{"id":852,"date":"2003-12-16T09:35:26","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/12\/16\/christian-professors-help-out-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T17:35:26","slug":"christian-professors-help-out-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/12\/16\/christian-professors-help-out-in-afghanistan","title":{"rendered":"Christian Professors Help Out In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2003\/012\/4.46.html\">Rebuilding Afghanistan U<\/a> is a fascinating story of how well-educated Christians can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>It talks about how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iics.com\/\">International Institute for Christian Studies<\/a> sent professors to Afghanistan after the war against the Taliban to rebuild their higher-education infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><i>The group is very picky about its candidates\u2019 credentials (a graduate degree is a must), experience, and Christian witness. Only one of 10 applicants gets accepted. When Communist countries ask CEO Daryl McCarthy for teachers, he says something like&nbsp;this:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want experienced, hard-working, ethical professionals? We\u2019ll get them for you. In fact, IICS is so particular that we make sure that every one of them is a Christian.\u201d Says McCarthy: \u201cIt\u2019s fun to hear the foreign officials say, \u2018Ah, yes, very good. That\u2019s what we&nbsp;need.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article is fascinating and well worth a&nbsp;read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding Afghanistan U is a fascinating story of how well-educated Christians can make a difference. It talks about how the International Institute for Christian Studies sent professors to Afghanistan after the war against the Taliban to rebuild their higher-education infrastructure. The group is very picky about its candidates\u2019 credentials (a graduate degree is a must), \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/12\/16\/christian-professors-help-out-in-afghanistan\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cChristian Professors Help Out In Afghanistan\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}