“The relationships that are being built mean everything. … When an evangelical Christian gets to know a Muslim, the whole defense of Islam has stepped up to a higher level because … you’re no longer talking about a religion. You’re talking about my friend.”
Joel Hunter
The Florida megachurch pastor was speaking in Washington at the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, on work to expand interfaith relationships. (RNS)
“I think I would also say intelligent design is not only bad science; it’s questionable theology. It implies that God was an underachiever and started this evolutionary process and then realized it wasn’t going to quite work and had to keep stepping in all along the way to fix it. That seems like a limitation of God’s omniscience.”
Francis Collins
The geneticist, who has been nominated by President Obama to head the National Institues of Health, spoke with journalists at a recent discussion sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. (ABP)