{"id":41992,"date":"2017-05-08T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41992"},"modified":"2017-05-08T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T19:03:43","slug":"will-trump-confront-renewed-religious-repression-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/will-trump-confront-renewed-religious-repression-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will Trump Confront Renewed Religious Repression in Russia?&#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_38593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38593\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/12\/800px-Moscow_Kremlin.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38593\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38593\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/12\/800px-Moscow_Kremlin.jpg\" alt=\"The Kremlin, in Moscow\" width=\"597\" height=\"391\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kremlin in Moscow \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons photo by \u201cQuistnix\u201d)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From my perspective, the two most intellectually interesting non-teaching units currently at BYU \u2014 by <em>far<\/em> \u2014 are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iclrs.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Center for Law and Religion Studies<\/a>, housed in the J. Reuben Clark Law School, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wheatley.byu.edu\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Wheatley Institution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an important article from <a href=\"http:\/\/mormonscholarstestify.org\/2080\/elizabeth-a-clark\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Elizabeth Clark<\/a>, who is prominently affiliated with the former:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447363\/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-ban-extremist-religious-freedom-trump-administration\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447363\/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-ban-extremist-religious-freedom-trump-administration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Jericho, Palestine<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 From my perspective, the two most intellectually interesting non-teaching units currently at BYU \u2014 by far \u2014 are the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, housed in the J. Reuben Clark Law School, and the Wheatley Institution. \u00a0 Here\u2019s an important article from Elizabeth Clark, who is prominently affiliated with the former: [&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-41992","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;Will Trump Confront Renewed Religious Repression in Russia?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; From my perspective, the two most intellectually interesting non-teaching units currently at BYU -- by far -- are the International Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/will-trump-confront-renewed-religious-repression-russia.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Will Trump Confront Renewed Religious Repression in Russia?&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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