{"id":36652,"date":"2016-09-13T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36652"},"modified":"2016-09-13T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:12:16","slug":"do-christians-belong-in-the-public-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/do-christians-belong-in-the-public-world.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do Christians Belong in the Public World?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36653\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/William_Wilberforce_1788.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36653\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36653\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/William_Wilberforce_1788.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Wilberforce, MP\" width=\"463\" height=\"693\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willliam Wilberforce, in 1788 (Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I would like to call your attention to an outstanding blog produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/kristinef\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kristine Wardle Frederickson<\/a>, who has participated on numerous occasions in Interpreter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/category\/scripture-roundtable\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scripture roundtables<\/a> and who serves as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/board\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a contributing editor for the Interpreter Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moralsocialactivism.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/moralsocialactivism.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In particular, I want to mention a new article that she\u2019s posted, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/moralsocialactivism.com\/do-christians-belong-in-the-public-world\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cDo Christians Belong in the Public World?\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/moralsocialactivism.com\/do-christians-belong-in-the-public-world\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I would like to call your attention to an outstanding blog produced by Kristine Wardle Frederickson, who has participated on numerous occasions in Interpreter scripture roundtables and who serves as\u00a0a contributing editor for the Interpreter Foundation: \u00a0 http:\/\/moralsocialactivism.com \u00a0 In particular, I want to mention a new article that she\u2019s posted, entitled \u201cDo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Do Christians Belong in the Public World?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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