Letter from Christians to Muslims Continues to Make Waves

Weeks after a group of Christian leaders endorsed a document calling for increased efforts to work with Muslims, some evangelicals are questioning whether it's something that any evangelicals should have signed. Baptist Press recently ran two stories, one noting that Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said signing such a letter was unwise. A second BP story noted that a New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary professor defended his own signature of endorsement because he believes in dialogue with Muslims.

CitizenLink also weighed in on this, noting that Gary Bauer, president of the Campaign for Working Families, thought that when leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals signed the statement they showed "they're going down the same road that the National Council of Churches is going." NAE President Leith Anderson issued a statement in November saying he signed the letter as an individual but hopes the statement will lead to "mutual respect" and uphold "the conviction that it is not good to live in either ignorance nor isolation."