EVANGELICAL CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS DIPLOMACY
Podcasts
Interview with Pastor Steve Stone on Christian-Muslim relationships
Interview with Dana Trent and Fred Eaker on interfaith marriage
September 4th, 2012 |
New Wine Director Dr. Paul Louis Metzger talks with District Manager for Pagan Federation London Mike Stygal and Foundation for Religious Diplomacy Evangelical Chapter Director John W. Morehead. They discuss matters of religious diplomacy between Christians and Pagans and explore why the two groups generally have a hard time interacting with one another.
Click here to listen to the audio of this recorded discussion.
Conversation with Mike Stygal and John W. Morehead on Pagan-Christian interaction at New Wine, New Wineskins
Paul Louis Metzger and Kyogen Carlson discuss Christian-Buddhist relationships
An interview with Paul Louis Metzger and Kyogen Carlson on Christian-Buddhist relationships. Metzger is Professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture at Multnomah University and Multnomah Biblical Seminary. Carlson is a Soto Zen priest and abbot of Dharma Rain Zen Center.
This conversation was recorded on September 17. Kyogen Carlson passed away the following day. This was his last work in multi-faith engagement. We are privileged to have known him, to have had him as a friend, and to have worked with him in religious diplomacy. You can also read an edited transcript of this discussion from Cultural Encounters 10, no. 2 (2014): 91-102.
An Interview with Os Guinness on religious freedom and diversity
An interview with Os Guinness on religious freedom and diversity. Guinness' book on this topic is The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity (InterVarsity Press, 2013). From the book:
How do we live with our deepest differences, especially when those differences are religious and ideological, and very especially when those differences concern matters of our common public life? In short, how do we create a global public square and make the world safer for diversity? (p. 13)
An interview with Douglas Johnston on faith-based diplomacy
An interview with Douglas Johnston on faith-based diplomacy. Johnston is the president and founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy out of Washington, DC (www.icrd.org). He has produced several books including Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft; and his most recent, Religion, Terror and Error: US Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement.
An interview with Ronald Sider on nonviolent action
Ron Sider discusses his book Nonviolent Action: What Christian Ethics Demands but Most Christians Have Never Tried (Brazos Press, 2015). There are numerous examples throughout history of effective nonviolent action. Nonviolent protesters defied the Soviet Empire's communist rulers, Gandhi's nonviolent revolution defeated the British Empire, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful civil-rights crusade changed American history. Recent scholarship shows that nonviolent revolutions against injustice and dictatorship are actually more successful than violent campaigns. In this book, noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider argues that the search for peaceful alternatives to violence is not only a practical necessity in the wake of the twentieth century--the most bloody in human history--but also a moral demand of the Christian faith. He presents compelling examples of how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice, showing that this path is a successful and viable alternative to violence.
Interview on Islamophobia with The Bridge Initiative
“Islamophobia is a rejection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” These strong words come from Pastor Bob Roberts, one of the two Evangelical Christian leaders, along with John Morehead, who we speak with in the newest installment of The Bridge Initiative podcast, Voices on Islamophobia.
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