{"id":297,"date":"2000-12-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/08\/2000-12-08-time-magazine-names-six-innovators-in-religion\/"},"modified":"2000-12-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-08T12:00:00","slug":"2000-12-08-time-magazine-names-six-innovators-in-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/08\/2000-12-08-time-magazine-names-six-innovators-in-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine Names Six Innovators in Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.time%20magazine\/\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>USA: Time Magazine has named a black Pentecostal megachurch leader in Dallas and the founder of the Internet&#8217;s hottest religion-based Web site among its six &#8220;innovators&#8221; in the world of religion and spirituality. Cable network CNN is preparing a televised companion to the 18-month series, which Time launched in June. Spiritual leaders cited by the magazine and sharing the honors are as follows: Bishop T.D. Jakes, pastor of the 26,000-member Potter&#8217;s House in Dallas and a prophet of the &#8220;prosperity gospel;&#8221; Rev. Virgilio Elizondo of the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas, who pioneered the belief that Jesus was of mixed racial heritage; Steve Waldman, a 38-year-old Internet entrepreneur who founded Beliefnet.com, the Web&#8217;s hottest religion site; Byron Kate, a 58-year-old divorced grandmother who developed &#8220;The Work,&#8221; a New Age-Zen Buddhist program to help people take responsibility for life&#8217;s problems; Tariq Ramadan, a Geneva-based lecturer who says European Muslims need to develop an &#8220;Independent Islam;&#8221; Jan Willis, a professor of Buddhism at Wesleyan University, who was able to find peace in a racist society through Buddhist meditation.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE USA: Time Magazine has named a black Pentecostal megachurch leader in Dallas and the founder of the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}