{"id":531,"date":"2008-07-16T09:04:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/07\/16\/baylor-professor-among-nations-leaders-on-faith-based-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:04:28","slug":"baylor-professor-among-nations-leaders-on-faith-based-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/07\/baylor-professor-among-nations-leaders-on-faith-based-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor professor among nation&#8217;s leaders on faith-based initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/byron-johnson-july08.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Byron Johnson\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isreligion.org\/about\/johnson.php\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Byron Johnson<\/a>, co-director of Baylor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isreligion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Studies of Religion<\/a> (ISR), helped President George W. Bush with the creation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/government\/fbci\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives<\/a> in 2001, and since then Johnson has been among the leaders in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=43676\" target=\"_blank\">studying whether faith-based initiatives really work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after returning from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=51647\" target=\"_blank\">speaking at a White House-hosted national conference<\/a> on the subject last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2008\/07\/07\/07072008wacjohnsoninterview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson sat down for a Q&amp;A<\/a> with the <em>Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em> about how exactly such projects work, and it really cleared up a lot of things for me on the issue. It&#8217;s good to see Baylor professors putting their faith into action in such a practical and unique way.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. Johnson and ISR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Byron Johnson, co-director of Baylor&#8217;s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR), helped President George W. Bush with the creation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001, and since then Johnson has been among the leaders in studying whether faith-based initiatives really work. Shortly after returning from speaking at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-faith","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}