«Despite the professed wariness toward Trump among many high -
profile evangelical Christian
leaders,
evangelicals as a whole are, if anything, even more strongly supportive of Trump than they were of Mitt Romney at a similar point in the 2012 campaign,» Pew stated.
The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC
evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high
profile of non «Baptist
leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and
evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of
Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.