J. Daryl Charles is a senior fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy. He teaches, writes, and speaks on the ethics of war and peace, natural-law ethics, and the high calling of the marketplace. He is author or editor of twenty-four books, including, most recently, Just War and Christian Traditions (2022), Our Secular Vocation (2023), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Ethics of War (2024), and The Idea and Significance of Natural Law (2025). Charles serves as a contributing editor of Touchstone and Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy. A 2024–2025 visiting Elshtain fellow, Institute on Religion and Democracy, and an associated scholar of the John Jay Institute, he has previously held research fellowships at the Acton Institute, Princeton University’s James Madison Program, and Baylor University’s Institute for Faith and Learning. He taught at Taylor University and Union University and was a visiting professor in the honors program at Berry College. Prior to the university classroom, Charles did public-policy research in criminal justice in Washington, D.C., serving as the theological advisor and personal research assistant to Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship.
