Ben Carson
Ben Carson, Seventh-day Adventist, tests positive for coronavirus
By Jack Jenkins — November 9, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Seventh-day Adventist website stresses health as a spiritual concern, saying, 'we believe God calls us to care for our bodies, treating them with the respect a divine creation deserves.'
Promise Keepers stages a comeback on screens instead of in a stadium
By Adelle M. Banks — July 31, 2020
(RNS) — ‘What seemed like a huge disappointment ended up being a huge blessing,’ said its CEO about a virtual event that organizers expect will reach more than a million men across 65 countries.
Conservatives flock to ‘values voter’ summit, but message may be mixed
By Jack Jenkins — September 21, 2018
(RNS) — Evangelical conservative Christians may find themselves in a quandary this year, championing an administration that shares their public policy goals but may fall short of their private values.
Why white evangelicals voted for Trump: Fear, power and nostalgia
By Jana Riess — July 2, 2018
(RNS) — Eighty-one percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, but why? Especially when there were three experienced evangelical candidates in the primary season? Historian John Fea traces a legacy of fear, power, and nostalgia among white evangelical voters.
Could armed Jews have prevented the Holocaust?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — The idea that Jews with guns could have made any meaningful resistance is the cruelest, most cynical, most ignorant alternative fact there is.
Ben Carson interprets Jewish history
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 8, 2017
Ben Carson taught us about slavery and immigration. Imagine how he could handle Jewish history.
Trump advisers: The faith factor
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 13, 2016
(RNS) Many of Trump's new appointments are people of faith. Some are supported or opposed by different faith groups; others have made public statements or taken actions regarding different faith groups.
Evangelicals in Trump’s Cabinet: Choice of Pruitt alarms scientists, environmentalists
By Kimberly Winston — December 8, 2016
(RNS) Could Trump's Christian Cabinet picks have a chilling effect on the teaching of science in public schools?
Trump calls for new civil rights agenda in visit to black church
By guest — September 3, 2016
Trump in recent weeks has been trying to shore up his support among minority voters.
Ben Carson tries to link Hillary Clinton to the devil
By Lauren Markoe — July 20, 2016
(RNS) Ben Carson accuses Hillary Clinton of choosing a Lucifer-loving mentor.
Neither coronation nor inquisition expected when Trump meets evangelicals
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 16, 2016
(RNS) About 900 conservative Christians, mostly evangelicals, are expected to attend "a conversation" with Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
In a first, Trump PAC reaches out to Amish
By Kimberly Winston — May 26, 2016
(RNS) Will the bearded, the bonneted, the barn-building Amish vote for the clean-shaven, combed-over, casino-building Donald Trump?
Donald Trump plays the persecuted Christian card
By Jonathan Merritt — February 26, 2016
When Donald Trump insinuates the federal government is mistreating Christians, many conservative religious voters say "amen."
Clinton takes Nevada; Trump conquers South Carolina and Bush drops out
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — February 20, 2016
(RNS) S.C. evangelicals divided votes among tough-on-terror Trump, son-of-a-pastor Cruz, and Catholic Rubio. Race and ethnicity mattered more in Nevada.
5 faith facts about Ben Carson: Retired neurosurgeon, Seventh-day Adventist
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2016
(RNS) Ben Carson withdrew from the 2016 GOP race on March 4, in the wake of losses on Super Tuesday
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