{"id":340,"date":"2006-04-10T12:57:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2006-04-10T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T20:57:03","slug":"engaging-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/04\/10\/engaging-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oganization I support and greatly respect is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalengagement.org\">Institute for Global Engagement<\/a>.  The IGE is a &#8220;think tank&#8221; with the goal of fostering theological reflection on and faith-based engagement in international affairs.  They publish an excellent journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalengagement.org\/edu\/cfia\/publications.htm\">The Review of Faith and International Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like the IGE&#8217;s approach to Islam.  Unlike much of American Evangelicaldom, the IGE doesn&#8217;t reduce Islam to radical jihadism.  At the same time, the IGE&#8217;s approach is realistic about the problems of radical Islam and the difficulties inherent in promoting the development of moderate Islamic societies.  Some good articles from IGE&#8217;s site about this are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalengagement.org\/issues\/2004\/02\/ftp.htm\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalengagement.org\/issues\/2004\/02\/iran.htm\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalengagement.org\/issues\/2005\/02\/dutch.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oganization I support and greatly respect is the Institute for Global Engagement. The IGE is a &#8220;think tank&#8221; with the goal of fostering theological reflection on and faith-based engagement in international affairs. They publish an excellent journal, The Review of Faith and International Affairs. I particularly like the IGE&#8217;s approach to Islam. Unlike much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}