who is the next evangelicalist. we could all name off our favorite ones and one by one they are not going to be perfect and they have all made mistakes. you know, kenneth copeland bought a fleet of billy graham's planes and he catapulted a lot of them. were they perfect? did they let him down? there was only one man that walked on this earth, we believe, as christians and that was jesus. so i just think we need to remember that, you know, we are all entitled to our opinions and i think that the next evangelicalist is all of us. that every day americans still show kindness. i dropped a nickel on the floor and a black lady picked it up and that's what this world is about and that's what our country is about. we're just trying to protect the right to be able to worship the way we want and everybody doesn't have to believe like i do or like you do, but we all should be able to sit down. my father worked in the paper hills and they all sat together for lunchtime. they all joked about what nationality they were and what f

one of the things that was so distinctive about whitfield, who was the greatest evangelicalist of that era, that even though he was an 18 lick can minister, a church of england minister, especially in america he cooperated very avidly with nonanglicans, anybody who was supportive of his message of the new birth of salvation, being born again, this is the experience that all people need to have. he was quite willing to preach in their churches and to preach alongside them. and he was upbraided by anglican authorities about saying, why are you cooperating so much with the dissenters? the baptists and the presbyterians and the congregationalists and the quakers. and he said, because i see born again people among all denominations. so that's a unity that's born to me out of a specific kind of religious principle, which is the belief and the need for conversion and being born again. so there's a way in which i think these two trends towards religious unity are happening at the same time. one is the evangelical unity around the new birth of salvation, one is the enlightenment kind of trend o

i'm with many scholars like matt evangelicalist irand others who think the 70s are enduring change. you don't think you can understand gorbachev. you kaund understand the new thinkers without understanding this period and the way the personal releases broke down bar years and some of the ideological barriers between contact between societies. the exchanges that arise. scientific exchange allen lynch has written about this in the field of internationals relations. the ways that east and west due to personal relationships, not to fundamental agreements on ideologies, the but the personal relationships of the leaders open space, give legislate macy to give cover to those who long wanted to kmupgt across societies. we do have a more stable world. wouldn't its nice if the president -- if we had some sense what have his common knowledge about nuclear weapons was wouldn't that make it more stable? there is something about building common knowledge for strategic stability. we take it for granted as collars we think we know what we know and policies makers should know it. but off often that'