Evangelicals

How California can vote for hope and change in one column and for discrimination and injustice in another is so far beyond my comprehension, I'm still shocked and nauseous.Do Californians not know from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are

Evangelicals claim to be pro-life, yet are pro death penalty and pro-war. Hypocrites. They claim to worship Jesus, but put their worship of the State first with its continuous stream of unjust murder. Jesus did not allow for killing or...

In the article entitled,"Evangelicals Weigh Election Issues," there is an interesting section regarding people's views of "evangelicals," that is both predictable and disquieting."One of the surprises of a new Ellison study [Ellison Research of Phoenix] is 'how much abuse is aimed at evangelicals,' noted company president Ron Sellers. 'Evangelicals were called illiterate, greedy, psychos, racist,

This article unwittingly highlights a problem that all of us who oppose Proposition 8 in California will find disquieting."...there are signs McCain is winning over a group that has regarded him with suspicion on grounds including his past criticism of Religious Right leaders and his support for stem cell research."A nationwide poll of registered voters by the Pew Research Center from July 31 to A

(Disclaimer: this is an attempt at humor so please take it in that vein.) The American Family Association thinks it has come up with the perfect solution for America’s current energy ‘crisis’: American Solutions for Winning the Future. But Evangelicals can go even farther if we want to realize immediate energy savings. [...]

In the book “How Wide the Divide,” Craig Blomberg from a Denver seminary and Stephen Robinson, from BYU (both have PhD’s in religion) attempt to “bridge the gap” between Evangelicals and Mormons.  The first step is to have a correct understanding of what the other believes.  The following is an excerpt from their book: Since very [...]

I grimaced a bit as the headline popped up in my news feed: "Evangelist Accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible." Across the blogosphere liberal secularists and theists alike were instantly all over Dr. James Dobson, head of focus on the family, citing this as another example of Right Wing Christianity.Ironically, minutes before reading the article I had listened to radio broadcast in which Dobson

I was surprised to see so little coverage of Barack Obama’s Father’s Day speech this weekend. In addition to speaking to a very serious epidemic in American society, Senator Obama’s speech was loaded with Biblical passages and references. Had it come from Governor Huckabee, I may have even said he went over the [...]

Take a look at this piece posted by Ben Smith at Politico. Stephen Mansfield supporter of George W. Bush and Tom Delay has penned a pro-Obama biography. Here's a quote..."Young Evangelicals are saying, 'Look, I'm pro-life but I'm looking at a guy who's first of all black-and they love that; two, who's a Christian; and three who believes faith should bear on public policy," Mansfield, who described

by Steven Waldman, president & editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com on the WSJ Political Perceptions: Conventional wisdom holds that John McCain is struggling to win evangelical voters. Evangelical leader Mark DeMoss predicted last week that he’d run weaker than any Republican since 1976 . . . Sen. McCain has been criticized by prominent Christian leaders such as [...]

In what has to be one of the most bizarre stories to emerge this year, it appears that evangelical Christians are upset that educated Americans find them ridiculously absurd and have decided to do something about it. They aim to change how they are perceived through a large-scale study of an "evangelical intelligentsia."Where do I start here? It sounds like evangelicals feel that they have been mi

 Take a look at the video above. The Christian Evangelical community seems to be waking from the zombie-like march they had undertaken falling in line behind the GOP of the Reagan-Bush years. This piece highlights the some of the new debates surrounding climate change, stewardship, and the struggle for the various religious communities in the country to find their political voice. 

In a new interview with Dan Gilgoff for BeliefNet's God-o-Meter, DeMoss explains the lack of religious enthusiasm for McCain and predicts a potential major shift to Obama. If he did get 1/3rd or more of the evangelical vote he will win by a blowout.read more | digg story

For conservative Christian activists, this month’s California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage provides an opportunity to rekindle interest in an issue that has fallen well behind the price of gas in the national consciousness.[...] But it won’t be easy, and not just because of pressing secular issues like the housing downturn and an unpopular war [...]

Evangelical Christians are banding together to support the We Get It campaign to turn the tide on the largely one-sided global warming debate. The group wishes to stop the global warming nonsense to help the world’s poor from having basic necessities, like food, taken from them [...]

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American televangelist John Hagee led several hundred flag-waving followers across Jerusalem, a colorful display of the growing alliance between Christian evangelicals and Israel. More...

Just because some white liberals are going out of their way to vote for Barack Obama for no other reason than that he happens to be half-black, some within the Evangelical leadership are once again beating on their drums about congregations being too split along racial and ethnic lines.

