February 21st marks two years since the world lost one of the most prolific gospel teachers in these many years, Evangelical Pastor Billy Graham. And even in his death, Graham's legacy of love for Jesus lives on.
February 21st marks two years since the world lost one of the most prolific gospel teachers in these many years, Evangelical Pastor Billy Graham. And even in his death, Graham's legacy of love for Jesus lives on.
In an open letter to the attendees of the National Prayer Breakfast, several young Evangelicals are calling for climate change action.
Based on this anecdotal evidence, I know that a lot of evangelicals will vote for Trump again. I’ve even met a few evangelicals who voted for a third-party candidate in 2016 but plan to vote for Trump in 2020 because he appoints conservative Supreme Court justices, fights for religious liberty (as defined by conservative evangelicals) and defends the interests of Israel. But I have also met people who voted for Trump in 2016 and are looking for a justification — any justification — to vote for a Democrat in 2020.
When Donald Trump announced that he was running for President in June of 2015, it would have been hard to predict that he would become the favorite candidate of evangelical Christians. Everything about the thrice-married billionaire seemed to run afoul of what evangelicals had professed to be looking for in a presidential candidate.
However, despite some detractors, the President remains popular with a large percentage of evangelicals. An October 2019 survey found that 82 percent of white evangelicals want Trump to be the Republican Party’s candidate for President in 2020, the most of any subgroup.
Here are five reasons that evangelicals love President Trump:
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