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" From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. "

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" Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church. "

" Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. "

" As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. "

" There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. "

" To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. "

" Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. "

" I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. "

" I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong. "

" I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. "

" I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. "

" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "

" Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' "

" The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. "

" I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems. "

" It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. "

" If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. "

" Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem. "

" In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living. "

" Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. "

" Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God. "

" While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does. "

" I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. "

" Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? "

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. "

" The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media. "

" I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city. "

" Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. "

" Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program. "

" I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! "