Character in Leadership — does it still matter?

Posted on June 25, 2016 
Filed under Opinion

Albert MohlerIn the 1976 presidential campaign, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, then the Democratic nominee, made headlines in the United States and around the world merely by granting a single interview. That interview was with Playboy magazine.

The interview was a political bombshell. No major American politician had come within any distance of Playboy magazine. It was considered the iconic symbol of American pornography, and the very fact that a political candidate—not to mention the nominee of one of America’s major political parties—had granted an interview to Playboy magazine, seemed almost morally unbelievable and indefensible…”

– Albert Mohler asks whether evangelical Christians care any more about the moral character of leaders.