LIVE: How Should White Evangelicals Respond to President Trump?

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🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Perhaps no group can take more credit for Donald Trump’s victory than the 81 percent of self-identified white evangelicals who elected him into office last November. Following an inauguration that featured evangelical leaders Franklin Graham and Sam Rodriguez, Trump has named evangelicals to more than half of his cabinet positions and fulfilled a key campaign promise with the arrival of Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. Yet, for Trump’s white evangelical critics, concerns about his treatment of refugees and immigrants, among others, have persisted. Many are also worried about white evangelicalism’s witness to both fellow Americans and evangelicals of color. Earlier this week, Quick to Listen co-host and CT editor-in-chief Mark Galli led a discussion with three evangelical leaders to discuss their collective opposition to Trump during the election and how they understood the state of the evangelical movement now. Dan Darling, the vice president of communications for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Katelyn Beaty, former Quick to Listen co-host and CT’s print managing editor, and Julie Roys, host of the national talk show Up For Debate on the Moody Radio Network joined Galli on the stage at the Evangelical Press Association’s annual convention in Lombard, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
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0:28.4	Music Michael Del Rosario at Apologeticsguy.com. You're listening to Quick to Listen.
0:30.3	Each week we go be on hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.
0:35.6	I'm Morgan Lee and I'm assistant editor here at Christianity today
0:38.7	and I'm with Mark right now. Hey Mark. Hey, good to see you again. What's going on? How's your week been?
0:44.7	Very busy. I was up fishing in Wisconsin and got back and went to EPA, the Evangelical Press Association,
0:51.6	where we mingled with our compatriots in the area of journalism,
0:55.3	evangelical journalists, and received a number of awards for Christianity Today, for Christianity
1:00.0	Today online, and other publications that we have here. It's pretty awesome, right? It was great.
1:04.8	It was a great two days, yeah. So this week, our listeners are going to hear something a little
1:09.8	bit different, which means that I will
1:12.2	not actually really be contributing to the podcast discussion because we're going to be playing
1:16.1	something that you did at EPA, and that was that you hosted a panel. Do you want to tell us a little
1:22.2	about what the panel was about? It was a plenary panel, meant the whole EPA convention was there for it because they thought that everyone was interested in the topic, and I think they very much were.
1:32.2	The title of the panel was the Trump administration. How should the church respond?
1:37.0	And the idea was to explore the division in the House of Evangelicalism over the Trump administration and how we understand that. What are the causes
1:45.2	of that? Are there ways to bridge that difference? Interesting. So who did you have talk about this?
1:50.7	So on the panel, we're three really bright and very devout evangelical leaders who I deeply respect.
1:57.6	So one was Dan Darling, Vice President of Communications for the Ethics and Religious
2:02.2	Liberty Commission. He's a contributor to CT pastors. He's the author of several books, including
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