In part two of this series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks
when white evangelicals will address this issue.
In part two of a series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks
when white Evangelicals will address this issue.
Not exact matches
Therefore,
when polls report that 87 per cent of
white evangelicals support Trump, the emphasis should be on the
white rather than
evangelicals.
-- like the Republican
evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding
when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just
white people.
Yet,
when (
white)
Evangelicals support him, I know it is because his invocation of entitlements and welfare resonates with many of their political views, which unfairly tie welfare programs to black bodies.
The tensions with Charlotte were a regular topic at the family dinner table, so much so that
when I heard Isaiah 1:18 quoted, which was common in my
evangelical youth, I would mentally edit it to read: «Though your sin be as Charlotte's it shall be as
white as snow.»
Largely excluded from the PFNA
when the whites were joining the NAE, and more likely to find solidarity with the other black churches than with the
white Pentecostals or
evangelicals, these churches are much less tempted by a fundamentalist identity.
Obama's margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008
when he defeated John McCain by a 53 % to 46 % margin, and he lost ground among
white evangelical Protestants and
white Catholics.
How can it claim to bridge the divisions in human society — divisions between Greek and barbarian, bond and free, between
white and black, Aryan and non-Aryan, employer and employed — if,
when men are drawn into it, they find that another division has been added to the old ones — a division of Catholic from
Evangelical, or Episcopalian from Presbyterian or Independent?
So what happens is that
when suburban,
white evangelicals are challenged to think about race issues, the default move is to think about ways they can start sending money and support to inner cities, and those are not necessarily the same thing.
Among
white evangelicals, Democrats won just 20 - percent of the vote, less even than in 2004,
when that group flocked to the polls to support George W. Bush, an
evangelical who took religious outreach to new levels.
I do wish you and the media in general would stop using the term «
evangelicals»
when you really mean «
white middle class
evangelicals.»
The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a
white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an
evangelical darling
when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.
I was at a Native American Theology conference
when one of the
white participants stated that we should abandon terms like
evangelical and Christian.
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.
When asked what should be Trump's first priority as president,
white evangelical voters most often picked health care (31 %), immigration (13 %), the economy (11 %), and unemployment (10 %).
When a believing friend wrote that the Bible did not apply to the character and conduct of a President, that is when I realized how deeply the White Evangelical Church of the United States had committed itself to its marriage to All Things Republi
When a believing friend wrote that the Bible did not apply to the character and conduct of a President, that is
when I realized how deeply the White Evangelical Church of the United States had committed itself to its marriage to All Things Republi
when I realized how deeply the
White Evangelical Church of the United States had committed itself to its marriage to All Things Republican.
Pew has released the findings of new research that shows that many
white evangelicals in America hold disproportionally negative views of their Muslim neighbors
when compared to the rest of American society.
When asked if they personally know a Muslim, 43 percent of
white evangelicals and 58 percent of black Protestants said yes, while 56 percent of
white evangelicals and 42 percent of black Protestants said no.
Among
white evangelical Protestants, 69 % say it's better for children if a parent is at home to focus on the family, and 26 % say children are just as well off
when their parents work outside the home.
The
evangelical bloc went crazy
when Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless dress — but now we have a First Lady in «that dump of a
White House» who posed nude while intimate with other women and apparently used to work for an escort service.