Sentences with phrase «of white mainline»

According to a PRRI poll conducted last year, 74 percent of white evangelicals, 66 percent of white mainline Protestants, and 63 percent of white Catholics said they saw Islamic and American values in conflict.

The high point was the 2004 election, when 34 percent of churchgoing white evangelicals, 31 percent of Catholics, and 27 percent of white mainline Protestants said their churches provided election information.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

White evangelicals are the most likely to view the change negatively (77 percent), but the majority of white mainline Protestants (66 percent), black Protestants (65 percent), and Catholics (61 percent) feel likewise.

«By contrast, nearly nine in 10 Jews say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as do about seven in 10 Americans with no religious affiliation and 63 % of white mainline Protestants,» the survey reported.

Among nonwhite Christians and white evangelicals, 40 % and 38 % said yes, respectively; 29 % of Catholics and 19 % of white mainline Protestants also responded that God plays a role.

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.

The Asian American Christian church is extremely diverse, vibrant, multigenerational, and cutting edge with all the struggles and concerns of the historically White Church - evangelical and mainline.

The common wisdom of church developers at the time was simple: where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families with children, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.

White mainline Protestants make up only 15 % of the nation's population, the survey revealed.

As a white, southern, mainline, Christian I scored 9 out of 10 on the examples, I want to test myself on the rest...

White Catholics averaged exactly half right, followed by mainline Protestants and people who said they were «nothing in particular,» both of whom got just under half right.

According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted before the election, about two - thirds of white evangelicals (67 %) and mainline Protestants (65 %) believe that America does not have a moral responsibility to accept Syrian refugees.

Its essential focus was on mainline Protestant ministries, and it was guided by a commission composed largely of white male university administrators and scholars.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

The participants in the discussion have largely, although not entirely, been white male faculty members of theological schools that can fairly be described as «mainline Protestant» schools.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

Conversely, the worship of mainline white American denominations looks increasingly exceptional, as do these groups» customary approaches to biblical authority.

Simultaneously the white, Anglo - Saxon, Protestants among these «mainline» groups were suffering cultural and economic eclipse on other fronts as «minority» Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and persons of no religious affiliation improved their relative positions in the society.

Major survey organizations such as Pew Research Center, Gallup, and Public Religion Research Institute often split non-Catholic Christians into the historical categories of black Protestants, mainline Protestants, and white evangelicals.

«Where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families - with - children on which to draw, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.»

A team of five established and published scholars — women and men, black and white — interviewed a wide variety of families, ranging in religious orientation from Jewish to African - American Pentecostal, to white evangelical, to mainline Protestant, to Catholic.

To be more specific, I am thinking of a group of Christians — mostly white, middle class, urban, highly educated, mainline Protestants — who belong to what I earlier referred to as the restless to radical post-affluent class now surfacing at strategic points within the socio - economic order.

More than half of white evangelicals (54 %) and white mainline Protestants (53 %) would support a law barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, according to a survey conducted in June by the Public Religion Research Institute.

The «functions» for which theological schools are to prepare future clergy are determined by the expectations of the membership of «mainline» white Protestant churches, and in general that membership expects ministerial leadership to be «successful» and «efficient» (Brown, 55) in helping them to preserve their social status and cultural roles in a nation that is entering a future marked by unprecedented urbanization, technological change, and massive social planning (Kelly, 230 - 31).

The case of the mainline white churches is diametrically different.

A second reason for the decline of the mainline white churches is related to the first.

It is the ambiguous history of a middle - class, white church in the last decade, during which its mainline denomination declined in membership and influence.

Advocacy groups jockeying to push the Independent Democratic Conference back to the mainline fold — spurred by the election of Donald Trump to the presidency and the potential White House ambitions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Mainline Democrats in the state Senate on Tuesday plan to push a package of gun control measures they say are needed given the Republican control of the White House and Congress — placing new restrictions on those convicted of hate crimes and limiting the number of guns a person can purchase in a month.

The heated debate over a non-binding budget resolution in the Senate that morphed into claims of «white privilege» is, naturally, be interpreted different ways by the leadership of the Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline Democrats.