Good evening. Before I go I would like to respond to a comment made by Evangelicals For Mitt. I rejected it because I would like to come out in the open and respond to it. For the record this is exactly what was written: A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR HILLARY! Let me explain:Huckabee cannot win the election. Everyone should know this. What good is his Evangelical background going to do for us Evangelicals when he loses to Hillary in November?Outside of the Christian Right Huckabee is viewed as yet another Christian from the South with nothing else behind him. I like huckabee but Americans view him as Bush 2.0 and there is NO way Americans are about to put another Bush into office right now.PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE FOR HUCKABEE AND SEND HILLARY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE:http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/why.php Thank you for posting your comments. However I respectively disagree with them. Please do note that you have created a dialog. Any other comments from you will be ap

You are a 22-year-old conservatively-dressed female college student, strolling across campus on your way to class. Suddenly, a street preacher who has harassed you previously charges you, cocking his fist, and swinging it to stop inches from your face. He then calls you a whore.Such is the case described by Amy Mariani in The Oracle, the University of South Florida's school paper. The student described in this incident has filed assault charges against preacher, John M. Kranert, a regular fixture on campus.As vile as this incident sounds, it appears to be nothing new for Kranert.She [the student] said Kranert demeaned her on prior occasions by saying, "I can tell you've been with every man on campus by the way you stand," and asking if she got her name from Black Entertainment Television because of her caramel complexion. He didn't know her name, nor did he ask, suggesting the question was purely racist at its roots, according to the Oracle.Is Kranert merely exercising his right to

America's largest conservative organisation has called for the banning of the Harry Potter books and films after author JK Rowling revealed that main character Albus Dumbledore was a gay wizard.The Christian Coalition of America claims to have 2.5 millions supporters and describes its mission as "defending America's Godly heritage."

I stumbled across a good article today. It is always encouraging to find other like minded Christians. This article is entitled, "Why some Evangelicals are Throwing Out Birth Control". It is not a big indepth article however it is a good introduction. Maybe one day I will blog about our story and the scriptural mandate. Below are a few snippets from this article. Take a moment to follow the link to read the whole thing. All along there were families like ours, who somehow came to the conclusion that it might be best to buck popular wisdom – and even church culture – to put God in charge of their family size. The bottom line is this: If as Christians we are called not to be conformed to the pattern of this world (Romans 12:2), shouldn’t we question the worldly assumption that children are burdens rather than blessings? And if we did, wouldn’t it follow that our words would reflect that truth and that families would look different? Why Some Evangelicals are Throwing Out

The following is a mass email message sent out by Coral Ridge Ministries http://www.coralridge.org. Apparently, we have created a little a stir! Atheism is nothing new, we all know about it. But in the past 12 months there have been disturbing developments in this country. There is a new breed of atheists on the scene. They [...]

Obama: Faith Hijacked By Right Wing Evangelicals - Huffington Post

Evangelicals are unlikely to vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney because the former Massachusetts governor’s Mormon faith claims to be the only true Christian church, a Southern Baptist leader says. “I have a very difficult time with the perspective [the Mormon church holds] that, ‘we are the true expression of Christianity and all other forms [...]

Brian Benson, an eighth-grade student who won first place in the Life Science/Biology category for his project “Creation Wins!!!,” says he disproved part of the theory of evolution. Using a rolled-up paper towel suspended between two glasses of water with Epsom Salts, the paper towel formed stalactites. He states that the theory that they take millions of years to develop is incorrect. “Scientists say it takes millions of years to form stalactites,” Benson said. “However, in only a couple of hours, I have formed stalactites just by using paper towel and Epsom Salts.” Question #1: Since when did the formation of stone fall under the category of Biology? Don’t we have something called Geology/Earth Science that covers that? Question #2: Since when did legitamate scientists start using the age of stalactites to justify the age of the Earth? Question #3: How do Epson Salts (magnesium sulfate) even compare to stalactites (calcium carbonate)? Now I a

I received many thought-provoking comments in response to my recent summary of what I learned about evangelical Christians. In this post, I'd like to follow a particular concern raised in these comments - the idea that learning more about evangelical Christians and what they believe may be of little real-world value in figuring out how to deal with such people.I should say out the outset that I agree with this criticism, at least up to a point. Understanding what evangelicals believe, why they think they believe it, or even how they acquired or maintain such beliefs, offers little in helping me figure out how to live alongside them. Does this mean that such efforts are wasted?Because of my personal interests and background in psychology, I find learning about the evangelical mind to be quite fascinating even if it does not translate into action. This is one of my particular quirks, and I don't expect others to share it. I've always delighted in trying to understand the human mind an

The Box: Canadian “Crying Out Loud For Love”; ‘Closer Together‘ (1987) . Atheism Is Aboot Humiliation As Much As… …hyper-Evangelicalism is aboot self-gratification. Not believing in God does not make you an Atheist, to be an Atheist you must have a philosophy of believing faith in any God is wrong. People speak of “not knowing what we’re fighting for” in [...]

