Sentences with phrase «many evangelical»

Without experiencing it, Slack admittedly sounds like garden - variety instant messaging; the difficulty of quickly summarizing what it's good at means that converts often have a wooly, evangelical way of talking about it.

Moore, who identifies as an evangelical Christian and views homosexuality as a lifestyle that is «against nature,» said in a 2005 interview on C - SPAN2 that he believes «homosexual conduct should be illegal.»

About a third of respondents say Moore, an evangelical who has described the race as a «spiritual battle,» has higher moral standards.

He and his five siblings took turns waking at 5 a.m. to make breakfast before Bible readings and prayers led by their Evangelical Christian parents.

The businesses, craft stores and bookstores located in 41 states, are run by evangelical Christians, although the stores themselves are not explicitly religious.

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.

Oklahoma City - based Hobby Lobby is a closely held chain of craft stores, owned by an evangelical Christian family.

His trip to Israel — which included meetings with top Middle Eastern political leaders and a tour of Christian holy sites with 40 evangelical activists — has fueled growing speculation that the younger Paul is seriously considering a presidential bid of his own in 2016.

The luxury coach, which was carrying the Kentucky Senator and his entourage of family, staffers, and evangelical leaders from Jerusalem to a kibbutz in the Sea of Galilee, had been derailed by flash floods and rock slides in the West Bank.

he laughed, referring to the California - based evangelical activist who organized Paul's trip to Israel.

To hear Stack tell it, this turnaround owes much to SRC's exacting quantitative controls, but even more to its almost evangelical insistence on giving human potential its due.

Her clients — there are approximately 1,000 of them — are a loyal, evangelical group.

His approach helped evangelicals gain the influence they have today.

«Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person.

Along with the many honors he received from the evangelical community and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Graham received the $ 1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1982 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996.

His ministry was governed by an independent board that included successful Christian businessmen and other professionals — a stark departure from the widespread evangelical practice of packing boards with relatives and yes - men.

The Reverend Billy Graham, perhaps the most widely heard Christian evangelical in history, died Wednesday at the age of 99 at his home in Montreat, N.C..

President George W. Bush credits Graham for his spiritual change from a lukewarm Christian to a serious and committed evangelical.

Trump's Foundation, which is financed by contributions from other people, has donated to diverse organizations ranging from the Gay Men's Health Crisis to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association.

Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the U.S.

The group says that the legislation would, for example, allow an evangelical police officer to refuse to patrol a Jewish street festival or «an EMT could claim the law is on his side after refusing service to a dying transgender person in the street.»

For instance, the SPLC documents its decision to include the Family Research Council by citing the evangelical lobbying group's promotion of discredited science and unsubstantiated attacks on gay and lesbian people.

On a personal level, Pence and his wife, Karen, who are both devout evangelical Christians who have advocated for conservative «family values» for decades, were shocked and disturbed by the video.

«Silicon Valley titans have at times exhibited an evangelical and single - minded devotion to the logic of disruption,» he says.

«If you're Mike Pence, and you believe what he believes, you know God had a plan,» Ralph Reed, an evangelical religious and political leader and friend of Pence's, told The Atlantic.

«Cruz played a lot of the right cards,» says a national political adviser with deep Evangelical ties, who did not want to speak on the record about Cruz's success because he is backing another candidate.

«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.

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.

De La Rosa herself became evangelical: «When I have a daughter,» she says, «we're going to skip the tampon and go straight to the cup.»

Pence, an evangelical Christian who had planned to highlight the plight of Christian minorities during his trip, will not meet with Palestinian Christians or with officials from the Coptic Christian church, who declined a meeting in response to the U.S. move.

Pence is the official most associated with Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, because the move was largely viewed as a nod to Trump's evangelical base, which cares deeply about this issue.

The sixth person on the list is Terry Jones, a Florida evangelical Christian pastor who in 2010 raised an international outcry when he threatened to burn copies of the Koran.

If the contention strains credulity, it is worth noting Dollarama employees have an earnest, almost evangelical belief in the value of the goods that they sell.

Beddoe co-founded the company and was a charismatic chief — Durfy calls him «evangelical» — who instilled an underdog spirit in the upstart air carrier.

Financial advisor and evangelical Christian Dave Ramsey probably wasn't expecting this much pushback when he shared a piece contrasting the habits of the rich with those of the poor.

Billy Graham, the world - renowned evangelical preacher, died at the age of 99.

Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

The Trump administration has consistently been a champion of religious liberty, particularly insofar as it pertains to evangelical Christian causes.

Perkins argued that the good Trump could do for evangelicals made up for his un-biblical behavior and warranted a free pass.

Just look, Perkins said, at the way the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, a major figure within the evangelical world, used a popular golf euphemism for a «do - over» — a «mulligan» — to imply that Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels should be ignored.

«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.»

Members of Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, a loose umbrella of faith advisers with close access to the president, celebrated the news.

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

The executive order, which will be signed in the White House Rose Garden during proceedings for the National Day of Prayer, is likely to please Trump's evangelical base.

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.

The leader of the conservative evangelical organization Family Research Council said that evangelicals were happy to give President Donald Trump a «do - over» after a previously unpublished 2011 interview with adult film actress Stormy Daniels revealed that she may have been paid to remain silent about an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.

Onetime Alabama Senate frontrunner (and longtime Christian theocrat) Roy Moore has managed to hold onto his evangelical base, despite being embroiled in allegations of sexual misconduct with at least eight teenage girls when he was in his 30s.

Speaking to Politico's Edward - Isaac Dovere about the Daniels incident, Tony Perkins said evangelicals «kind of gave him — «All right, you get a mulligan.

He told Dovere that evangelicals «were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists.

Certainly, this does fit in with a wider evangelical ethos of redemption, which typically disregards a person's pre-conversion actions.