Emily McFarlan Miller, Author at Crux

President Trump promises support to military, evangelicals at 4th of July event

“Nice to win, isn’t it?” President Donald Trump said at a Fourth of July concert hosted by First Baptist Church Dallas. Trump went on to promise that he will not forget those who helped him win the presidency, especially the U.S. military and Evangelicals.

How Facebook is like church, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg

On occasion of the first Facebook Communities Summit, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg compared his company, which recently reached 2 billion users, to churches in the sense that they give a sense of community by expanding horizons and encouraging people to care about broader issues.

Analysis: Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts

A study by Bread for the World, a nonpartisan Christian anti-hunger group, found that the budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump for the year 2018 would force every religious congregation in the U.S. to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years.

Portlanders respond to killings with prayer and eclectic spirituality
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- June 4, 2017
Lizabeth Norton of Portland, a nurse educator for a drug company and a member of the Madeleine Catholic Parish, said the church felt like a safe environment “to come and be hurt and angry and try to understand. For me, the real takeaway is: Where can we have compassion and understanding? And it’s really through a faith-based understanding of forgiveness and mercy and understanding and love.”
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CBN television chief on Christians, Israel and Trump
- Interviews, Religion News Service
- May 25, 2017
Christian Broadcasting Network CEO Gordon Robertson talks about his own experience of Israel and that of his father and sons. He discusses what he thinks the Trump administration’s relationship will be like with the Jewish state, and the state of his father’s health.
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More education means less religious commitment… Unless you’re Christian
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- April 28, 2017
According to a recent study the more educated a person is, the less religious he or she likely will be… Unless you are Christian. A Pew report shows that Christians with higher levels of education are just as religious as those with less schooling.
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