Ever since the 1980s and the Moral Majority, evangelicals have been loyal to the Republican Party, giving their votes in return for promises on abortion, family, and other arenas of policy which promised them protection for their churches and their priorities.
I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
'God Loves Uganda' is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting 'sexual immorality' and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.
You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
I'm an orthodox Christian. When people ask me if I'm a Christian, I always want to qualify and know what they mean by that. I'm not a Republican, and I'm not right wing. I'm not a dispensationalist. I don't think the world's about to end.
I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
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.
This Republican party of Lincoln has become a theocracy.
Conservative Christianity is headquartered in the South.
I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.
I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Christian is a term used to describe a broad range of those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I think of myself at an Evangelical Christian and regularly attend a Pentecostal church.
I am evangelical and believe much in God.
I began filming 'God Loves Uganda' by first meeting some of the Ugandan and American missionaries who have helped create Uganda's evangelical movement. They were often large-hearted. They were passionate and committed.
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
