Tag: Evangelical Protestant

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My former church is having a Reformation celebration honoring the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of his arguments upon the bulletin board of his day.  I’m not quite sure what I feel about the celebration. My faith tradition is indeed on the Protestant side of the Reformation.  I do see the good things to […]

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Evangelical voters are the subject of much attention in each election cycle, representing 20% of the electorate according to the Pew Research Center. In Part 1 (updated) we discussed the shortcomings in how evangelicals are defined and counted by political pollsters. In Part 2, we present a more accurate way to define who are these […]

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How evangelicals are defined, tallied, and tracked is an import definition during an election year. To define a religious group you must examine belief, behavior, and belonging. But pollsters only look at belonging which gives an inaccurate definition. They further winnow their political definition based on skin color. Just like all of American politics, we are herded […]

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We’re officially entering the mirrored fun-house. Check this out: “There is more support for official Roman Catholic Church ‘positions’ among evangelical protestants than Catholics”  So said the man from Public Policy Research Institute, as quoted in the liberal magazine The Atlantic and picked up by Pertinacious Papist: Preview Open

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