The survivor suing the Memphis diocese, Turner Casey, spoke with Katherine Burgess in a story about how the diocese had not publicly identified Wiggs on a list of credibly accused priests. After that story, additional victims have come forward about Wiggs. www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/l...
Meanwhile, instead of abortion, pastors who were women, Black and affiliated with mainline Protestant groups said in the Lifeway Research survey “personal character” was important to determine which candidate they vote for. www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
New findings from Lifeway Research and Pew Research Center surveys paint picture of religious voters' support for Trump vs. Harris and top issues.
Lifeway Research found 29% of pastors planning to vote for Trump said abortion is an important issue. That group was mostly comprised of older, white, male, evangelical pastors. www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
New findings from Lifeway Research and Pew Research Center surveys paint picture of religious voters' support for Trump vs. Harris and top issues.
Abortion doesn’t seem to be the most dominant issue for evangelical Christians and white Catholics. It’s unclear how much of that is a response to Trump’s recent comments on abortion, which some conservative Christians have criticized (tennessean.com/story/news/p...).
Evangelical Christians urged the GOP not to soften platform on abortion. Now, Trump and Vance are reiterating message of leaving abortion to states.
The new Lifeway Research and Pew reports show party affiliation is the factor most indicative of religious voters’ support for Harris versus Trump, meaning those voters care about a variety of issues important to Democrats and Republicans. www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
New findings from Lifeway Research and Pew Research Center surveys paint picture of religious voters' support for Trump vs. Harris and top issues.
In the recent Pew data, 86% of Black Protestants and 65% of Hispanic Catholics planned to vote for Harris. Compared to that same data for Biden in Pew’s previous report, Harris saw an uptick of 9 percentage points for Black Protestant voters. www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
New findings from Lifeway Research and Pew Research Center surveys paint picture of religious voters' support for Trump vs. Harris and top issues.
The Lifeway Research survey of pastors found 50% of respondents planned to vote for Trump while 24% planned to vote for Harris. Among the pastors who planned to vote for Harris, 71% were Black and 21% were white. www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
New findings from Lifeway Research and Pew Research Center surveys paint picture of religious voters' support for Trump vs. Harris and top issues.
The Pew report is based on a survey from Aug. 26 to Sept. 3 of voters representing various religious traditions (pewresearch.org/short-reads/...www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
Among White evangelicals, support for Trump is higher among those who attend church regularly than among those who don’t.
The Lifeway Research report from today is based on responses collected between Aug. 8 to Sept. 3 that specifically surveyed pastors across different Protestant denominations (research.lifeway.com/2024/09/17/h...www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...
Almost all pastors say they plan to vote in the 2024 presidential election, but a quarter refused to say who they’ll cast their ballot for.
Second, the ERLC trustees sought to work through any discord that had been at play with President Leatherwood's near ouster. That push to be synchronized will factor into the entity's ability to manage potentially new work (i.e. see note on abuse reform). www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...