Evangelicals

Evangelicals to McCain: "Are You Saved?"

2008-03-13T18:56:00.000-05:00

Religious right leader says McCain has ‘work to do’ to win evangelicals By Sam Youngman Posted: 03/12/08 07:30 PM [ET] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) must work hard to reach out to evangelical voters to get them “excited” about his candidacy, a leading social conservative figure said Wednesday. Family Research Council President Tony

McChurch in Flux!

2008-03-11T19:07:00.001-05:00

The Huckabee Perplex What does the failed presidential run of Mike Huckabee teach us about the standing of Evangelicals in politics today? A great deal, I think. And as I embark on two posts devoted to this issue permit me to conjure up a handy slogan. Repeat it to yourself like a mantra, meditate upon it while you're on the elliptical machine, set it to the melody of the song “Maria” from The

HWJV - How Would Jesus Vote (Not!)

2008-03-04T10:32:00.000-05:00

www.washingtonpost.comHow Would Jesus Vote?I'm an Evangelical -- and a Liberal. Really. By Amy SullivanSunday, February 24, 2008; B01 As an evangelical who worked in Democratic politics before entering journalism, I'm used to getting looks from liberals who are embarrassed for me when I use the E-word to describe myself. Confusion flickers across their faces as they instantly reassess my

Christianized Republican Party Gets Meaner

2008-01-01T13:43:00.000-05:00

Hard-liners for Jesus By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, December 19, 2007; Page A19 As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party. There's nothing new, of course, about the Christianization of the GOP. Seven years ago, when debating Al Gore,

McChurch Ignores Global Warming

2007-12-26T11:50:00.000-05:00

Opinion: Why are Christians ignoring the ultimate moral-values issue? By David Gushee Published: December 11, 2007 The data is in: Global warming is becoming the ultimate moral-values issue. Both religious and political leaders must mobilize immediately to address it. No society is more reluctant to accept these two claims than the United States. No religious community is less

Confronting McChurch With Its Bigotry

2007-12-06T12:45:00.000-05:00

Faith-based voting film in worksBy: Mike AllenDecember 5, 2007 11:26 AM EST An ecumenical, bipartisan team is heading into 10 early-voting states with a documentary about faith and politics that is loaded with provocative interviews in an effort to force viewers to confront biases they’re never realized.The film, to be announced Wednesday afternoon and released in theaters

McChurch - The Swing Vote

2007-10-21T19:00:00.000-05:00

Evangelicals Lukewarm Toward GOP FieldBy Michael D. Shear and Perry Bacon Jr.Washington Post Staff WritersFriday, October 19, 2007; A01 For months, Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and John McCain have courted evangelical Christians, meeting with religious leaders throughout the Midwest and the South. Today, thousands of Christian conservatives will gather

McChurch - ORU's 900 ft Jesus Has Clay Feet

2007-10-07T15:25:00.000-05:00

One by one, self-appointed agents of God and George W. Bush (Is there an echo here?) are showing signs of success fatigue. The latest is the scandal swirling around Richard and Lindsay Roberts of Oral Roberts University. Here are several of the dozens of allegations published by AP on October 6, 2007: _ A longtime maintenance employee was fired so that an underage male friend of Mrs. Roberts

McChurch - "We Want Moore - Moore Foolishness"

2007-10-05T08:33:00.000-05:00

October 1, 2007Will Giuliani Face A Roy Moore Challenge? (AP) Back in 2004, there was a mini-movement to draft Judge Roy Moore as a presidential candidate. Moore, the former head of the Alabama Supreme Court,

McChurch - Welcome to Armageddon! We're Sorry! We'll Try And Do Better Next Time

2007-10-04T18:21:00.000-05:00

The following article is located at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/september/35.90.html DO LIKEWISE Our Teachable Moment The Iraq war calls for some serious rethinking by Christians. David. P. Gushee | posted 9/26/2007 08:

McChurch - Rubbing Shoulders With the "Enemy"

2007-09-27T09:28:00.000-05:00

MSNBC.com HideAdFrame('StoryToolbarSponsorship');ChangeSponsorAdTitle(); Democrats Seriously Court Evangelicals For 25 years, evangelicals have voted Republican. But the Democrats are courting, and their efforts may have a prayer. By Eve Conant Newsweek Oct. 1, 2007 issue - Richard Land had never met one-on-one with a chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The Tennessee

McChurch Goes Green...Whatever!

