Other networks
of evangelical leadership exist which might, after prayerful consideration, coordinate their energies to promote many of the initiatives generated in ESA.
But they do not find comfort, much
less evangelical leadership, from priests who imagine they can avoid clericalism by unwittingly denying the truth of their own sacramental vocation and its distinctiveness.
In the same interview, he answers that he does now define himself as a Christian, and he was recently the headline speaker at the
American evangelical leadership event, Catalyst.
As I scour the landscape
of evangelical leadership (authors, speakers, mega-church pastors), it is difficult to find a man like Francis.
The evangelical leadership are men, the bible was written by men, and enforced by men.
Just yesterday, when I raised some challenges about
an evangelical leadership conference in which just 4 out 112 speakers were women, another writer characterized the situation as a «meltdown... from which no one has seemed to emerge more Christlike» and then issued a call for unity, complete with a prayer.
What matters here is that
the evangelical leadership at Wheaton takes their statement of faith seriously and, well, they are unsure that Dr. Hawkins» statements align with their beliefs.