Sentences with phrase «launched by the evangelical»

A new eight - week course aimed at dispelling misconceptions about Christianity among Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Hindus has been launched by the Evangelical... More

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Interest in Cho and his ministry was stirred among American evangelicals a few years ago by his One Day's Wages campaign, which he launched following a trip to Burma.

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.

National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy Wilson, head of the and Metropolitan Community Church - the nation's largest denomination expressly serving LGBT Americans - are among the appointees to the panel, which was launched by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Earlier this year, Christian evangelicals, who have a direct line to the White House, launched the «Evangelical Climate Initiative», signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven LEvangelical Climate Initiative», signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven Levangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven Life».