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Political issues draw religious leaders into public debate, urging them to speak out. Young evangelicals are shifting toward Democratic choices, breaking from older patterns. Christian schools are pictured as places where young people grow spiritually and learn to serve with purpose.

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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to…

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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

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I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

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In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the…

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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people…

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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old…

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A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development…

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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so…

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I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance,…

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Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more…

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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies…

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The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of…

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Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have…

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What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done…

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It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus,…

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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the…

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I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

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Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being…

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Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

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A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

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And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising…

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When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when…

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the…

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The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the…

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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to…

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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in…

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There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian…

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Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to…

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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can…

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If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly…

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When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans…

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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy…

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It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this…

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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and…

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

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Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me…

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related…

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective,…

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or…

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to…