Entries tagged with “Charisma” from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

On Tuesday June 10, 2008, Barack Obama met with about 40 Christians leaders in a nearly three-hour private gathering in Chicago. RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY managing editor Kim Lawton has learned more about what happened in the meeting and who was there. She describes the conversation and the kinds of questions asked by some of the evangelical, Roman Catholic, and mainline Protestant leaders who were there, including megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes, evangelist Franklin Graham, Charisma magazine publisher Steve Strang, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson