How Trump and Harris fared with faith voters in 2024
When Donald Trump won reelection last week, exit polls show he was propelled to victory by gains in a wide swath of demographic groups and buffered, once more, by strong support from Christian voters.. In fact, Trump made gains in nearly every category of self-identified Christians running against Kamala Harris compared to his run in 2020 against Joe Biden.
Sunday came for Tony Campolo – Baptist News Global
Nov 20, 2024 · Tony Campolo, an influential Christian pastor, professor, author, speaker, social activist and adviser to President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday, Nov. 19 at age 89. He was surrounded by family at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, the Philadelphia retirement community where he and his wife, Peggy, lived since 2006, following a debilitating 2020 stroke that abruptly ended his speaking career.
More evangelical leaders on board Trump train for 2024
Jan 24, 2024 · Ben Carson, the doctor and author who served in Trump’s cabinet as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has been campaigning for Trump and is rumored to be up for a position in the next Trump administration should there be one.. Trump “has just been a friend of religion and of faith,” said Carson, one of the few former Trump cabinet members to back the former president, while 17 ...
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
Dec 13, 2022 · For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020.. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 ...
Understanding the David Platt story – Baptist News Global
Oct 28, 2024 · The chairman of trustees — and chairman of the presidential search committee — at the IMB when Platt was elected was David Uth, pastor at First Baptist Orlando, Fla. Uth’s second in command at First Baptist Orlando was Danny De Armas, who simultaneously chaired the trustee board at the SBC North American Mission Board.
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Prominent Texas church quietly quits the SBC
Oct 28, 2024 · Note: This story was updated Oct. 29 with additional comments from church leaders. One of the most prominent Baptist churches in Texas quietly quit the Southern Baptist Convention Oct. 27 — part of an unnoticed trend that’s hard to document on a national level.. While updating its bylaws, Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas removed reference to …
Why Christians should support reproductive justice, including …
“Reproductive justice” is a term coined by Black women activists in the 1990s to recognize the intersections of race, class, sexuality, nation and gender in reproductive health and decision-making.. SisterSong, an organization that fights for reproductive justice, defines the term as “ the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not …
Making sense of denominational decline and church shifting
Jun 3, 2024 · Evangelical Protestantism continues to be a growing force in American Christianity, as Mainline Protestant denominations continue to decline, but where are these converts coming from?. There is very little data showing where Christians go when they convert away from a tradition or denomination.
Faithful America inducts 12 more into its ‘false prophets’ hall of fame
Nov 6, 2023 · Two weeks into his new job, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives already has made the list. Although it’s a list he might not want to be on. Mike Johnson is one of 12 “false prophets” highlighted this year by Faithful America, the organization behind the “False Prophets Don’t Speak for Me” campaign. The 12 new inductees into the hall of …