{"id":4587,"date":"2020-02-17T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2020-02-17T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:53:11","slug":"the-paul-edwards-program-for-monday-february-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-paul-edwards-program-for-monday-february-17","title":{"rendered":"The Paul Edwards Program for Monday, February 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PRESIDENT&#8217;S DAY:  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tifwe.org\/george-washington-on-the-blessings-of-religious-liberty\/\">George Washington on the Blessings of Religious Liberty <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RNS:  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/02\/11\/more-us-firms-are-boosting-faith-based-support-for-employees\/\">More US firms are boosting faith-based support for employees <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 20% of the Fortune 100 have established faith-based employee resource groups, according to an AP examination and there&#8217;s a high-powered conference taking place this week in Washington aimed at expanding those ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Corporate America is at a tipping point toward giving religion similar attention to that given the other major diversity categories,&#8221; says Brian Grim, founder and president of the Religious Freedom &amp; Business Foundation that&#8217;s co-hosting the conference along with the Catholic University of America&#8217;s Busch School of Business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CT: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/february\/google-tyson-target-corporations-religious-inclusion.html\">Google, Tyson, and Target Rank as Top Corporations for Religious Inclusion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Today&#8217;s Guest: Dr. Brian Grim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:31% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Brian-Grim-PhD-BIO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Brian-Grim-PhD-BIO.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Brian-Grim-PhD-BIO-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Brian Grim, Ph. D.<\/strong>, is the founding president of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousfreedomandbusiness.org\/\">Religious Freedom &amp;  Business Foundation<\/a><\/em>, a corporate trainer, and a leading scholar on  international religious demography, and the pioneer of the study of the socioeconomic  impact of religious freedom.<br><br> Brian is the creator of the first fully global measures of religious freedom for  countries of the world, and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/religiousfreedomandbusiness.org\/redi\">Corporate Religious Equity and Diversity  Inclusion (REDI) Index<\/a><\/strong>, which establishes a new benchmark for annual assessment of the state of corporate America\u2019s inclusion of religion as an  integral part of its diversity initiatives. His widely reported research finds that  <a href=\"https:\/\/religiousfreedomandbusiness.org\/1-2-trillion-religious-economy-in-us\">religion contributes $1.2 trillion to the U.S. economy annually<\/a>, more than the combined revenues of the top 10 technology U.S. companies including Apple,  Amazon and Google.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>CONTROVERSIES IN THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RNS:  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/02\/14\/for-now-southern-baptists-stick-by-hosanna-wong-spoken-word-artist-and-pastor\/\">For now, Southern Baptists stick by Hosanna Wong, spoken word artist and pastor <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CP:  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/conservative-baptist-network-launched-amid-woke-trend-in-sbc-emphasizing-scripture-evangelism.html\">Conservative Baptist Network launched amid &#8216;woke&#8217; trend in SBC, emphasizing Scripture, evangelism <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The real network of Southern Baptists is called the Southern Baptist Convention. It\u2019s going to meet June 9-10 in Orlando. I look forward to joining you there.<\/p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/1228722925412458496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Albert Mohler&#8217;s veiled tweet opposing the new Conservative Baptist Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Albert Mohler: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/albertmohler.com\/2020\/02\/13\/a-word-to-southern-baptists-part-1\">A Word to Southern Baptists<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Is Dr. Mohler suggesting in the above link that because missions and evangelism are the &#8216;animating passions of the SBC,&#8217; the present controversies over gender roles, critical race theory, and intersectionality should be ignored?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CT:  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2019\/fall\/here-come-skinny-cows.html\">Four reasons tithes and offerings are about to drop dramatically<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT&#8217;S DAY: George Washington on the Blessings of Religious Liberty RNS: More US firms are boosting faith-based support for employees More than 20% of the Fortune 100 have established faith-based employee resource groups, according to an AP examination and there&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-paul-edwards-program-for-monday-february-17\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}