This triumph was inspired by Reverend Franklin Graham, the son of Evangelical Billy Graham, Reverend Jerry Falwell, Jr., and other
evangelical leaders who were instrumental in Donald Trump's victory.
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.
In fact, in the past month I have hosted quite a few
Evangelical leaders who have spoken quite eloquently as to why they are voting for Trump, Clinton, or others.
Perhaps the intense media focus on
evangelical leaders who support Trump, such as Jerry Falwell Jr., helps sustain this misleading account in spite of the fact that more mainstream evangelical leaders, such as Russell Moore and Max Lucado, have denounced Donald Trump.
Patrick joins several other prominent
evangelical leaders who CT noted left office for reasons outside of financial or sexual impropriety.
Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission president Russell Moore joined 60
evangelical leaders who signed a letter in support of Gorsuch and his judicial philosophy.
Billy Graham's son and protége is among a handful of
evangelical leaders who, like Trump, have praised Putin.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and other
evangelical leaders who oppose recognizing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as protected classes spoke out against Trump's decision to keep the controversial Obama order.
Land is among the many
evangelical leaders who use DeMoss to relay concerns or advice to the governor.
«It was part of the introduction process,» says David Barton,
an Evangelical leader who heads up Keep the Promise, a network of pro-Cruz super PACs.
But Christianity Today profiles en emerging
evangelical leader who's offering a different leadership model.
«Jesus» love and grace would have never resulted in such a hateful act,» said Jim Wallis, a progressive
evangelical leader who advised Rauf about the meeting and helped organize the call.
(CNN)- A top
evangelical leader who is close to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says the candidate's Mormon faith will be even more of an issue in the general election than it has been in the primary, predicting that the focus on Romney's faith will present a challenge to Romney.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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 Engl
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 Engl
Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone
who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»
Back then, during his first bid for president, he faced opposition from candidates including Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and favorite of
evangelical voters
who billed himself as the «Christian
leader.»
The authors conducted extensive interviews with clergy
who have left parish ministry, voluntarily or involuntarily, and with denominational
leaders from five church bodies — the Assemblies of God, the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist Church.
Time and again, the assumption among Christian
leaders, and
evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to church is simply to make a few style updates - edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor
who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.
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.
Time and again, the assumption among Christian
leaders, and
evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to church is simply to make a few style updates — edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor
who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.
But Obama's public piety has helped him bond with young
evangelical leaders,
who are less tied to the GOP than their parents» generation.
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.
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»!)
True, some
Evangelical leaders have spoken well lately of Vladimir Putin,
who makes Orthodoxy a major part of his public image, and some
Evangelical organizations have cooperated with the Russian Orthodox Church in international conferences on the family.
I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern
evangelical movement, particularly to movement
leaders here in the United States or to missionaries
who have been out of the country for a long time.
What is more, in their defense of male - authority, another
evangelical leader (who served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society) insists that God the Son is eternally subordinate to God
evangelical leader (
who served as president of the
Evangelical Theological Society) insists that God the Son is eternally subordinate to God
Evangelical Theological Society) insists that God the Son is eternally subordinate to God the Father.
The response to World Vision revealed some major fault lines in the Church, and many of us
who grew up
evangelical interpreted all the gleeful «farewelling» from
evangelical leaders as our final kick out the door.
«Seventy - five years ago
evangelical leader J. Gresham Machen observed that Bible - believing Protestants and faithful Roman Catholics shared more in common with one another than they did with others
who denied the deity of Christ, the miracles of Jesus, the Holy Trinity, or the second coming of Christ.
In the process, he developed and cultivated an extensive network of
evangelical leaders and Christian businessmen
who would sponsor and support his evangelistic crusades and
who would cooperate with each other in myriad similar ventures.
Wallis,
who has spearheaded a group of
evangelical leaders on immigration reform, said that Obama particularly mentioned the importance of faith
leaders in the immigration debate.
Christian Post: Iowa
Evangelical Leaders Call on Santorum or Bachmann to Exit GOP Race «If you can't beat»em, then join»em,» seems to be the strategy of an Iowa pastor
who only weeks ago asked former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to withdraw from the Republican presidential primary before deciding later to endorse his candidacy.
The board — composed of longtime members Michael Van Skaik and Larry Osborne as well as business
leaders Jon Phelps and Matt Rogers (
who were added after popular
evangelical speaker Paul Tripp and Harvest Bible Chapel's James McDonald resigned over the summer)-- also added that many of the formal charges that had been levied against him were «altogether unfair or untrue.»
The nation's biggest
evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors
who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant
leader's opposition to gay marriage.
We were not allowed to talk about
evangelical staff proselytizing or about
leaders who used their power to promote a particular religious ideology, but only to frame this as a problem between cadets.
However, most denominational
leaders (but not all) say that a pastor
who has fallen in that one prominent way — committing adultery — can be restored to the pulpit, according to the National Association of
Evangelicals (NAE).
She also seems to go out of her way to pick on
evangelical leaders, which is too bad because I really think
evangelicals need to hear what she has to say, especially on page 10: «I'm tired of watching those
who are supposed to care about the Bible reduce its stories and its teachings to slogans.
The convention opens with a prayer from a Hispanic
evangelical leader and closes with a benediction from a Catholic cleric
who's sometimes called «America's pope.»
You're the typical Tea Fartie maniac
who would do anything to spew out lies to create fear and hysteria, while you keep trying to create your white - only
Evangelical theocracy in the Redneck belt with Rick Santorum as your «supreme
leader.»
«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.
«If we can tell you what to do in the bedroom, we can certainly tell you what to do in the voting booth,» said the Minnesota minister, an
evangelical leader of a nondenominational church,
who expects to endorse Republican John McCain during his «Pulpit Freedom Sunday» sermon.
Justin recalls a frustrating conversation with an
evangelical leader named Mark
who tried to convince Justin that his homosexuality must be the result of faulty parenting, or some sort of childhood trauma, because there was no concrete scientific «proof» that biology contributed to same - sex attraction.
Pope Benedict XVI,
who announced his resignation Monday after eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church, will leave a legacy of strong theology, cooperation with
evangelicals and a hardline conservative stance on social issues,
evangelical leaders and observers say.
Several of those planning to attend the Wheaton gathering said they are tired of seeing
leaders who regularly praise Trump — such as evangelist Franklin Graham, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress — representing all
evangelicals.
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.
We are pleased to note that the following
evangelical leaders are among those
who have endorsed the most recent statement, «That They May Have Life» (see page 18):
Even after SGM has appealed to the First Amendment to avoid an investigation into the matter, Challies and many
evangelical leaders with ties to SGM have either remained silent about the lawsuit or defended SGM, often characterizing those
who have come forward with concerns about abuse as «divisive» or «sowing disunity and strife» in the Church.
Boyce,
who is located in Trinidad and Tobago, has struggled to reach major Christian
leaders in Irma's path to confirm the extent of the damage among the
evangelical community across the Leeward Islands.
«Given that the express goal of this event is evangelism, with the commitment of new believers to Christ, we do not believe that Rev. Graham... should be the exemplar that impresses itself on these new believers,» wrote four
evangelical pastors and a Catholic
leader who were invited to endorse the March 3 — 5 event, but opposed Graham's place as keynote speaker.
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.