A visible evangelical peace coalition with Muslims existed in 2007

Evidence

Not all evangelicals jumped on the anti-Muslim bandwagon. In 2007, nearly 300 Christian leaders signed the “Yale Letter,” a call for Christians and Muslims to work together for peace. Published in the New York Times, the letter was signed by several prominent evangelical leaders, including megachurch pastors Rick Warren and Bill Hybels, Christianity Today editor David Neff, emerging church leader Brian McLaren, Jim Wallis of Sojourners, and Rich Mouw, president of evangelical Fuller Seminary. Notably, Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, and Richard Cizik, the NAE’s chief lobbyist, also signed the letter. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 509

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Du Mez’s dominant-strand argument: this is evidence that the militant strand was dominant but not total, relevant to the reader’s question of whether the strand IS white evangelicalism or a dominant strand within it.
• SEED: The Yale Letter as a counterpoint case: what happened to the moderate evangelical leadership, and why did the militant wing win the internal fight?