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Evangelical Leaders Discuss How to Enhance Human Flourishing
Evangelical Leaders Discuss How to Enhance Human Flourishing
Jun 29, 2025 10:40 PM

Last week in Washington, D.C., AEI’s Values and Capitalism initiative hosted their inaugural Evangelical Leadership Summit. The summit was a nonpartisan conversation among leading evangelical writers, pastors, parachurch leaders, business executives, artists, and policymakersthatfocused on “concrete paths to enhancing human flourishing.”

Summit panels emphasized distinct contributions to human flourishing made by the church, universities, the arts, Christian relief-and-development organizations., local antipoverty initiatives, and more. Click each link below to watch a video of the panel sessions:

What does a healthy social justice agenda look like?

A new conversation on poverty, policy, and prosperity

Faith in the halls of power

From Coercion to Creation: Power and Human Flourishing

The Impact of Religious Liberty and Economic and Political Liberties

Song and Cinema: Why Engagement Upstream Matters

Voices From Abroad The Pursuit of Justice for the Voiceless

The Church, the Gospel, and Mankind Fully Alive

The Pursuit of Happiness by American Enterprise Institute

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