{"id":51131,"date":"2015-08-09T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T02:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gr_richard_ostling-evangelicalsmormons_is_this_americas_most_unlikely_inte\/"},"modified":"2015-08-09T02:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T02:02:20","slug":"gr_richard_ostling-evangelicalsmormons_is_this_americas_most_unlikely_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51131","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Richard Ostling&#8211;Evangelicals+Mormons: is this America\u2019s most unlikely interfaith dialogue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With scant media attention, leading U.S. thinkers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. Mormon) and Evangelical Protestantism have been holding regular dialogue meetings the past 15 years. This is a good moment for religion writers to examine where things stand between these two dynamic faiths.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the talks are pausing temporarily as participants issue a new anthology: \u201cTalking Doctrine: Mormons &#038; Evangelicals in Conversation\u201d\u009d (InterVarsity Press). The book\u2019s editors, who\u2019ve led the dialogue to date, are top sources for journalists: Robert Millet, former religious education dean at the LDS Brigham Young University, and Richard Mouw, retired president of Fuller Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides constitute the most unlikely dialogue partners imaginable, despite their concord on moral issues in the socio-political realm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2015\/8\/4\/so-is-this-americas-most-unlikely-interfaith-dialogue\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With scant media attention, leading U.S. thinkers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. Mormon) and Evangelical Protestantism have been holding regular dialogue meetings the past 15 years. This is a good moment for religion writers to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51131\">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":[39,50,42,209,92,419,161,428,154,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-evangelicals","category-inter-faith-relations","category-mormons","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131","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=51131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}