Evangelicals

Michelle Duggar, that woman with the magically expansive vagina featured on cable TV nature documentaries, just had her 19th premie last week. Not only does the incident involve genital stretching not seen since the heyday of the Jim Rose circus, it points to a larger trend. Evangelical Christians are reproducing at an alarming rate, far outstripping the fertility figures of their non-Evangelical neighbors. And that, say naturalists, is a...  

Charles Krauthammer is a syndicated columnist who is extraordinarily gifted, and who also happens to be Jewish. He said some remarkable things recently about Jewish attitudes toward evangelical Christians: Many Jews, particularly American ones, are nervous or scornful about the...  

Filed under: Religion, AbortionLast month, an impressive collection of Roman Catholic bishops, evangelical Christian leaders, and conservative academics gathered at the National Press Club in Washington to release a joint statement they called the Manhattan Declaration: A Call to Conscience, delineating what one signer calls "a line in the sand" on abortion, gay marriage, and religious freedom. Then the document promptly fell into a black...  

Homosexuality is already a crime in Uganda, with punishments going up to life in prison, but politicians in Uganda are looking to making life even worse for gays. Under newly proposed changes both "repeat offenders" and HIV+ gay men would be sentenced to death. Anyone who argues on behalf of equal rights for gay could go to jail for seven years -- and even if you simply know someone is gay but don't report it, that could mean prison time as...  

Two smiling child models featured on an atheist billboard are actually Evangelical Christians, it has been claimed. The boy and girl can currently be seen next to the slogan "Don't Label Me" on adverts funded by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and endorsed by Prof Richard Dawkins, the scientist and prominent atheist. The posters form part of a campaign urging parents not to define their children by their own faith, which some...  

Evangelical Alliance Ireland has controversially suggested that Christians should support a Bill that would extend the rights and privileges of marriage to homosexual couples who register their partnerships. The suggestion has drawn fire from other evangelical groups. The Irish Government’s Civil Partnership Bill would grant welfare and tax benefits on a par with marriage to homosexual and heterosexual cohabiting couples who enter a civil...  

A group of evangelicals comprised of scientists economists and theologians said the mainstream view of pending catastrophe caused by climate change is exaggerated They made the claim at an event Thursday just days ahead of a key UNsponsored climate change conference in Copenhagen  

This is great news, and I'm thrilled that Jonah, the OCA metropolitan, is a signatory: Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples. "We pledge to...  

Children on atheist billboards 'are actually Evangelical Christians' (Matthew Moore, 21 Nov 2009, Daily Telegraph) Two smiling child models featured on an atheist billboard are actually Evangelical Christians, it has been claimed. The boy and girl can currently be seen next to the slogan "Don't Label Me" on adverts funded by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and endorsed by Prof Richard Dawkins, the scientist and prominent atheist.  

"Eritrea has been cracking down on evangelical Christians and the government has already imprisoned other evangelical Christians. These women are just added on to the other evangelical Christians the government has thrown into prison," Racho ...  

It's been just nine years since dooms-dayers expected the new millennium to bring the end of the world, yet the cry of "Armageddon" still rings out. Last month alone, NASA had to allay fears of a 2012 end-of-the-world scenario. And why not? We all ...  

In a brief e-mail newsletter, International Christian Concern reported the women’s release without further details. “We would like to thank all of you for praying for these women and all Eritrean Christians,” said ICC President Jeff King, in ...  

Married for 25 years (1984), both his wife and he are committed Evangelical Christians. They have two daughters, Brittany and Larissa. Thune graduated with a B.A. degree in Business from Biola University, an Evangelical Christian college near Los ...  

Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, joined Paul de Vries, president of the New York Divinity School and leader of the New York Evangelicals, and Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the ...  

SAO PAULO -- About 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for money smuggling. Now in its 17th year, the ...