In this month’s episode of the Reading Wheel Review, Dr. John D. Wilsey, a senior fellow at the CRCD and a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, sits down with the CRCD’s director of research Dr. Jordan Ballor to discuss some of the key features of his recent book, Religious Freedom:
A few years ago, I joined a panel of scholars at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky for a one-day conference on Baptist public theology. It was clear that members of the group were thinking about Stephen Wolfe’s book The Case for Christian Nationalism, which ignited controversy with its extremely
John Wilsey’s Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer, considers the best means of preserving “America’s two spirits,” the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion. The title may lead the reader to assume that this is an introductory work on the jurisprudence or philosophy of religious freedom. It is not. Far
The challenge to the American experiment in the early decades of the twenty-first century is to defend the tradition of the harmony between the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion. In defending America’s two spirits, we defend what it means to be an American. The two spirits are
