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“I got a call from a reporter…and he started asking me about same-sex marriage. After about five minutes of grilling me on same-sex marriage, ‘Now I want to ask you a question. Why is this all [conservative evangelicals] talk about?’ And I said, ‘Let me remind you of something. I didn’t call you this morning and interrupt your day to talk about same-sex marriage, you called me, you asked me these questions’….So, a part of this is just a matter of perception. People keep saying, ‘Well you conservative evangelicals only talk about this’….We do care about many other issues but that’s not what the media is asking us about.” - Albert Mohler

“…there are exceptions, but the goal of most religion reporters is to be warm and cuddly perhaps about other religions like Buddhism, but not anything like that in relation to Christianity, perhaps, even to increase the general antagonism and fear and suspicion of Christianity,” Marvin Olasky.

“In Christianity, the superficiality is such that..if someone sees a face of Jesus in a pizza, that can be a story, but as far as getting into what Jesus actually taught, and the way that changes lives, that is a rarity,” Marvin Olasky.

“If you are evangelizing your Jewish neighbor or anyone else who works with you, then it is important to know where is he coming from…,” Marvin Olasky.

“There are a whole lot of religion reporters out there who see Christianity as the enemy and they tend to give a good press to Buddhism, they tend to give a generally good press to Judaism and Hinduism, and they even give a much better press than you’d expect since 9/11 to Islam, Marvin Olasky. Dr. Land speaks with Marvin about his book, The Religions Next Door: What We Need to Know about Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.