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[Also: This Black Pastor Led a White Church - in 1788 | A Shoplifter's Search for God] Also: This Black Pastor Led a White Church — in 1788 | A Shoplifter's Search for God | [View online]( [ChristianityToday.org]( [Christianity Today Weekly Newsletter]( Friday, May 05, 2017 NEWS [Trump's Religious Liberty Order Doesn't Answer Most Evangelicals' Prayers]( Prayer breakfast pledge to 'totally destroy' Johnson Amendment comes up shy; conscience exemptions from LGBT anti-discrimination rules missing. KATE SHELLNUTT In his biggest religious liberty push since taking office, President Donald Trump officially laid out in an executive order some of the protections he has promised faithful supporters for months. The move came on the same day that evangelical leaders gathered in Washington for the annual National Day of Prayer. One problem: This is not the executive order many evangelicals had been praying for. 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