{"id":348,"date":"2009-01-03T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/moderate-islam-makes-inroads-v.html"},"modified":"2009-01-03T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:00:11","slug":"moderate-islam-makes-inroads-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/moderate-islam-makes-inroads-v.html","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Islam Makes Inroads Via Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Surf the TV or press seek on the radio &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;if you find a religious station in America&nbsp;you can be sure it is preaching a very conservative message in&nbsp;sincere dulcet tones.&nbsp; This story from the New York Times about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03preacher.html?em\">moderate Islam making inroads on satellite TV<\/a> will hopefully be good news for the future of&nbsp;Islam as well as&nbsp;inspire some more moderate or even progressive Christian broadcasting in the West. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf the TV or press seek on the radio &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;if you find a religious station in America&nbsp;you can be sure it is preaching a very conservative message in&nbsp;sincere dulcet tones.&nbsp; 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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