Sentences with phrase «many evangelical ministers»

One example of conservative Protestantism's new focus on expressive interpersonal relations, Wilcox notes, is that Fuller Theological Seminary, a leading training ground for evangelical ministers, established a psychology department in 1965.

(CNN)-- A group of more than 100 prominent Christians ranging from evangelical minister Jim Wallis on the political left to Nixon White House aide Chuck Colson on the right released a document Thursday calling for an end to the fight club tone of the national political discourse

Both of my grandfathers were evangelical ministers, Free Methodists to be precise.

They no longer speak for many evangelical ministers and their flocks.

When asked if evangelical ministers had «changed» because of his ministry, Charles replied that he saw many struggling seriously to overcome prejudices and felt that there would be a different attitude in the future.

jazzguitarman: Suffice to say that, as a «center - left» evangelical minister, I have been actively «fighting» the so - called Christian Right for at least two decades.

I had a fabulous dialogue with one of the evangelical ministers, who told me he couldn't change his theological point of view — and I said I could understand that.

In the opinion of S. C. Couch, president of the evangelical ministers group, bringing Charles in had been well worth the time and money; many gays, he said, have written to Charles since his visit because «he spoke the truth and showed the love.»

This was the first time ever that there was direct communication between the evangelical ministers and their flocks and the gay people....

Scott Lively is an obsessively anti-gay American evangelical minister.

I was also an evangelical minister for nearly 20 years.

Brief introduction: I'm an ordained evangelical minister, board certified chaplain, adultery survivor, blogger, and proud, native Minnesotan.

Mainline pastors, Catholic priests and evangelical ministers are all improvising, trying new things, risking failure, scattering seed and seeing what fruit might spring up.

• One afternoon an evangelical minister, a Baptist, tells me about the oldline groups in Cuba, such as the Methodists.

In addition to the corporate and political bigwigs leading talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week is one not - so - usual suspect: an evangelical minister.

Some may consider the location of the Charlotte billboard controversial: along a parkway named for the Rev. Billy Graham, the venerated evangelical minister.

Essentially the same gospel was preached by thousands of evangelical ministers in Moody's time and has been followed by a multitude since.

The career of the present - day evangelist, Billy Graham, seems to indicate that the evangelical minister still occupies an important place in America Protestantism.

The following year, he went on radio with the evangelical minister James Dobson to apologize for having been unfaithful to his second wife.

Of Bugenhagen, the first evangelical minister of the parish church of Wittenberg and the first Superintendent of the church of electoral Saxony, it is reported that, during a visit to Denmark where he helped to introduce the Reformation, he once preached for seven hours!

«Of course, that's because he was speaking to a group of Hispanic evangelical ministers with whom he shares a lot of common ground.

Can you imagine: His Excellency, the leader of the Catholic Church in New York State, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, taking time out of his busy schedule to call a Protestant Evangelical Minister!

Assuming he wins, the council will have two ordained Puerto Rican evangelical ministers.

Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the only Democrat in the New York State Senate who voted against the marriage equality bill in 2011, has been busy lately supporting evangelical minister Erick Salgado in his long - shot bid to become the next mayor of NYC.

If you can believe what Will Bredderman wrote in recent «Will's Watch» column in the Courier Life — and I usually do — there is a scheme afoot that would have an Evangelical minister (who is also a former mayoral candidate) run in a Democratic primary against former Councilman Domenic Recchia, who is the leading Democrat in the race to unseat Republican - Conservative U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm in November.

Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the only Democrat in the New York State Senate who voted against the marriage equality bill in 2011, has been busy lately supporting evangelical minister Erick Salgado in his long - shot bid to become the next mayor of NYC... Read

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

A documentary crew follows an evangelical minister on his final exorcism where things don't go as planned.

The Armor of Light (PG - 13 for mature themes and brief profanity) Pro-life documentary about an anti-abortion Evangelical minister who comes to question the wisdom of his pro-gun stance in the face of the proliferation of Stand Your Ground laws.

As the granddaughter of an evangelical minister, Rosalie applied herself equally in school in the creative writing and religious studies departments, which had an interesting impact on her writing.

Evangelical ministers preached the gospel of «creation care.»

Not exact matches

After evangelicals raised concerns, Trudeau dismissed the issue as a «kerfuffle» and Employment Minister Patty Hajdu said that the problem is that evangelicals failed to understand the attestation.

• «Evangelical and Catholic,» writes a Baptist minister who is a skeptic about the project Evangelicals and Catholics Together, «are two radically different and incompatible ways of being Christian.»

Back then, during his first bid for president, he faced opposition from candidates including Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and favorite of evangelical voters who billed himself as the «Christian leader.»

When her mother, the daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers, died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis in a series of recollections penned for friends and family remembered her mother especially for her evangelical piety and practice: her conversion at age 12; her lifelong work in a Methodist Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia; her habits of secret prayer, her graces at table; and her abiding affection for her favorite hymns.

Christians should burn their copies of the NT for the 2000 year old con job that has been perpetuated on them by popes, bishops, priests, ministers and evangelicals such as Osteen.

The Evangelical Alliance director for mission England, Gavin Calver, and his wife, Anne, a trainee Baptist minister, are the theme leaders for this year's... More

As a «someone» with a very public view that is contrary to the «official» party line, and who has ministered in so many different churches — evangelical and otherwise — what has your experience been in this area?

The creative team behind The War Room are Alex and Stephen Kendrick, two Baptist minister brothers known for producing family - oriented films with Evangelical themes.

I stumbled into the evangelical world by a kind of accident 15 years ago when some colleagues and I wanted to understand how the culture of a seminary shapes the ministers who are formed there.

ie: Three Evangelical Lesbian ministers were accepted recently into the church.

Radio ministers not only kept evangelical doctrine before the people; they made it clear that legions still built on the firm foundation and walked on the ancient pathways, and would teach their children to do the same.

He said it's true, in general blacks feel more welcome in white churches - PARTICULARLY evangelical churches - than whites are made to feel welcome in black churches (although ministers themselves would love to have more white or hispanic attendees... but the parishioners in these black churches often disagree with that philosophy.

Rev. Dr. Larry Poland is a minister in the Evangelical Church Alliance; Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is the Interfaith Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

For example, Jerry Falwell, the successful evangelical television minister, introduced Bryant at one rally by saying that the» «So - called gay folks [would] just as soon kill you as look at you.»

Phillips is the faith relations manager at ONE and an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church.

American Evangelicals might have gone to Uganda to campaign for anti-gay legislation, but so did other powerful figures on the gay lobby side, including President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, threatening African governments with the withdrawal of aid if they didn't conform to the new Western normal.

«If we can tell you what to do in the bedroom, we can certainly tell you what to do in the voting booth,» said the Minnesota minister, an evangelical leader of a nondenominational church, who expects to endorse Republican John McCain during his «Pulpit Freedom Sunday» sermon.

I am a rostered Diaconal Minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

I didn't think the boy was Evangelical, but I also had it in my head the minister was Lutheran for some reason.