ellauri062.html on line 251: Whereas the states with the highest percentage of residents identifying as non-religious are the West and New England regions of the United States (with Vermont at 37%, ranking the highest), in the Bible Belt state of Alabama it is just 12%, and Tennessee has the highest proportion of Evangelical Protestants, at 52%. The Evangelical influence is strongest in northern Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, southern and western Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, and East Texas.
ellauri092.html on line 188: In the early 20th century, many of the splintered Methodist groups joined together to form The Methodist Church (USA). Another merger in 1968 resulted in the formation of The United Methodist Church from the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) and the Methodist Church.While United Methodist Church in America membership has been declining, associated groups in developing countries are growing rapidly.
ellauri092.html on line 196: Methodists stand almost alone among mainline denominations in not performing same-sex marriages, in contrast to the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the United Church of Christ.
ellauri093.html on line 207: Another less clear difference between assemblies lies in their approaches to collaborating with other Christians. Many Open Brethren will hold gospel meetings, youth events, or other activities in partnership with non-Brethren Evangelical Christian churches. More conservative Brethren tend to not support activities outside their own meetings.
ellauri108.html on line 170: 1968 saw the development of reggae in Jamaica, a musical style typified by slower, heavier rhythms than ska and the increased use of Jamaican Patois. Like calypso, reggae was a medium for social commentary, although it demonstrated a wider use of radical political and Rasta themes than were previously present in Jamaican popular music. Reggae artists incorporated Rasta ritual rhythms, and also adopted Rasta chants, language, motifs, and social critiques. Songs like The Wailers' "African Herbsman" and Peter Tosh's "Legalize It" referenced cannabis use, while tracks like The Melodians' "Rivers of Babylon" and Junior Byles' "Beat Down Babylon" referenced Rasta beliefs in Babylon. Reggae gained widespread international popularity during the mid-1970s, coming to be viewed by black people in many different countries as music of the oppressed. Many Rastas grew critical of reggae, believing that it had commercialised their religion. Although reggae contains much Rastafari symbolism, and the two are widely associated, the connection is often exaggerated by non-Rastas. Most Rastas do not listen to reggae music, and reggae has also been utilised by other religious groups, such as Protestant Evangelicals. Out of reggae came dub music; dub artists often employ Rastafari terminology, even when not Rastas themselves.
ellauri262.html on line 602: Presidentti Ronald Reagan lainasi Teippikirjaimet (The Screwtape Letters) -kirjaa kuuluisassa vuonna 1983 pitämässään puheessa National Association of Evangelicalsille.
ellauri391.html on line 250: Deformoidut kähmivät. Left to right at a 1956 Evangelical Lutheran Church annual meeting in Wuppertal are Upper Church Councillor (Oberkirchenrat) Joachim Beckmann (1901–1987), Hans Iwand, German theologian Wilhelm Schneemelcher (1914–2003), and Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886–1968).
ellauri398.html on line 992: Aslan is a former Evangelical Christian who now identifies as a practitioner of Islam. It is no surprise, Jeesuskin oli luopio. Critics of the Bible have often claimed that there is no record of a Roman census. But as others have rightly pointed out, there is a record of it: in Luke’s Gospel. Critics just don’t want to accept it.
ellauri420.html on line 273: With scandals reverberating throughout news outlets due to unconscionable behavior of pastors and priests within the Southern Baptist Church and Roman Catholicism, and the public repudiation of biblical theology by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the once unquestionably trusted office of holy ministry is now the object of suspicion and derision, which makes this book a timely resource. With the public feeling that they need to be protected from predator priests and heretical pastors, Senkbeil brings his readers—more pointedly, pastors and priests themselves—back to God’s purpose for the pastoral office (to manifest and distribute God’s love, care, and gifts to nubile boys and girls), the heart of pastoral formation (proximity and devotion to posteriors), and the source of all spiritual care—the gracious and merciful Jejune God. Senkbeil accomplishes all this without a hint of angst or edginess, but rather with the heart of a butt-a-loving predatory pastor.
