Analysts and journalists are having a hard time understanding Donald Trump’s appeal to America’s evangelicals.  This is not surprising, considering the media’s widespread ignorance about and (often) repugnance toward evangelicals and religion in general. Evangelicals are not a simplistically defined group.  Millions do not fit the typical media stereotype most often presented to the public.  Millions seek to live and act out the Christian life in uncompromising ways. There also have been and are titans of the movement, both in America and abroad, who as Christians committed to orthodoxy, have had and are having an enormous impact on individuals as well as society.  One thinks of William Wilberforce, the tireless anti-slavery champion of England; and here in the United States, the influence of evangelicals led by such preachers as Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Taylor , Charles Finney and others who stood for the freedom of slaves, founded foreign...(Read Full Article)