Tag: Evangelicals

Evangelicals Can’t Bridge Racial Divides With Reconciliation Overtures Alone

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June 5, Professor Stephanie Martin, an assistant professor of communication and public affairs at SMU Dallas, for a piece pointing out that Christian Evangelicals must go beyond “reconciliation” if they want to close the racial divide with African American constituencies. Published in Inside Sources and its affiliates. https://bit.ly/3gR5Lgd  https://bit.ly/3cMtsTB

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Evangelical leaders hesitated to criticize President Trump after he ordered police and military authorities to use tear gas and rubber bullets to remove peaceful protesters from Lafayette Park near the White House so he could get his picture taken in front of nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Trump’s purpose in creating the photo op was not immediately clear, but it hardly seems a stretch to imagine it was a signal to his most ardent Christian supporters that they could count on him to restore law and order to America’s streets. . .

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The danger of Nikki Haley and Rick Perry saying Trump’s presidency was ordained by God

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Dec. 20, Stephanie Martin, assistant professor of communication and public affairs at SMU Dallas, for a piece challenging Evangelical Christians to be more discerning , Today: http://bit.ly/2MfPdRr

When former Energy Secretary Rick Perry made headlines last month on Fox News for saying President Donald Trump is “the chosen one” who was “sent by God to do great things,” it wasn’t the first time someone argued that the commander in chief was commissioned on high.

Nor was it the last. Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the Christian CBN News that Trump’s election made plain “that everything happens for a reason … I think God sometimes places people for lessons and sometimes places people for change.”

The Perry and Haley TV interviews exposed the ongoing tension in American political culture between those who believe that divine purpose underwrites everything that happens in politics and those who see human agency at work. . .

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