Results tagged “evangelical” from Torch Leader News

Nearly halfway through his victory speech on Election Night in Chicago's Grant Park, Barack Obama reached out to those Americans who had voted for his opponent, John McCain.

Despite repeated government warnings during the Zambezi valley floods of 2007 and 2008, some people have returned to live in the most dangerous and flood-prone parts of the valley - the islands in the middle of the river.

At 4 on a Sunday afternoon, the nightclub is filled with twentysomethings. But they haven't come to drink, or to watch the flat screen TV. The draw is Revolution Ministries, a church service led by Jay Bakker, son of the fallen late-80s televangelists Tammy-Faye and Jim Bakker of The PTL Club fame.

Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith, were best-selling authors who were instrumental in linking the evangelical community with the anti-abortion movement.

Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.

Nothing was supposed to represent evangelicals' recent shift away from hot-button political issues more than megachurch pastor Rick Warren's summit with Barack Obama and John McCain in August. 

As the dust settles on Washington following the Barack Obama earthquake, one group more than any other is expecting to be out in the cold. 

Just as "race" has a whole new meaning in America this week, so, too, does "faith." For at least four decades, white evangelicals have been the religion-and-politics story in this country.