{"id":39483,"date":"2013-08-10T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ethicist_shaun_casey_to_oversee_religious_engagement_for_state_department\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:00:53","slug":"ethicist_shaun_casey_to_oversee_religious_engagement_for_state_department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39483","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Ethicist Shaun Casey to oversee religious engagement for State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Amid persistent criticism that the U.S. marginalizes religion and religious people in its foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry Aug. 7 tapped ethicist and campaign adviser Shaun Casey to lead the State Department\u2019s new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Casey is a professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington and advised President Obama\u2019s campaign and other Democrats on outreach to religious voters.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry praised Casey as someone who understands how the U.S. can engage religious communities around the world to foster peace and development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/08\/07\/2906298\/ethicist-shaun-casey-to-oversee.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid persistent criticism that the U.S. marginalizes religion and religious people in its foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry Aug. 7 tapped ethicist and campaign adviser Shaun Casey to lead the State Department\u2019s new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39483\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,168,151,108,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}