Today the General is a baptized Christian evangelist.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

But here she became an evangelist, recruiting others to get the fax machines because it made their purchase more valuable.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

And I decided that I was never going to go on TV, because I didn't want to be a celebrity, I didn't want to be a, quote, evangelist, televangelist that's not my thing.

On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven and abode with him.

And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven and abode with him.

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist. That is why he barged his way past Hillary Clinton, the consummate operator of the party machine.

All forms of religious fundamentalism rely on the notion of a pure religion independent of cultural variations and influences. Today's Islamic revival shares the dogmatism, communitarianism, and scripturalism of American evangelist movements both reject culture, philosophy, and even theology to favor a literalist reading of sacred texts and an immediate understanding of truth through individual faith.

We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America. Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.

Perhaps people respond more generously to the victims of natural disasters than they do to those in extreme poverty because, after a natural disaster, we tend not to blame the victims. We seem to accept that to be struck by an earthquake, a tidal wave, or a hurricane is just bad luck (unless, as the American evangelist Pat Robertson suggested after the Haitian earthquake, your ancestors made a pact with the devil in order to free themselves from colonial rule).