Thank God for the young Christian women who are committed to Biblical values personally and publicly. Intercede for them!

Young men and maidens together, old men and children! Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven. (Ps 148:12-13)

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2017 ushered in a political wakeup call for American women.

For women on the left, it was the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Nearly two-thirds of Democratic women—more than men or Republicans—say they are paying closer attention to politics with Trump in office, Pew Research Center recently reported.

For some women on the right, it was another landmark that took place around the same time: the Women’s March, which drew controversy for not including pro-life groups among its official partners. According to Pew, 40 percent of American women oppose abortion in all or most circumstances.

‘Since the Women’s March, Christian conservative women are realizing their voice isn’t being heard,’ said Kelsey Gold, a recent Liberty University grad who remembers first hearing about the event on her way home from Trump’s inauguration. ‘The voices that claim to speak for all women really didn’t.’

. . . Yet, Gold’s generation represents one exception to the pattern; unlike any other age group, millennial evangelical women were more likely than their male counterparts to vote for Trump, according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) provided to CT by Ryan Burge, politics researcher and blogger for the site Religion in Public.

In last year’s election, 73 percent of white evangelical women under 35 voted for Trump compared to 60 percent of white evangelical men of the same age. . . .

The national conversation tends to skip over how much this demographic—who came of age with mass tragedies like the Columbine shooting and 9/11—want a candidate who conveys a sense of protection in what they see as an ‘increasingly dangerous world.’

‘Trump’s more black-and-white description of these kinds of things—good guys/bad guys, ‘these are bad hombres’—plays to the security issue and is a definite contrast to President Obama’s policies and to a certain extent, Mrs. Clintons’,’ said Waller.

‘The progressive view of human beings is very different than what evangelicals and evangelical women in particular are imbibing,” he said. “A traditional evangelical theology does not advocate a progressive view of human beings, that we’re all getting better. A more traditional evangelical understanding that we’re all naturally depraved plays into a kind of need for government to restrain and protect.’” (Excerpted from Christianity Today, reporting by Kate Shellnutt.)