Evangelical

Source: abcnews.go.com --- 5 days ago
Obama and McCain to participate in forum with Rick Warren. ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 19 days ago
Published earlier this year by Cornell University Press, the book is Rice professor Ussama Makdisi's answer to the theory that Arabs and Americans are destined to hate each other. ...

Source: www.abc.net.au --- 3 days ago
John McCain and Barack Obama have appeared together for the first time during the presidential campaign. At a huge Evangelical church in California the two candidates were posed a series of often highly personal questions by the pastor. ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 3 days ago
Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., spoke Saturday to Barack Obama and John McCain at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 12 days ago
Evangelical leader Richard Land tells CBSNews.com that John McCain's vice presidential selection can either reassure conservatives or turn them off and calls it the most important decision he'll make. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 5 days ago
Tomorrow's "civil forum" at California's Saddleback Church will be a key moment in the Evangelical community's effort to define itself, an effort that could have a profound impact on the presidential race, writes Brian Montopoli. ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 2 days ago
Tom Christian is the kind of religious voter that John McCain and Barack Obama were courting when they went to church this weekend. Conservative. Republican. But open to either of them. ...

Source: www.csmonitor.com --- 13 days ago
Two days ago, something odd appeared on West Mount Vernon Street in Nixa, Mo. – a campaign office for Barack Obama. Nixa, a center of social conservatism, is one of the 11 communities that Patchwork Nation is watching during the campaign. It represents “Evangelical Epicenters,” places with high numbers of Evangelical adherents. In 2004, it went [...] ...

Source: weblogs.chicagotribune.com --- 12 days ago
Evangelicals would like McCain to pick someone like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for veep. (AP/Brian Wallace) by James Oliphant Richard Land, the Evangelical leader who earlier this week called Barack Obama "a first-class arsonist" in describing Obama's views on abortion, had some strong words for John McCain in an interview with CBS News. McCain and Evangelical Christians now are partners in a marriage of convenience. But Land, the said that could change if McCain blows his vice... ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 12 days ago
Another reason Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty could help John McCain with evangelicals, from today's New York Times: He also carries qualifications important to many conservatives... longtime attendance at a church with a pastor who leads the National Association of Evangelicals... ...

Source: dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com --- 13 days ago
I was emailing earlier this week with David Gushee, a professor at McAfee School of Theology in Georgia and author of The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center. He's plugged into Evangelical trends, and he had some things to say that the McCain camp really should worry about. When I asked him how McCain's doing among evangelicals, Gushee replied: I sense little white Evangelical enthusiasm for McCain, and don't expect a serious get out the vote effort from evangelicals for him. I sense sometimes high enthusiasm for Obama among younger center and left evangelicals, and of course high enthusiasm in the black church community overall. The deep structure of American politics, as well as the politics of race, makes me think that at best Obama will cut into the white Evangelical vote by five percentage points. Clearly Obama has the better religious outreach operation and is more articulate about his faith. I wrote about McCain and evangelicals in my column this week about Bush's Africa legacy and how it could help McCain among evangelicals. : I sense, though, that McCain and his folks really don't understand this movement and some of its shifts. As a result, that could really hurt him in November. If indeed he loses tive percent of evangelicals to Obama, that's a serious share of the GOP base going elsewhere. ...

Source: www.littlegreenfootballs.com --- 4 days ago
With almost 2,000 comments in the first two threads, here’s a wrap-up open thread... ...

Source: www.littlegreenfootballs.com --- 4 days ago
The Evangelical Faceoff is about to start. This isn’t a debate; McCain and Obama will be interviewed separately for an hour each by Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren. CNN is broadcasting the show live, from the Church in Orange County, California. Barack Obama will start. Here’s a first thread to discuss the event... ...

Source: www.littlegreenfootballs.com --- 4 days ago
In our first thread, we learned that Barack Obama is pro-choice but anti-abortion, pro-military but anti-war, opposed to evil, against torture (especially evil torture), against Clarence Thomas, against prostitution and human trafficking, against designing embryos for stem cell research and human cloning, pro-international community but in favor of the Bosnia intervention. Very, very pro-empathy, over all. He’s even against children becoming orphans. Here’s the thread for the John McCain portion of the Saddleback Church event, as Obama exits to a standing ovation. ...

Source: cbs2chicago.com --- 4 days ago
The Rev. Rick Warren is so prominent and respected that just being seen with him is a boon for any presidential candidate. For Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, their appearances at a forum Saturday night at Warren's Evangelical California megachurch bring risks along with rewards. ...

Source: www.theconservativevoice.com --- 18 days ago
America has gotten away from Biblical principles that guide traditional family values and a God fearing moral standard and has exchanged it for a secular, sin laden disaster called liberalism... ...

Source: www.politico.com --- 4 days ago
In an Ideas piece, Avlon says movement is delinking itself from religious right by engaging on climate change, AIDS. ...

Source: www.syracuse.com --- 19 days ago
Joseph McGarry, 30, started college planning to become a music teacher. He will be pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church. ...

Source: mnnonline.org --- 14 days ago
Italy (MNN) -- And finally, in Italy, while boasting a Christian population, very few Italians have a true relationship with Christ. However, a church in Palermo is praying that will change as they distribute 2500 copies of the Book of Hope . Since many in the church are teachers, they've introduced the book to the religion teachers. Now many have adopted the Book of Hope as the official religion hour book. Pray that many kids will respond to its saving message. ...

Source: capitalnews9.com --- 4 days ago
The race for the White House keeps getting tighter between Democrat Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain. The current hot topic on the trail isn't the economy or foreign affairs, it's faith. Capital Tonight's Erin Billups has more. ...