ellauri453.html on line 186: Tapaa Usha Vance, Yhdysvaltain toinen nainen. She is a practicing Hindu, and her husband a Christian who was raised Evangelical but converted to Catholicism in 2019. Usha Vance is a vegetarian. At the 2024 Republican National Convention, she said her husband has "adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook food from my mother—Indian food." Vancet tapasivat opiskelijoina, kun he liittyivät keskusteluryhmään aiheesta "valkoisen Amerikan sosiaalinen taantuma". Yhdysvallat: Ihmisoikeudet Britanniassa ovat heikentyneet viime vuonna. Raportissa kritisoidaan sananvapauden rajoituksia Southportin iskujen ja aborttisuojavyöhykkeiden jälkeen. Raportissa viitattiin puskurivyöhykelakeihin, jotka kieltävät mielenosoitukset aborttipalvelukeskusten ulkopuolella. Vuosittainen raportti, joka tarkastelee maailmanlaajuisia ihmisoikeuksia, viittasi erityisesti sananvapauden rajoituksiin ja antisemitismin motivoimaan väkivallan uhkaan Britanniassa. Kolme nuorta tyttöä puukotettiin kuoliaaksi Taylor Swiftin tanssitunnilla heinäkuussa 2024 18-vuotiaan Axel Rudakubanan toimesta. Julkaisuja, joissa väitettiin hänen olevan turvapaikanhakija, joka oli saapunut Isoon-Britanniaan pienellä veneellä, jaettiin laajalti. Pääministeri Sir Keir Starmer lupasi, että tollaset veneilijät "kohtaavat lain täyden kovuuden". Kansalliskaartin joukot ilmestyivät Washington DC:hen pormestarin torjuessa "autoritaarisen painostuksen". Panssaroituja ajoneuvoja havaittiin tiistai-iltana Yhdysvaltain pääkaupungin kaupunkikeskuksissa ja turistikohteissa 2 tuntia sitten. Euroopan johtajat ovat varoittaneet Ukrainan rajojen muuttamisesta väkisin – kolme päivää ennen kuin Venäjän presidentti Vladimir Putin ja Yhdysvaltain presidentti Donald Trump pitävät Ukrainaa koskevan huippukokouksen Alaskassa. T-paitaisella venäjänjuutalaisella pikku standup koomikolla ei lie sinne asiaa. Lausunnon allekirjoitti 26 maan 27 johtajasta. Allekirjoittajien joukosta puuttui Unkarin johtaja Viktor Orbán, joka on pitänyt yllä ystävällisiä suhteita Venäjään ja on toistuvasti yrittänyt estää Euroopan unionin tuen Ukrainalle. Trump kysyi Orbanilta mitkä ovat Ukrainan zargat voittaa Venäjä. Viktor kysyi oletko tyhmä. Ukrainan armeija on vähätellyt raportteja Venäjän joukkojen läpimurrosta Donetskin alueen Pokrovskin logistiikkakeskuksen pohjoispuolella, mutta myöntänyt maan olevan "vaikean ja dynaamisen tilanteen" edessä.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 660: According to the Alliance Commission on Unity & Truth among Evangelicals (ACUTE) the majority of Protestants have held that hell will be a place of perpetual conscious torment, both physical and spiritual. This is known as the eternal conscious torment (ECT) view. Some recent writers such as Anglican layman C. S. Lewis[86] and J.P. Moreland have cast people to hell in terms of "eternal separation" from God. Certain biblical texts have led some theologians[who?] to the conclusion that punishment in hell, though eternal and irrevocable, will be proportional to the deeds of each soul (e.g., Matthew 10:15, Luke 12:46-48).
xxx/ellauri450.html on line 404: Evankelikaalisen raamatun tutkija Craig Blomberg julkaisi vuonna 2014 kirjan Can We Still Believe the Bible? An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions, joka sisältää pitkän vastauksen teokseen Misquoting Jesus, jossa huomautetaan, ettei mikään Ehrmanin työssä ole uutta raamatuntutkijoille! Ja että joka tapauksessa mikään kristinuskon pääsnoppi ei vaarannu näiden muunnelmien vuoksi. Blomberg kirjoitti myös, että Ehrman "on hylännyt evankelikalismin" yrittäen "elvyttää arvostustamme gnostilaisuutta kohtaan. On selvää, että hänellä on kova työ edessään."
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Converts to Roman Catholicism from Evangelicalism (39 sivua)
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Francis J. Beckwith : yhdysvaltalainen filosofi, Baylorin yliopiston professori ja Evangelical Theological Societyn entinen puheenjohtaja ; teknisesti ottaen käänteinen
xxx/ellauri455.html on line 1107: Audrey Assad´s mother was a virgin and her father is a Christian Surian-born refugee. She was raised Protestant, as part of the Plymouth Brethren denomination. Assad was raised in an Evangelical Protestant religious household; she reconfirmed her faith 2002 at the age of 19. Assad converted to Catholicism in 2007 in Florida. Assad has spoken in public (including in her concerts) about her addiction to pornography and masturbation, and has tried "confession, accountability and counseling" to overcome them. Didn´t work. Now she thinks it is just okay to wank looking at porno videos.
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