Source: The Huffington Post | Antonia Blumberg
More than 800 Christian leaders are calling on President Donald Trump to honor the tenets of his professed faith ahead of Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast.
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In a 2011 interview with NPR on the tradition of the prayer breakfast, progressive Christian author Jim Wallis said: “I remember Senator Mark Hatfield spoke years ago when I was in seminary and he called the war in Vietnam a national sin and shame in front of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. I saw their faces and they weren’t happy with that. So when it can raise up issues that we ought to be accountable to, whether we are religious or not, I think that’s when it’s probably at its best.”