dubbed it, is really no sound basis for building our sexual ethics), it seems that the typical objection to such relationships is that they might lead to congenital problems in any offspring that result from the union.

Afterward, at an event kicking off a lobbying day for more than 300 evangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial Englevangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial EnglEvangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»

More than 100 evangelical leaders gathered today at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) at Wheaton College to discuss how American Christians can best respond to the current refugee crisis.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

«Despite the professed wariness toward Trump among many high - profile evangelical Christian leaders, evangelicals as a whole are, if anything, even more strongly supportive of Trump than they were of Mitt Romney at a similar point in the 2012 campaign,» Pew stated.

I was at a private meeting in Colorado Springs with a bunch of evangelical leaders.

Just under half (44 percent) of evangelicals told LifeWay Research recently that student groups at public schools should not be allowed to require their leaders to hold specific beliefs.

Charles Colson, respected evangelical leader and former President Nixon adviser, died Saturday afternoon at age 80 from complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage.

But a recent study by the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia for Stewardship Journal suggests that some significant differences are emerging between the leaders of evangelical relief and development (R&D) agencies and their donor constituencies.

I titled this post «An Evangelical's Response to Homosexuality» because I get really tired of theologians and church leaders speaking at conferences on the topic of «The Evangelical Response to Homosexuality.»

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.

Obama has reached out to evangelical leaders like Rick Warren, seen here praying at Obama's inauguration, but many still doubt his faith.

This makes the proclamation of the gospel all the more necessary and urgent,» Francis said to evangelical leaders gathered at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology (known as FATEB evangelical leaders gathered at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology (known as FATEB Evangelical School of Theology (known as FATEB in French).

In the words of the Evangelical leaders gathered at the Amsterdam 2000 conference on evangelization:

If they truly believed in it, you'd never see anything like opening prayers at the GOP convention (I assume the Democrats will do the same, so this isn't a knock against the right specifically), and you wouldn't have presidents and candidates kowtowing to «evangelical leaders» all the time, which to me is no different than a president or candidate consulting with the Pope, the only difference being the evangelical leaders are Americans.

She is Director of Studies at the Institut Biblique de Nogent - sur - Marne on the outskirts of Paris, a College for Christian leaders in the Evangelical tradition.

Meanwhile, an ongoing World magazine survey of more than 100 evangelical leaders has consistently found Rubio at the top over the past eight months, including a 49 percent approval rate in February.

After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.

For example, at a breakfast conversation sponsored by the Emerging Women Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditions.

While 38 percent of male church leaders feel at ease identifying as evangelical to other Christians, only 26 percent of female leaders feel the same way.

As Jonathan Dudley observes in a recent Belief Blog post, U.S. Catholic leaders began to take on abortion right after Roe v. Wade legalized it in 1973, but American evangelical leaders continued to teach that life begins at birth until the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Who he is: If there's a major project or campaign aimed at the evangelical community, odds are, Johnnie Moore has been involved with it — and that includes the My Faith Votes event, which brought 900 evangelical leaders to New York hear from Trump earlier this week.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

On the other hand leaders of the Bible school movement have been developing a theory of liberal arts education with the Bible at its center, and through an accrediting association have moved toward standardization and steady improvement of a program which seeks to synthesize conservative evangelical Christianity with a valid educational ideal.

Early this week, about 50 prominent evangelical leaders met at Wheaton College outside Chicago to discuss their movement's association with President Trump.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

In 1971, Evangelical leaders were denouncing Larry Norman and asking young people to burn their albums (which I did, in the backyard, saving a few of my favorites) or at least play them backwards to discover their hidden satanic messages.

The Gospel Coalition stood by them both, refusing to alter or take down the post, even after prominent and respected evangelical leaders — both men and women — asked them to take it down or at least amend the language.

I get angry when evangelical leaders show more concern for protecting the powerful at Sovereign Grace Ministries than protecting vulnerable children.

The leaders of America's top evangelical aid groups and denominations urged Congress today to reject proposed cuts to foreign aid in a letter signed by more than 100 prominent Christians, including 2 of the 6 clergy who prayed at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

A strong majority of white evangelicals are pleased with Trump's performance as president so far, and dozens of evangelical leaders, including advisers Robert Jeffress and Paula White, gathered at the White House for a dinner with Trump and vice president Mike Pence Wednesday night.

«In general, that is a myth,» said adoptive parent and foster carer Krish Kandiah, executive director: churches in mission at the Evangelical Alliance and one of the leaders of the Home for Good campaign.

For one thing, the few times I have met with the Evangelical leader» one of those times for a leisurely luncheon meeting in his office at Regent Univeristy» I have found him to be an engaging and gracious conversationalist.

Since its debut last April at the Q Gathering in Austin (where Wigg - Stevenson shared the stage with former Secretary of State George Shultz), 2FP's whirlwind «tour» has included the National Cathedral, PBS» Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Leaders Forum, and Willow Creek Community Church's young adult ministry, Generation Axis.

I feel empathy for those evangelicals who voted for Trump on the calculus of the better of two bad choices, but I feel great frustration at evangelical leaders who excused his many sins, distorted the gospel, and tried to make a positive case for Trump's virtues as commander in chief.

My hope and prayer is that as denominational leaders begin to understand the prevalence of abuse within the Evangelical community, many will be propelled to begin taking significant steps to influence substantive changes at both a national and local level.

In fact, Criswell had been forging ties with evangelicals for many years, not just with Billy Graham and Carl Henry, but with Charles E. Fuller, and Richard Halverson (who invited Criswell to preach at his evangelical Presbyterian church), with Cameron Townsend, the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators, with the Moody Bible Institute, and with Nazarene leaders (who so impressed Criswell with their camp - meeting mourners» bench that he came back to Dallas and installed kneelers in every pew» a genuine innovation for Southern Baptists).

At 3:30 p.m., evangelical leaders hold a press conference after meeting with presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, Marriott Marquis Hotel, 1535 Broadway, Manhattan.

The support from a coalition of religious leaders was aimed at countering the opposition to the bill from the Catholic Church and evangelical groups, among others.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon rallied his shock troops Saturday at the Values Voter Summit, promising evangelical leaders a 400 - electoral - vote re-election win for the president in 2020.