Sentences with phrase «evangelicals living in»

Rakhuba was in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on America's election night; he said Ukrainians, including Ukrainian evangelicals living in Russia, were more likely to oppose Trump — in part because of his characterization of Crimea, the territory taken over by Russia a few years ago.

The Evangelicals living in Rome knew the bible too, and sometimes took the Book of Mormon to see what it had to say.

I remember the day when Evangelicals lived in shear fear of the prospect of their daughters returning home, saying they had fallen in love with a Mormon.

Not exact matches

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

He's not exactly another philosopher - pope, but there are other ways of being an inspirational, evangelical, and poetically theological pope: For Augustine, the joy promised by the Lord to his followers is given and lives in spe, in hope.

In the same year, Lifeway, an evangelical research agency, found that 46 percent of those it surveyed never wondered whether or not they will go to heaven, and 28 percent reported that finding a deeper purpose in life wasn't a priority for theIn the same year, Lifeway, an evangelical research agency, found that 46 percent of those it surveyed never wondered whether or not they will go to heaven, and 28 percent reported that finding a deeper purpose in life wasn't a priority for thein life wasn't a priority for them.

But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcIn the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and churcin family life, work, and church.

Perhaps this attitude is best seen in the most influential Southern Baptists in America today: Billy Graham, a «prophet with honor» and America's chaplain for more that fifty years; Chuck Colson, evangelist, prison reformer, and cofounder of Evangelicals and Catholics Together; and Rick Warren, a pastor whose writings have touched millions of lives.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

You don't have to venture very deep into the heart of your average evangelical Sunday to attend a service that avoids talking about discomfort or pain in life.

But having embraced him who is truth as the truth because they have entered into friendship with him, evangelical Catholics are liberated from the epidemic and soul - withering skepticism of postmodernity and are empowered to embrace the authority that Jesus represents and incarnates: the authority of the living God, who reveals himself in deed and word to the people of Israel, and who finally and definitively reveals himself in his Son.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Evangelical Catholicism understands the priesthood in iconic terms: The Catholic priest is a man whose ordination makes him into a living re-presentation of the Lord Jesus.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

At the same time, I think it plausible that evangelicals are encountered by the living God, and are encountered more frequently than many of those who worship in the ways that Smith outlines.

In The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution, John W. Compton argues that the idea of the living Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century EvangelLiving Constitution, John W. Compton argues that the idea of the living Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century Evangelliving Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century Evangelicals.

This emphasis on beauty in the liturgical life of the Church is another reason Evangelical Catholicism takes sacramental preparation and adult catechesis so seriously.

Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

However, by refusing to submit to «the democracy of the dead,» (Chesterton's words, not Compton's), nineteenth - century Evangelicals did, in ways Compton suggests but does not fully clarify, take a first crucial step toward the idea of a «living Constitution.»

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ageIn this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the agein the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

When I hear people disparaging symbolic undergarments, I realize that they would do the same to Jewish and Catholic ceremonial garb, as well as the outwardly dramatic group reactions displayed by Evangelicals including, speaking in tongues and the accepting of Jesus in their lives.

Evangelical culture tends to treat women as if their primary purpose in life is to give our husband sex.

While evangelical Christianity in growing rapidly in mainland China, some statistics indicate that Catholicism is not doing nearly as well in a cultural environment in which many people are seeking answers to life's questions that go beyond consumerism.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

After all, John Wesley was perhaps the major figure in what came to be known as the «Evangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in AmerEvangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in Amerevangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in America.»

Grey and the conservatives agree in their insistence on «no expansion of gambling,» although the evangelicals are against it on moral grounds while Grey's opposition is based on «quality of life.»

This author lives in that special land that evangelicals created for themselves, where history is ignored and bigotry is embraced.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Obama is a Christian and his actions as president are very much in line with the teaching of the new testament, yet I couldn't dare say that at my Evangelical church where the ACA has literally saved the life of our pastors child but here is so much hate for Obama it's down right scary.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

I thought about this recently, after reading columns by Ross Douthat and Alan Jacobs on evangelical intellectual life and the evangelical crisis in the age of Trump.

His 1994 book Reasonable Faith (Crossway) argues that «Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence... there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies.

For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor The Story of Christianity, Volumes I & II by Justo Gonzalez Take This Bread by Sara Miles Remember Who You Are by Will Wilimon The Sacred Meal by Nora Gallagher Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail by Robert Weber

Being Chinese - American born in AZ in a small town, everyone that I know and have known who immigrated from China believe in the evangelical christian way of life.

Like others of that time, Lenski did not anticipate the resurgence of evangelical Protestantism in our public life, a resurgence that began slowly in the 1950s and came to widespread public notice in the second half of the 1970s.

Known by many in UK charismatic and evangelical circles for its contributions to the worship scene, Life Church's latest album, Dance Again, featured in the Top 40 secular charts.

Was it ordained before the foundation of the world that the year 2015, which saw the rise of Donald Trump's candidacy and his clumsy attempts to establish Evangelical bona fides, should also see the publication of the long - awaited first volume of In the Beginning Was the Word, Mark Noll's history of the Bible in American public lifIn the Beginning Was the Word, Mark Noll's history of the Bible in American public lifin American public life?

For all our differences and ongoing arguments, to be an evangelical means we live in this tradition of interpretation.

Beyond the search for a better life, evangelicals and Orthodox in Ethiopia increasingly share even more.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade shoIn this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade shoin sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

I disagree, I think that Evangelical can live in any kind of America that they want to.

Living in Alabama, the very heart of right wing evangelicals, my views are not very popular, and I am perfectly okay with that.

I happen to live in the Bible belt and my guess is the Evangelicals here will support Perry or Gingrich only because Michelle Bachmann is stepping down.

Wesley was an evangelical in the sense that he undertook to supplement the activity of the Church of England with a program aimed at bringing the gospel to the masses of estranged people and helping them to transform their personal and social lives.