{"id":34815,"date":"2022-09-10T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/some-uneasy-with-politics-in-the-pulpit\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:44:01","slug":"some-uneasy-with-politics-in-the-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/some-uneasy-with-politics-in-the-pulpit\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Uneasy with Politics in the Pulpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental shift is transforming the religious right, long a force in presidential politics, as aging evangelical leaders split on the 2008 race and a new generation of pastors turns away from politics altogether. The immediate short-term result could be a boost for former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who supports gay right and legal abortion. Long-term consequences could deny the GOP an essential building block previously used for capturing the White House five out of the last seven presidential races.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;evangelical&#8221; refers to Christians, which includes many denominations, but despite their diversity, evangelicals are a crucial Republican voting bloc. During the last three years, however, many Christian conservatives have begun to feel uneasy about politics and the pulpit.<\/p>\n<p>One-third of evangelicals under 30 told the Barna Group they are embarrassed to call themselves believers.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/some-uneasy-with-politics-in-the-pulpit\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental shift is transforming the religious right, long a force in presidential politics, as aging evangelical leaders split on the 2008 race and a new generation of pastors turns away from politics altogether. The immediate short-term result could be a boost for former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who supports gay right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/some-uneasy-with-politics-in-the-pulpit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Uneasy with Politics in the Pulpit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}