{"id":6986,"date":"2013-03-17T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:07:49","slug":"film-different-books-common-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=6986","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith Film: &#8216;Different Books, Common Word&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A showing of the documentary film <strong>\u201cDifferent Books, Common Word: Baptists and Muslims\u201d<\/strong> was followed by small group and general discussions. The film includes people (Christians and Muslims) from different cities throughout the US, including Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Port Arthur, Texas; Columbia, Tennessee; and Lake Charles, Louisiana.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Film_mar13_550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2650\" width=\"275\" height=\"207\"\/><figcaption>Joy Pople introduced the film.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We heard how they came together to foster dialogue and understanding and\/or helped each other when there were threats or other problems. There were the Baptist church members who left flowers at the mosque that had been partially burned by extremists. They offered rides and escorts to the Muslim women who were afraid to go out to shop alone after being threatened following the 9\/11 bombing.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muslim businesswomen spoke to their bank on behalf of a Baptist church that was trying to buy land to expand but couldn\u2019t get a mortgage. The bank granted the mortgage. We met a Muslim dad and Baptist mom who had their son, Liam, blessed in both the church and mosque and vowed to expose him to both faiths as he grows up and let him choose for himself. We heard moving assertions such as \u201cAny person in need is my neighbor,\u201d and \u201cWe have in common: love of neighbor and love for all of God\u2019s creation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie gave us hope, and the discussion that followed was lively and insightful.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We witnessed how Christians and Muslims came together in various US cities to foster dialogue and understanding and\/or helped each other when there were threats or other problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programs","tag-christianity","tag-islam",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}