In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, CRCD Executive Director Jordan Ballor interviews Mark David Hall, who serves as a professor in Regent University’s Robertson School of Government, director of the CRCD’s Religious Liberty in the States project, and a senior research fellow at CRCD. This conversation centers around
Did America Have a Christian Founding? offers straightforward clarity. Even before the reader reaches the first chapter, the introduction has already laid out the book’s entire argument. It begins, as it should, with a problem: in this case, a misconception about whether America had a Christian Founding. Both popular and
Civil War historian Allen Guelzo called history an answer to the “second question.” For him, the first question to satisfy the most basic curiosity of the human mind is, “What is that?” The second question, which Guelzo called the “historian’s question,” is, “Where did it come from?” When we ask
I have written or edited a dozen academic books, most of which consider in one way or another the relationship between Christianity and politics/law in America’s founding. These books, along with works by like-minded students of America’s founding, have encouraged jurists and academics to reconsider the role of religion in