2007-09-19T12:48:00.000-05:00

Tuesday September 18, 2007 Some Evangelical Leaders Go Green As Skepticism Lingers By Adelle M. BanksReligion News Service When Bishop Harry Jackson saw melting glaciers and devastated forests on a recent trip to Alaska, he decided that global warming should be a higher priority on his list of key issues for evangelicals. "I thought the globe was warming, but I thought that there was a whole

McChurch - The Values Voter Presidential Debate

2007-09-17T20:25:00.000-05:00

A Crisis of Political Faith for Evangelicals By Shawn Zeller | 9:40 AM; Sep. 17, 2007 | GOP hopefuls will get no free passes this time from a religious base angered by tepid progress on its agenda In almost every presidential election of the past three decades, social conservative and evangelical voters didn’t need anything like their own debates or special summit meetings with the

McChurch - Tiring of Morality?

2007-09-15T07:00:00.000-05:00

www.saturdaygazettemail.comSeptember 12, 2007Shift? · Fading GOP base ALTHOUGH cultural tides are difficult to discern, there’s growing evidence that the Republican Party may be losing part of its most loyal element, white evangelicals. Several new studies report loosening of the bond between the GOP and hardline believers who denounce gays, abortion

McChurch - Putting Their Faith in All the Wrong Places

2007-09-11T15:34:00.000-05:00

Evangelicals Disappointed, Political Faith Shaken Religious Leader Expresses Concern About 2008: 'If We Don't Get Our Act Together, We Could Lose Our Voice' By MARCUS BARAM Aug. 31, 2007 — As the Republican party reels from another scandal involving sex, several evangelical leaders say they're worried about losing their political clout as the faithful become disillusioned with the immoral

McChurch - Denial is a River in Iraq!

2007-09-11T12:33:00.000-05:00

AP Poll: Most See Iraq War As Failure By ALAN FRAM – September 11, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) — The public sees the Iraq war as a failure and thinks the U.S. troop buildup there has not worked, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll suggesting the tough sell President Bush faces in asking Congress and voters for more time. The pessimism expressed by most people — including significant

McChurch - Era of Racial and Cultural Profiling

2007-08-29T18:36:00.000-05:00

USA TODAYAugust 29, 2007Immigrants become target for all of society's ills By Kirsten A. Powers What Ronald Reagan once referred to as the "illegal-alien fuss" has fulminated into a frenzy of demonizing where behind every social ill lurks a brown-skinned illegal immigrant. Reagan famously provided amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in 1986, appreciating America's historical

McChurch - Broadening its Agenda to Gays

2007-08-29T08:04:00.001-05:00

Posted on Tue, Aug. 28, 2007 Coral Ridge Presbyterian puts politics aside for now BY DONNA GEHRKE-WHITE, HANNAH SAMPSON AND ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ With the retirement of the Rev. D. James Kennedy, its voice for nearly 50 years, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church will move away from its founder's political activism to focus on finding a successor and

McChurch - US Senator Fined for Tapping Foot...2003 Received Christian Coalition 100% Voting Record

2007-08-28T09:24:00.000-05:00

Sexuality In 1982, (Sen.) Craig (R-Idaho) went on network news to deny rumors involving cocaine and sex with male congressional pages.[19] In October 2006, gay activist blogger Mike Rogers published allegations on his blog that Craig was homosexual; Craig called the allegation "completely ridiculous".[20] In an interview on May 14, 2007, with the Idaho Statesman newspaper, Craig responded to

MChurch - Kill or Convert?

2007-08-15T11:26:00.000-05:00

Kill or Convert, Brought to You by the Pentagon By Max Blumenthal The Nation Tuesday 07 August 2007 Actor Stephen Baldwin, the youngest member of the famous Baldwin brothers, is no longer playing Pauly Shore's sidekick in comedy masterpieces like Biodome. He has a much more serious calling these days. Baldwin became a right-wing, born-again Christian after the 9/11

McChurched Caught in a Moral Bind

2007-08-07T19:57:00.000-05:00

Article published Aug 6, 2007Conservatives: GOP straying on social issuesAugust 6, 2007 We have the “strange bedfellows” breaking camp here…National Republican Party officials, that element that appreciates the Christian Right without subscribing to its core beliefs, is worried that Christians may not go along with new directions in the country…The question will remain unanswered for awhile:

McChurch - Spinning Out of Control in Zion

2007-07-31T19:15:00.000-05:00

MESSAGE FROM DAVID BROG, CUFI'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I have noticed that a very common defense mechanism with the Christian Right is, “They will not succeed.” I suppose that is what was said about Gideon – “He will not succeed.” Joshua fell under the same verdict…Jesus, with only a handful of disciples scattered to the four winds, was finished with the crucifixion, so thought the religious

Political Pandering to Evangelicals

2007-07-16T13:44:00.000-05:00

The Brody File David Brody CBN News Senior National Correspondent Is the Evangelical Movement at a Crossroads? Hanna Rosin: A new evangelical establishment Schools like Monica Goodling's turn out scrubbed young ideologues who are ready to serve their nation. Hanna Rosin Published: May 30, 2007 It is interesting how this article seems to want to mainstream what we may need to coin as “