Robert Seiple

Ambassador Robert A. Seiple is President of the Council on America's First Freedom and founder of the Institute for Global Engagement. Prior to its foundation, he spent two years at the State Department as the first-ever U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He has spent his professional career in leadership positions, serving as: president of World Vision (the largest privately funded relief and development organization in the world) from 1987-1998; president of Eastern College and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (1983-1987); and director for athletics and the vice president for development at his alma mater, Brown University (1970-1983). His op-eds have appeared in numerous leading periodicals, and his books include Ambassadors of Hope (InterVarsity Press, 2004), and Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations (with Dennis R. Hoover, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

Articles by Robert Seiple

• Fundraising: A Christian Perspective on Enabling Radical Hospitality
• A New Language of Human Rights: The Four Rs
• Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations
• Ambassadors of Hope: How Christians Can Respond to the World's Toughest Problems
• From Bible Bombardment to Incarnational Evangelism: A Reflection on Christian Witness and Persecution
• Methodology, Metrics, and Moral Imperatives in Religious Freedom Diplomacy
• Not Goode Enough
• Bacci Blessings?: Faith and Culture in Creative Tension
• The Trivialization of Truth
• By the Numbers
• The Hidden Faces of Suffering
• Confessional Foreign Policy
• Cursing Darkness, Lighting Candles
• A Roadmap for Vietnam
• Security, Stability, and Religious Freedom
• The Ambassadorship of All Believers
• Why Brandywine Review?