Replacing Haggard

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Minnesota megachurch pastor has been named president of the National Association of Evangelicals, nearly a year after former president Ted Haggard resigned in scandal.

The Rev. Leith Anderson, 62, has been interim president since Haggard’s fall in November 2006, and held the job before Haggard’s tenure. The NAE board, at a meeting here Oct. 11, voted unanimously to make the position permanent.

Anderson, 62, has not been as outspoken about politics as his predecessor.