Posts Tagged ‘ evangelicals ’

A conflict of radical individualism, Christian values and the political right?

November 18, 2011
By tomsander
A conflict of radical individualism, Christian values and the political right?

Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, writes in the Washington Post on 11/10/2011:

Excerpt:

As an evangelical Christian who believes the Republican Party does not have a monopoly on moral values, I …

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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life interviews David Campbell

January 10, 2011
By tomsander

Excerpt of conversation with David Campbell:

Before, I get to the uniting half of our subtitle  , I want to talk a little bit about how religion has divided us as a…

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Washington Post review of American Grace

December 13, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Rachel Ford James

Excerpt of Washington Post review of American Grace:

Even as a religion reporter, I was surprised by some of the findings in this hefty new book about American religion by political scientists …

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The Economist: Evangelicals Looking for a new Leader

December 2, 2010
By tomsander

Glenn Beck at Lincoln Memorial-photo from Wikimedia Commons

The Economist’s story, explains how US evangelicals, in a troubled time are looking for a more charismatic and likable leader than Glenn Beck.  Among the troubling evidence for evangelicals are American…

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Pastor Bob Cornwall on 3 religious seismic shocks discussed in American Grace

December 1, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo of earthquake by UNDP

America’s Religious Identity — Boom, Shocks, and After-shocks (Part 1)

America’s Religious Identity — Boom, Shocks, and After-shocks (Part 2 — Long 1960s)

America’s Religious Identity — Boom, Shocks, and After-shocks (Part 3 — First…

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Similarities of Evangelicals and Mormons

October 25, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Roy Stead

Excerpt:

As a group, they tend to be conservative, church-going, Republican. They believe it’s important to share their faith in Jesus – often on overseas mission trips – and call themselves champions of…

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Dave Campbell discusses "A New Kind of Christianity"

March 31, 2010
By tomsander

American Grace co-author Dave Campbell was recently interviewed by NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty about Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity. McLaren rejects the old view that he was brought up with of “a God who needs…

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