James Dobson
James Dobson is founder and former president and chairman of the board of Focus on the Family. In 2010, he founded a new ministry called Family Talk.
Tag: evangelicals
“Breaking the ‘Holy Hush'”
Read a January 2007 Sojourners article on evangelical resources on domestic violence.
“More churches calling for divestment from fossil fuel”
June 30, 2013, The Boston Globe article about mainline Protestant churches calling on their denominations to divest the assets from their endowments and pension funds from the fossil fuel industry as a symbol of acknowledgment of its role in climate change.
“Fossil fuels are a faith issue”
June 28, 2013, post in the “On Faith” blog on The Washington Post website by national evangelical leader Richard Cizik. Cizik outlines his conversion to belief in climate change and encourages all evangelical leaders to urge their parishioners to contact their elected representative and ask for action on climate change.
“Reversing the trend of teens leaving the church: Using climate change to reengage our youth”
June 11, 2013, Christian Post column by Deborah Fikes, the World Evangelical Alliance’s permanent representative to the United Nations. Fikes believes that support of efforts to combat climate change could help keep young people from leaving the church.
“The Great Warming”
The Great Warming is a 2006 documentary about climate change narrated by Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette. The film was endorsed by religious groups including the Evangelical Environmental Network and includes an interview with Richard Cizik, then-vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals and a major voice supporting “creation care,” a favored […]
“Is God Green?”
Is God Green is a 2006 documentary, one of three produced by journalist Bill Moyers for PBS as part of the series “Moyers on America.” In the documentary, Moyers investigates the role of evangelical Christians in the climate change debate. The website includes the documentary itself as well as links to numerous religion and environment […]
“Poll finds evangelicals stand apart on evolution, climate change”
Sept. 29, 2011, Religion News Service article posted the Public Religion Research Institute about a poll which finds that white evangelicals and members of the Tea Party are less likely to believe in evolution and climate change and its political implications for the 2012 election.
“White U.S. evangelicals most skeptical on climate change”
April 17, 2009, Reuters article citing a Pew Forum poll which shows that white American evangelicals are the most skeptical of human-induced climate change. The article includes a link to the full poll.