{"id":5934,"date":"2017-08-18T20:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/uncommongodcommongood\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2017-08-18T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T03:43:11","slug":"why-are-so-many-evangelical-advisers-to-president-trump-silent-now-on-charlottesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/uncommongodcommongood\/2017\/08\/why-are-so-many-evangelical-advisers-to-president-trump-silent-now-on-charlottesville\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are So Many Evangelical Advisers to President Trump Silent Now on Charlottesville?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A Zen Buddhist<\/a> friend reached out to me today to ask me why so many Evangelical advisers to President Trump have remained silent on Charlottesville. By the way, I don\u2019t think this\u00a0Zen Buddhist was particularly interested at the moment in finding religionists from across the ideological pond who also engaged in silent meditation. So, I sent this recent article<\/a> indicating how a few Evangelical leaders spoke out against the white supremacy on display in Charlottesville. In response, my Buddhist friend sent me this article<\/a> about how so many Evangelical advisers have stood by\u00a0the President, remaining silent, even while many business\u00a0advisers have spoken up and abandoned him. If only many of us who are Evangelical leaders would remain silent and listen empathically when our African American friends and acquaintances speak their minds on the same issues!<\/p>\n

One white conservative Evangelical pastor, a friend of mine, models the way forward after Charlottesville. While he confesses to being frustrated many times by how people tend to blame the white church for problems in our society, making him want to react vocally, he has caught himself and stopped to listen to African American friends and acquaintances\u2019 concerns. He has taken it one step further\u00a0and\u00a0asks himself the following questions in a recent blog post<\/a> and encourages other white Christians to do the same. So, I will ask the same questions with him:<\/p>\n