Tag: center for the study of evangelicalism
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National Day of Prayer coincides with scrutiny of evangelical Christianity in Colorado Springs
America’s great religious divide is coming to town. As an estimated 2 million Christians pray for the nation, its leaders and citizens on Thursday – including at three public gatherings in the Pikes Peak region where the sponsoring organization is based – a crowd is expected to attend the latest installment of the Center for…
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New Center for the Study of Evangelicalism at UCCS opens to explore intertwining of faith, politics
In the past two presidential elections, evangelical Christians have thrown their support behind former President Donald Trump in what some viewed as astonishing numbers. Trump procured 81% of the White evangelical vote in 2016 — much more than former President George H.W. Bush, a mainline Protestant whose theology and policies were interpreted as closely aligning…