operation expands to radio in 1992 1981 Institute on Religion and Democracy is founded 1981 Pope John Paul II shot by Mehmet Ali Agca; survives and later forgives him 1982 Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics 1985 Jesus Seminar founded 1985 E. P. Sanders' Jesus and Judaism published 1986 Chicago Statement on Biblical Application 1986 Dutch Remonstrant Brotherhood becomes the first Protestant church worldwide to approve seme-sex marriage. 1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of South Africa; joins anti-apartheid movement 1987 Danvers Statement – Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 1988 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America founded 1988 Lutheran Council in the United States of America dissolved 1988 Christian Coalition founded by Pat Robertson 1988 The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese, is released by Universal Pictures, and promptly attacked as heretical by organized Christian and Catholic groups 1988 The celebration of 1,000 years since the baptism of Kievan Rus throughout the R.O.C. 1988 Assemblies of God pastor Jimmy Swaggart caught in sex scandal 1989 New Revised Standard Version 1991 John P. Meier's series A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, v. 1 1992 New Catechism of the Catholic Church published 1993 Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference founded 1993 International Lutheran Council founded 1994 "Evangelicals & Catholics Together" 1994 Porvoo Communion 1994 Answers In Genesis founded by Ken Ham 1994, July 3: Glorification of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco 1996 Cambridge Declaration – Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals 1997, March 5–10: World Council of Churches: Towards a Common Date for Easter, see also Reform of the date of Easter 1999 International House of Prayer in Kansas City begins non-stop 24/7 continual prayer 1999, October 31: signing of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church 1999 Gospel of Jesus Christ – An Evangelical Celebration; a consensus Gospel endorsed by various evangelical leaders including J.I. Packer, John Ankerberg, Jerry Falwell, Thomas C. Oden, R.C. Sproul, Wayne Grudem, Charles Swindoll, et al. 1999 Radical orthodoxy Christian theological movement begins, critiquing modern secularism and emphasizing the return to traditional doctrine; similar to the Paleo-orthodoxy Christian theological movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which sees the consensual understanding of the faith among the Church Fathers as the basis of Biblical interpretation and the foundation of the Church 2000 Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ founded in schism from Evangelical Lutheran Church