Law and Religion at Emory

I am just back from a roundtable conference -- the third annual meeting of a five-year project on Christian Jurisprudence -- at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion.  It was a great time.  In a nutshell, the project convenes two dozen or so scholars (including MOJ-ers Michael Perry and Kathy Brady) -- lawyers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists -- from the Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic Christian traditions for meetings and workshops aimed at, eventually, producting two dozen or so new monographs on "the contributions of modern Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox figures to fundamental questions of law, politics, and society."

Emory's John Witte is the ringleader for the project.  He is, of course, a force of nature.

I presented this paper, on the Freedom of the Church, which will -- I hope -- eventually be part of a book about religious freedom and the separation of church and state, properly understood.  It received a helpfully, but quite forcefully, critical response.