In a conference room on the 25th floor of the Trump Tower in Manhattan earlier this week, a group of about 40 Pentecostal televangelists and other evangelical ministers gathered in a prayer circle, laid their hands on Donald Trump, and with the exuberance for which many of their congregations are known, asked the Lord to give the candidate wisdom, strength, and courage as he seeks to become president of the United States. Such admiration for the Manhattan billionaire has bewildered many other conservative Evangelicals, many of whom have begun to issue blistering criticisms of the GOP frontrunner's lifestyle and awkward expressions of Christian piety. But many of the influential,...
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