Tag: Evangelicals
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To some evangelicals, Palin’s career violates biblical teachings
Los Angeles Times: To some evangelicals, Palin's career violates biblical teachings In a white-steepled church along a stretch in picturesque canyon country, the preacher laid out the basic blueprint of a godly marriage: Husbands lead, wives submit. Speaking recently before hundreds of worshipers at Placerita Baptist Church in Newhall, guest preacher Chris Mueller affirmed the…
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Shift in Evangelical Votes?
Wall Street Journal: What Saddleback's Pastor Really Thinks About Politics 'Overhyped." That's how the Rev. Rick Warren describes the notion that the evangelical vote is "up for grabs" in this election. But what about the significance of the evangelical left, I asked the pastor of Saddleback Church after his forum with the presidential candidates last…
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Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love
New York Times: Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love At a New York or Los Angeles cocktail party, few would dare make a pejorative comment about Barack Obama’s race or Hillary Clinton’s sex. Yet it would be easy to get away with deriding Mike Huckabee’s religious faith. Liberals believe deeply in tolerance and over the last…
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Quiet Flirtation: Monasticism and Evangelicals
Breakpoint Worldview Magazine: Quiet Flirtation: Monasticism and Evangelicals About eight years ago, I found myself in a convent in Bogotá, Colombia. I had not planned to get me to a nunnery. But it just so happened that I had signed up for a women’s retreat with the Baptist church where I was serving with youth…
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Evangelicals, Progressives Seek to End Culture Wars
Christian Post: Evangelicals, Progressives Seek to End Culture Wars Leaders unite to find common ground on divisive issues. WASHINGTON – The line dividing evangelicals from progressives blurred Wednesday as members from both parties joined in a new mission to erase long-held stereotypes of one another and seek commonality on polarizing issues such as abortion, gay…
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Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold
Washington Post: Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold LONGWOOD, Fla. — At 8 on a Saturday morning, just as the heat was permeating this sprawling Orlando suburb, Denise Kirsop donned a white plastic moon suit and began sorting through the trash produced by Northland Church. She and several fellow parishioners picked apart the garbage to…
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For New Generation of Evangelicals, Falwell Was Old News
Washington Post: For New Generation of Evangelicals, Falwell Was Old News In January 2005, Time magazine published a cover story on the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. Jerry Falwell did not make the list. Neither did Pat Robertson and Bob Jones III. These leaders live on in the public imagination because they embody a…
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Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics
Christianity Today: Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics by Christian Smith (HT Presbyweb) American evangelicals, who profess to be committed to Truth, are among the worst abusers of simple descriptive statistics, which claim to represent the truth about reality, of any group I have ever seen. At stake in this misuse are evangelicals' own integrity, credibility…
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Go Figure
From Christianity Today: Go Figure. A few random stats. 50% Evangelicals who say the government should not fund faith-based organizations. 50% Evangelicals who say the government should distribute wealth more evenly in this country. …
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Spoils of Victory
From Christianity Today: Spoils of Victory In the immediate aftermath of the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress, conventional wisdom said many evangelicals had abandoned the GOP. News outlets and analysts eagerly described a "seismic shift" that pointed to the "end of the conservative pendulum swing" and a weakened Republican base. In a widely publicized Beliefnet…