That's why last year before the election, I joined dozens
of evangelical leaders in signing a statement calling for reform to our immigration system.
A
number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»
Wallis, who has spearheaded a
group of evangelical leaders on immigration reform, said that Obama particularly mentioned the importance of faith leaders in the immigration debate.
As Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, news broke that
hundreds of evangelical leaders planned to meet with him — a sign that many of those leaders may ultimately support Trump.
The absence of support for Trump is similar to unscientific surveys
of evangelical leaders from the National Association of Evangelicals and World magazine that have consistently pointed to Rubio.
Books that over the last 50 years have altered the way American evangelicals pray, gather, talk, and reach out — not books that merely entertained.We asked
dozens of evangelical leaders for their suggestions, and they sent in their nominations.
During this year's primaries, DeMoss found himself addressing
audiences of evangelical leaders in which nearly everyone was rooting for another candidate: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry — anybody but Romney.
Fueled by a professoriate that embraces the same leftist agenda as that of their colleagues in the secular academy, these Christian professors are making great strides in reorienting the political leanings of the coming
generation of evangelical leaders.
In the process, he developed and cultivated an extensive
network of evangelical leaders and Christian businessmen who would sponsor and support his evangelistic crusades and who would cooperate with each other in myriad similar ventures.
Seven months beforehand, about 19 percent of this
pool of evangelical leaders told World that they would vote for Rubio, while 15 percent picked Bush and 14 percent chose Cruz.
Has this year's election caused a tidal
wave of evangelical leaders to opt out of the term, or is this one more conversation resulting in little change to widespread usage of the E-word?
CT has recently reported on a ruling on behalf of Indonesian Christians in New England who face deportation, the impact of the end of TPS protections on Salvadoran Christians in the US, and the
nomination of an evangelical leader to serve as the next director general of the United Nations's International Organization for Migration (IOM).
As
thousands of evangelical leaders from 200 nations prepare to convene in Cape Town on Sunday, it looks like the more than 200 delegates from China have slim odds of attending.
Hundreds of evangelical leaders, including Tim Keller and Max Lucado, took out a full - page ad in The Washington Post denouncing the protectionist executive order that put a moratorium on refugees entering the United States.
A strong majority of white evangelicals are pleased with Trump's performance as president so far, and
dozens of evangelical leaders, including advisers Robert Jeffress and Paula White, gathered at the White House for a dinner with Trump and vice president Mike Pence Wednesday night.
Jerry Falwell Jr. surely didn't expect the fallout he received when he introduced Donald Trump to a gathering
of evangelical leaders in New York City in late June.