The Dali Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, is visiting the U.S. next month and a group of evangelical Christians are ready to save his eternal soul, before it’s too late. Before I continue with this ridiculous story, let me just splain something to those of you that...

Now it seems that even Fred Thompson's Christian credentials are being questioned. Thompson is a self-identified member of the Church of Christ, as straight-laced a Protestant denomination as I can think of. Who, exactly, are these people (James Dobson and his ilk) looking for? Grown-up politics is about finding the best of the available options. If Fred Thompson isn't good enough for them, one wonders who is.

The Republicans finally had a chance to get a candidate who would win in a landslide and abruptly halt the party's free fall.Leave it to the evangelicals to try to screw it up.The rousing support Mitt Romney received at CPAC this weekend gives me poise to believe Giuliani may not have the support of the right we thought he did. I'm not crazy about Giuliani, but I'm sure the evangelicals are not going to let the man who wins everybody's hearts run away with the election if he doesn't believe our government should force gays into the closet, force woman back into corsets and give guns to kids.Because those are the most important issues right now...there's no war gone haywire, there's no healthcare crisis, there's no immigration problem, no, gays, guns and abortion, that's what we should be concerned with.

Here's the text from a recent press release, via Grist: Leaders of the evangelical and scientific communities will announce an unprecedented joint effort to protect the global environment and advance policies that address some of the most pressing threats to our planet, including global warming, habitat destruction, pollution, and species extinctions. Spearheaded by the National Association of Evangelicals and scientists at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, the newly-formed collaboration is 28-members strong and growing. It's also been widely reported that the details of the collaboration will be announced at a press conference this Wednesday. See this article for more details.

A bronze sculpture [stands] at the entrance of the Museum. It details the development of man. Kenya's world-class collection of hominid bones - primates belonging to a family of which the modern human being is the only species still in existence - is at the centre of a silent but intense war being waged by a section of the evangelical churches. The priceless National Museums of Kenya* (NMK) fossils pointing to man's evolution risk being relegated to the abyss as a section of the Church renews its war on science insisting that the evolution theory contradicts the biblical story of creation. Bishop Boniface Adoyo** of Nairobi Pentecostal Church (NPC), Christ is the Answer Ministries, is championing the 'hide-the-fossils' campaign, which has left scientists and historians perplexed. ...[Evolutionary] theory says man evolved from ape-like furry creatures with tails which moved on four limbs. But Adoyo dismisses the theory as "mere speculations". He argues that the theory presents assum

NOTE: I didn't write this. This is a block email form they have on their site so you can email your friends. This is a very important and timely issue, and since I don't have your email addresses, here you go... "And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'" - Matthew 25:40 Evangelical Christians are uniting in an urgent effort to bring an immediate end to the genocide in Darfur. In recent weeks, evangelical leaders have discovered profound unity on this crisis. Believing that God was calling them to act, a number of those leaders began talking about how evangelical Christians could respond together to this call. Those conversations led to the creation of Evangelicals for Darfur, a campaign that brings together media, web, and grassroots advocacy to call for an end to the senseless suffering in Darfur. A broad and diverse group of evangelical leaders were eager to participat

A tip of the link to Michael Binder over at The Christian Left blog for this story from The Wshington Post. There are two things that struck me about the article, which I would urge you to read. First, at an attempt at "balance", the reporter, Caryle Murphy, managed to interview a conservative evangelical, Don Carson, from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School here in Illinois, who mentioned

In the Introduction to an important new book by J. Budziszewski that engages four distinct traditions of evangelical political thought, Michael Cromartie observes: "While appreciative of the contributions of each of these thinkers [Carl Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder], Budziszewski finds fault with each, to a greater or lesser degree, for failing to develop a systematic political theory as compelling as those offered by the secularist establishment. He suggests that evangelical political thought would be improved if it were informed by the tradition of natural law.” I couldn't agree more. But I'd like to take this a step further, or, at the very least, in a slightly different direction, and one that I'm sure Budziszewski would also find complementary: evangelical bioethical thought.There are some very good people and organizations at work in this field already, but, as with Protestant natural law thinking in general, evangelicals as a group mu

I missed this on my last post dealing with this subject, but it turns out the Inquisition--I mean the four ministers reviewing Ted Haggard's "immoral conduct" feel that Haggard is "completely heterosexual" because he only had homosexual relations with one man. From CNN:Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday's edition."He is completely heterosexual," Ralph said. "That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing." Ralph said the board spoke with people close to Haggard while investigating his claim that his only extramarital sexual contact happened with Mike Jones. The board found no evidence to the contrary.So, this sends a great message for homosexual evangelicals still in the closet: it's okay to have gay sex as long as it's only with one person.