{"id":40360,"date":"2025-05-01T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/?post_type=cs_article&#038;p=40360"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:34:19","slug":"three-years-of-the-summit-for-religious-freedom-an-interview-with-au-vice-president-of-outreach-brian-silva","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/three-years-of-the-summit-for-religious-freedom-an-interview-with-au-vice-president-of-outreach-brian-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Years of the Summit for Religious Freedom: An interview with AU Vice President of Outreach Brian Silva"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&#038;S: You envisioned and created SRF. How did that come about?<\/p>\n<p>Silva: Before I arrived, the original idea for the event was more in line with a national gathering specifically for AU members and run by AU staff. However, I had also been asked to envision how this event could contribute to building up a national movement for church-state separation and inclusive religious freedom, as well as fight back against Christian Nationalism and others seeking to impose their narrow religious beliefs on others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[262],"cs_article_type":[160],"class_list":["post-40360","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-may-2025-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/40360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/40360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=40360"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=40360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}