Respond and Engage! WP: Trump accidentally tweeted an insult at a pastor. Here\u2019s how the pastor responded.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The president had mixed up Jonathan Carl, the Kentucky minister with fewer than 375 Twitter followers, with Jonathan Karl, the ABC News reporter whose journalism had ruffled the feathers of the commander in chief. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Carl, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post, is the lead pastor at South Fork Baptist Church in Hodgenville, Ky. According to an online biography, he is an Iraq War veteran, holds a PhD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is raising three daughters with his wife. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n GUEST: Dr. David Murray<\/a><\/strong> is Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary<\/a> and Adjunct Faculty at Westminster Theological Seminary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Valerie Oltarsh-McCarthy, who sat among the congregation listening to a Sunday sermon on the perils of genetically modified vegetables, is, in fact, an atheist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s something I never thought would happen,\u201d she said of the bond she has forged with the church\u2019s community, if not the tenets of its faith. She was drawn to the church, she said, by \u201csomething in the spirit of Rutgers and something in the spirit of the outside world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Katharine Butler, an artist, was lured into Rutgers when she walked by a sandwich board on the street advertising its environmental activism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Especially as coverage of the 2020 election cycle begins in earnest this fall, those who guard the doors to our public discourse should take explicit steps to make sure deeply religious folk see their views \u2014 unfiltered and untranslated \u2014 fully and regularly represented in our most important national conversations.” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than two dozen current and former high-ranking Liberty University officials and close associates of Falwell spoke to me or provided documents for this article, opening up\u2014for the first time at an institution so intimately associated with the Falwell family\u2014about what they\u2019ve experienced and why they don\u2019t think he\u2019s the right man to lead Liberty University or serve as a figurehead in the Christian conservative movement. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n JOHN FEA: Why the Recent *Politico\u201d Piece Will Not Hurt Jerry Falwell Jr.\u2019s Standing Among Many Conservative Evangelicals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n EMMA GREEN: Why Some Christians \u2018Love the Meanest Parts\u2019 of Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n WDIV: Fred McLeod, former Detroit sportscaster, dies at 67<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n OBIT: Joel Alexander, traffic reporter\/helicopter pilot at WJR Radio in Detroit for over 30 years, dies <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS: Todd Palin files for divorce from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n LISTEN LIVE AT 1:00 PM ET Respond and Engage!TALK TO PAUL ON-AIR: 313.272.5600 FREEP: Bloomfield Hills church blasted for plans to host anti-Muslim 9\/11 event UPDATE: Bloomfield church cancels anti-Muslim 9\/11 event after backlash CBS THIS MORNING: Condoleezza Rice: “I’m … Continue reading
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