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Evangelicals issue principles on benefits, challenges of artificial intelligence
By Adelle M. Banks — April 12, 2019
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The statement aims to help evangelicals proactively navigate their use of technology like smartphones and virtual assistants such as Siri or Alexa from a scriptural perspective that focuses on ethics about human dignity.
How the White House is courting evangelicals on its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 27, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — A March 7 meeting at the White House is just one of a series of meetings, dinners, lunches and coffees the Trump administration has had with evangelical leaders as it prepares to release its peace plan.
‘Nones’ now as big as evangelicals, Catholics in the US
By Jack Jenkins — March 21, 2019
(RNS) — "Nones have been on the march for a long time now," Ryan Burge said.
Evangelicals and Muslims see similarities in faiths and favor closer ties, survey says
By Aysha Khan — March 20, 2019
(RNS) — As a growing movement of evangelical Christian leaders is working to improve Christian-Muslim relations, a new study finds that more than 3 in 4 U.S. evangelicals say they never or infrequently interact with Muslims.
There are no real evangelicals. Only imagined ones.
By Kristin Kobes Du Mez — February 6, 2019
(RNS) — There are, in fact, many evangelicalisms and each has a different center and different boundaries.
Yechiel Eckstein was a bridge to Christian evangelicals
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 6, 2019
"The whole world hates us." Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein proved that wrong.
DeMoss, exec with ‘all-access pass’ to evangelical history, to close firm
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 16, 2019
(RNS) — After nearly 30 years, DeMoss, the nation's largest PR agency serving faith-based organizations and causes, is closing its doors.
A push for compromise on LGBTQ protections may tear evangelicals apart
By Yonat Shimron — December 20, 2018
(RNS) — The National Association of Evangelicals and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities want protections for sexual orientation and gender identity as well as strong religious exemptions. But will evangelicals embrace such a compromise?
French evangelicals face backlash at home after success of Trump and Bolsonaro abroad
By Tom Heneghan — December 12, 2018
PARIS (RNS) — French evangelical leaders have had to distance themselves from their cousins in the U.S. and Brazil — saying that evangelical support for Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro hurt their ministry.
The quiet, steely faith of George H.W. Bush
By Stephen Mansfield — December 4, 2018
(RNS) — For the late George H.W. Bush, faith was a private anchor of strength. Boasting about it was a kind of sin.
For most Americans, new research says, family comes first
By Yonat Shimron — November 20, 2018
(RNS) — But among those who do find a great deal of meaning in their religious faith, more than half say it is the single most important source of meaning in their lives.
Is American religion exceptional? Maybe, maybe not
By Yonat Shimron — November 19, 2018
(RNS) — Dueling sociologists can't agree on whether the most intensely religious segment of the American population is shrinking.
U.S. evangelical delegation meets with crown prince of Saudi Arabia
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 2, 2018
(RNS) — The meeting comes one month after the death of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi, for which Saudi Arabia has acknowledged responsibility.
How Howard Thurman can help Christians heal their political divides
By Jemar Tisby — October 16, 2018
(RNS) — In our current political morass, we need to constantly remind ourselves that Christians, and their politics, should bring relief and flourishing to those whom the world counts as the least.
Trump White House faith outreach a picture of selective access
By Adelle M. Banks — October 5, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The White House says its administration 'continues to engage hundreds of faith leaders on various issues that directly impact their communities,’ but some say they’re not in that number.
