Sentences with phrase «evangelical support of»

Rather than writing about this myself, I thought I'd open the floor to some Christian brothers and sisters who can explain what evangelical support of Phil Robertson communicates to them.

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

There's another element to evangelical support of Trump, one that Perkins's word choice in this interview makes clear.

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In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas» Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state's conservative strain of evangelical Christianity.

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.

The story of King David, a sinner who remained beloved by God and favored by his people, has been a favorite of evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump, even during the Republican primaries.

It was heartening to see the Evangelical Alliance come out in support of No More Page 3 earlier this year, asking all member churches to do the same.

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?

Another way of cutting the evangelical electorate is to say that 86 % supported someone other than Romney and 85 % didn't choose a Mormon.

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.

It has gained the support of Girlguiding UK, Mumsnet, the Evangelical Alliance and the Royal College of Midwives.

Jones has suggested that the Faustian bargain with Trump among evangelicals represented an application of desperate measures to a patient on life support.

His expectation seems to be that religious conservatives — especially those of the evangelical stripe — ought to support a....

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.

As long as the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United States.

In evangelical circles (of which I am a part), selective use of the bible is used to support positions already arrived at, and other passages ignored.

There continues to be an eager media narrative that evangelicals are at the heart of the Trump movement, and the high profile support of notable evangelicals like Ben Carson, and Jerry Falwell Jr. only contribute to this perspective.

Forms of exegesis or biblical interpretation that do not support the homiletic, evangelical, and educational missions of the Church may have their place in the academy, but they are subsets of religious studies, not theology.

then by your own admitted standards, Evangelicals pretty much have no one they should support: Republicans, especially RELIGIOUS Republicans, are quite possibly, more than any other group of people in this country, the most hypocritical people on the planet.

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.»

The day the Evangelicals started supporting the Liberal Romney and his satanic religion of Mormonism they ceased to be Christians.

Therefore, when polls report that 87 per cent of white evangelicals support Trump, the emphasis should be on the white rather than evangelicals.

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.

More significant in the long run, however, may be the second way evangelicals have been reacting, through the support of nondenominational parachurch organizations engaged in overseas mission.

Yet overseas mission remains in a special way the «cause» of the evangelicals, and they provide the bulk of its financial support.

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.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

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?

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

Garlow, an outspoken evangelical who played a major role in organizing Christian groups in support of California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, spoke plainly: He would not be supporting the Republican in this race.

King Obama has lost support of the Evangelicals, the Catholics, and now Black pastors... He has indeed unified his opposition!

Barber is unabashed in calling out what he deems as «policy violence» and the theological malpractice of many evangelicals who place themselves in support of legislation that is morally corrupt and antithetical to anything related to the values of God.

The ultimate reality that I live with is that if my abuser had been Nathaniel Morales instead of Larry Nassar, if my enabler had been [an SGM pastor] instead of [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, if the organization I was speaking out against was Sovereign Grace under the leadership of [Mahaney] instead of MSU under the leadership of Lou Anna Simon, I would not only not have evangelical support, I would be actively vilified and lied about by every single evangelical leader out there.

Editor's note: David French is a constitutional lawyer, veteran of the Iraq war and the co-author (most recently) of «Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney (And Feel Good about It!).»

Today evangelicals tend to support legislation restricting the freedom of pregnant women to have abortions.

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.

Seems like 92 % of evangelicals do not support gun control efforts.

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).

Russia's evangelical minority, roughly 1 percent of its population of 143 million, finds itself living and serving in the East - West tension between its nationalistic government and the outside evangelical groups that support its gospel work in the heavily Orthodox country.

When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, they tell each of us — not just the gay us, the black us; but the fearful us, the harmed us — «I do not, will not love you as Jesus does.»

«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.

Tragically, numerous evangelical churches support the godless slaughter of Muslims in the Middle East as well as turns a blind eye to the current genocide of the Palestinians (some of whom are Christians)?

In choosing a running mate who is Catholic, Romney showed that he is not worried about damaging support among Protestants, «especially those who don't think of themselves as evangelicals,» Galston said.

That's exactly what most evangelical leaders (very few of whom supported either Trump or Clinton when the election began) advise.

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.

Just as being an evangelical does not make Wesley entirely supportive of all contemporary evangelicals; so being a liberal certainly does not mean that Wesley would support everything that is said and done by contemporary religious liberals.

According to the study, nearly half (47 percent) of Generation X and millennial white evangelicals (those born after 1964) support the legalization of gay marriage.