evangelicals
Two evangelical seminaries sue to block vaccine mandates, citing religious freedom
By Bob Smietana — November 5, 2021
(RNS) — Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said he has encouraged people to get vaccinated but opposes mandates.
Study: Religion soothed evangelicals at start of COVID. Politics put them at risk.
By Bob Smietana — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — From the start, religion has divided how Americans respond to COVID.
Francis Collins ‘a bit’ frustrated with evangelicals amid COVID-19 vaccine push
By Adelle M. Banks — September 10, 2021
(RNS) — Collins said seekers of a religious exemption from new COVID-19 rules would ‘have to really come through with a coherent argument about why that applies in this place.’
NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’
By Bob Smietana — August 27, 2021
(RNS) — Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters, was fired Friday (Aug. 27) after refusing to say his pro-vaccine statements were mistaken.
André Mendonça, President Bolsonaro’s ‘terribly evangelical’ Supreme Court justice
By Eduardo Campos Lima — July 22, 2021
SÃO PAULO (RNS) — Mendonça’s nomination has been seen by many as a political maneuver by Bolsonaro to strengthen his ties with evangelicals, a significant and loyal voting bloc for him.
At 71, Christian author Philip Yancey still believes in amazing grace, despite the country’s divisions
By Bob Smietana — June 24, 2021
(RNS) — In a world filled with angry divides, Yancey is still focusing on grace and forgiveness and showing the world a better way to live.
Survey: Young, diverse generation of evangelicals shows growing ambivalence toward Israel
By Jack Jenkins — May 26, 2021
(RNS) — Among a racially diverse subset of young evangelicals, 42% said they supported neither Israel nor Palestinians regarding conflict in the region. A marked shift from previous years.
Meet the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist encouraging her fellow Christians to get vaccinated
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 19, 2021
(RNS) — Written in epidemiologist Emily Smith’s friendly, informational voice, the Facebook page has grown to more than 96,000 followers.
Franklin Graham urges evangelicals to get vaccinated before it’s ‘too late’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 17, 2021
(RNS) — 'My father was a firm believer in medicine. He believed in it, so he would have been a supporter — no question,' said Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham.
For evangelical leader Jamie Aten, advocating for vaccines led to a death threat
By Bob Smietana — April 27, 2021
(RNS) — Aten, who teaches at an evangelical college, has received swarms of angry anti-vaxxer emails — including one saying his work was ‘punishable by death.’
She swung from purity culture to hookup culture. Now she’s written a memoir on it.
By Yonat Shimron — March 31, 2021
(RNS) — Brenda Marie Davies has written a memoir she calls a cautionary tale about the damaging message of purity culture in which she takes an unflinchingly honest look at female sexuality.
Gallup: Fewer than half of Americans belong to a church or other house of worship
By Bob Smietana — March 29, 2021
(RNS) — While Americans still believe in God, a growing number have dropped out of organized religion.
‘Til Kingdom Come’ examines link between end-times theology and Israel politics
By Yonat Shimron — March 11, 2021
(RNS) — The new documentary by Israeli director Maya Zinshtein focuses on the complex alliance among evangelicals, Israel’s political establishment, its largest charity and the West Bank settler movement.
What Americans believe about violence against the government
By Ryan Burge — January 14, 2021
(RNS) — The relationship between partisanship and support for violence against government is clear. Church attendance does not appear to fuel the fire — nor tamp it down.
