{"id":233,"date":"2012-08-29T07:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2012-08-29T07:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T13:49:40","slug":"our-corner-the-risks-and-rewards-of-romneys-faith-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/08\/our-corner-the-risks-and-rewards-of-romneys-faith-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Corner | The Risks and Rewards of Romney\u2019s Faith Story"},"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>On Thursday night, Romney will accept the GOP\u2019s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. As Dr. Robert P. Jones pointed out earlier this week, Romney will need to talk about religion in his acceptance speech, but discussing his own <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormon faith<\/a> could be a tricky business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=5qvRbojMpxE:QsYAeNuVDXs:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=5qvRbojMpxE:QsYAeNuVDXs:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/5qvRbojMpxE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, Romney will accept the GOP&#8217;s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate. 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