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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2016, file photo, Pastor Joshua Nink, right, prays for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as wife, Melania, left, watches after a Sunday service at First Christian Church, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The list of prominent evangelicals denouncing Trump is growing, but is anyone in the flock listening? The bloc of voters powering the real estate mogul through the Republican primaries is significantly weighted with white born-again Christians. As Trumps ascendancy forces the GOP establishment to confront how it lost touch with so many conservative voters, top evangelicals are facing their own dark night, wondering what has drawn so many Christians to a twice-divorced, profane casino magnate with a muddled record on abortion and gay marriage. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Column: Evangelicals Embrace a ‘Baby Christian’

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsJuly 16, 2016

Franklin Graham holds a prayer service on the Statehouse steps Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Randall Balmer: When the Religious Right’s Agenda Changed

by Randall Balmer For the Valley NewsMay 11, 2016