Sentences with phrase «evangelical support for»

The problem for successive pro-GM UK governments, starting with Tony Blair's evangelical support for GM, is that consumers and the market, not politicians or their advisors, have decided what actually happens.

This overt evangelical support for Israel aligns a branch of American Protestantism that traditionally has frowned upon religious involvement in political matters with the traditionally liberal U.S. Jewish community.

My point about Evangelical support for Israel, which is the same as the Israeli point in the quotation I provided, is that Evangelical support is not based on moral, contextual, and rational thought but on religious ideology.Let me repeat what the Israeli's say once more:

«The story here continues to be continuity in the strength of evangelical support for GOP candidates, rather than greater intensity,» said Kevin den Dulk, political science professor at Calvin College.

Reuters and others have found that church attendance distinctly decreases evangelical support for Trump, who has the least - religious supporters among the GOP candidates.

Behind evangelical support for Israel lies a long tradition of Christian thinking about the millennium.

Evangelical support for Trump, while robust, seems to have been driven by prudential judgment and fear of a Clinton presidency, rather than by blind acceptance.

Another factor contributing to Russian evangelical support for Trump was evangelist Franklin Graham, who prayed at Trump's inauguration ceremony.

And a Public Religion Research Institute study from last month found that white evangelical support for Trump is at an all - time high.

Not exact matches

Several major evangelical figures, including Jerry Falwell Jr., and Franklin Graham, both of whom serve on Donald Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, have spoken in support of Moore, and, according to the latest Fox News poll, 65 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama still plan to vote for him.

To ignore or excuse the Daniels saga, some evangelical Christians are even using a biblical comparison to explain their continued support for Donald Trump: the story of King David.

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.

I know Romney performed better than McCain among evangelicals, but I still think it's much easier for the Republican Party to win a presidential election with a candidate with fervent evangelical support (this requires the rather delicate trick of not scaring the daylights out of everyone else in the country).

Support for Israel has become a key issue for American evangelicals, some of whom believe the country plays a key role in end times and others who believe there's a biblical mandate to honor the Jewish state.

Hybels also recalled that she's been accused of participating in a «massive effort in the heart of the evangelical church to lure its members — especially its youth — away from the pro-Israel position God commands to an uncritical and unbiblical support for Palestinians.»

Oscar, it took a lot for the Evangelicals to support this guy.

According to Pew Research Center, white evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support Donald Trump for president.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

God, the actual inspiration behind the private evangelical college in Chicago's suburbs, announced long ago that he would come to this world as a human being to express his support for the human race.

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN)- The ex-wife of a Republican politician alleges her then - husband asked if they could have an open marriage, so evangelical «values voters» rethink their support for him, right?

They welcome the support for the Jewish state, many Jews say, but some are uncomfortable over recent Beck pronouncements on Judaism and the rally's close association with conservative evangelical Christians from the United States.

As Richard Rohr said, «the evangelical support of Trump will be an indictment against its validity as a Christian movement for generations to come.»

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.

Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.

The recent Christ at the Checkpoint Conference has a number of evangelical groups concerned about waning support for the nation of Israel among Evangelicals (see here and here).

«While many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.

«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.

And white evangelicals plan to overwhelmingly vote for Trump, though only 46 percent say they «strongly support» him:

CT's coverage of Christianity in Russia includes a deeper look at the 2016 anti-evangelism law, an essay on Russian evangelicals» support for Putin, and a 2011 interview with the head of external relations for the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Given the large gaps between plurality support for Trump in the primaries and majority support for him in the general election, evangelicals clearly needed time to warm up to Trump.

I'd like to get behind Rick Santorum and give him my solid support, but until he's more open about all the stimulus that has gone into his package, we won't know for sure that he's a real Republican and a true evangelical Christian.

Evangelical leaders supported Obama's call for comprehensive immigration reform, but that doesn't mean that the debate among political activists is over.

Following an election year when evangelicals were divided between their support for Trump, the mean rating for evangelicals remained at 61 while the mean rating for Buddhists, Mormons and Hindus shifted from relatively neutral to warmer ratings.

Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.

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.»

The stark reality is that most white Christians, including more than 80 percent of white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

The support of graduate theological study for Methodists in first - rate universities, with a view to the enlargement of the talent pool of well - trained «evangelicals» for service in both academy and church.

The support and interest to carry out the project — from AIPRAL (the Association of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches) and from staff of CELEP (Latin American Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies)-- was determinant in my decision to continue with plans for the publication of this book.

(CNN)-- Even though former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, one of two Catholics in the race for the GOP nomination, was helped by an evangelical bump in Iowa on Wednesday, his support among Catholic Republicans is near the bottom of the field, according to a new Gallup survey.

Perhaps wishing not to fight the battle on hostile terrain, David Hubbard, who dislikes the term «inerrant,» nevertheless responded that he welcomed the Council's formation, for» «evangelicals should support anything that contributes to a better understanding of Scripture.»

Marcus Honeysett from Living Leadership, an evangelical training and support group for priests, thinks many vicars are lacking support from the Church of England, which is leading to problems.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.

No longer admitting that the witness of the Holy Spirit in and through the Word is sufficient, certain evangelicals have attempted to develop rationalistic supports for their faith.

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

«My fear with the film is that evangelicals will know it's about Bishop Pearson, and they'll feel like, «I don't support what he stands for, so I'm not going to see it,»» Glass says.

This year, the Russian - American Institute, a faith - based educational and support organization (formerly the Russian - American Christian University), helped Hilarion interact with a cross-section of evangelicals around the United States for the first time.

Mara Einstein of Queen's College, New York, is not at all sure about those «evangelicals that are cozying up to the Jewish community and providing support for the state of Israel.