Additional Writing and Speaking
OTHER WRITING
“The Virus Without a Vaccine,” Hedgehog Review Blog (December 3, 2020)
“SCOTUS Gets it Right on Religious Liberty,” Christianity Today (November 26, 2020)
“Obeying God Rather than Men? What’s Really a Religious Liberty Issue?” Christianity Today (July 31, 2020)
“Protest and Spectacle in Lafayette Square,” Hedgehog Review Blog (June 18, 2020)
“Breaking Out of the White Evangelical Echo Chamber,” Christianity Today (February 10, 2020)
“Tribute to Judge Roger L. Wollman,” 911 F.3d XXXIII (8th Cir. 2018)
“Why I’m Still Confident About Confident Pluralism,” Christianity Today (August 13, 2018)
“Beyond the Legality of Executive Orders,” Hedgehog Review Blog (February 16, 2017)
“Princeton Seminary, Presbyterian Pastors, and Purpose,” Hedgehog Review Blog (March 28, 2017)
“Christian Witness in an Anxious Age,” Christianity Today (June 20, 2016) (with Timothy Keller)
“Confident Pluralism, Expressive Association, and ‘Tone,’” Prawfsblawg (June 7, 2016) (response to Mark Tushnet)
“Confident Pluralism: A Response,” First Things (May 31, 2016) (Response to Carl Trueman)
“Which Religious-Liberty Protections Mean Something? A Question for Jonathan Merritt,”Hedgehog Review Blog (April 29, 2016)
“Across the Great Divides: Why America Needs a More Confident Pluralism,” Hedgehog Review (Fall 2015)
“The Rights of Assembly and Petition,” National Constitution Center (2015) (with Burt Neuborne)
“How to Protect Religious Groups You Admire,” Christianity Today (August 4, 2015) (with Michael McConnell and Richard Garnett)
“Hope in Ferguson,” Wash U. Voices (August 3, 2015)
“The Incomprehensible Witness of Forgiveness,” Hedgehog Review Blog (June 25, 2015)
“What to Expect After the Supreme Court’s Marriage Decision,” Christianity Today (April 28, 2015)
“Pluralism Doesn’t Mean Relativism,” Christianity Today (April 6, 2015)
“Is Religious Freedom Imperiled?” Hedgehog Review Blog (March 20, 2015)
“What is Truth in Ferguson and New York City?” Hedgehog Review Blog (December 17, 2014)
“Protests, Assembly, and the Public Forum,” Yale Books Unbound (December 12, 2014)
“Law and Violence,” Hedgehog Review Blog (November 26, 2014)
“5 Guidelines for Living in a Pluralist Society,” Christianity Today (October 10, 2014)
“Virtual Assembly and the Legal Limits of Digital Dualism” The Infernal Machine (September 24, 2014)
“The Perverse Effects of the ‘All Comers’ Requirement,” Liberty Law Blog (September 15, 2014)
“The Right of Assembly Violently Wrested,” Hedgehog Review Blog (September 11, 2014)
“Let’s Talk About Race,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (August 14, 2014)
“Freedom of the Church Not Freedom of Religion,” Liberty Law Online Forum (August 7, 2014)
“Religious Freedom vs. LGBT Rights? It’s More Complicated,” Christianity Today (July 16, 2014)
“The First Amendment Decision Nobody’s Talking About,” Christianity Today (July 1, 2014) (discussing McCullen v. Coakley and Hobby Lobby)
“The Right of Assembly” in Heritage Guide to the Constitution (David Forte, ed. 2012)
“The Works of Robert Cover,” Journal of Christian Legal Thought (Spring 2011)
“Siding With Sameness,” Raleigh News & Observer (July 1, 2010)
OTHER SPEAKING
“To a Thousand Generations”
Installation of Kristen Deede Johnson (with Fleming Rutledge and James Davison Hunter)
Western Seminary (2022)
“COVID, Churches, and Culture Wars”
Symposium on Preparing for the Next Pandemic
University of St. Thomas School of Law (2021)
“Living Faithfully in a World of Difference” (with Tim Keller, Kristen Deede Johnson, Lecrae, Warren Kinghorn, Trillia Newbell, Sara Groves, Claude Alexander, Shirley Hoogstra, Rudy Carrasco, Tom Lin, and Tish Harrison Warren, moderated by John Hendrix) (2020)
Christianity Today and The Carver Project
“The Importance of Religious Pluralism” (with Eboo Patel)
Sarah Lawrence College (2019)
“Holmes, Humility, and How Not to Kill Each Other”
University of Notre Dame (2018)
“Barnette and the Four Freedoms”
Florida International University (2018)
“Confident Pluralism”
Alumni Author Speaker Series
Duke Law School (2017)
“Confident Pluralism and the University” (with Stanley Hauerwas and Larycia Hawkins)
University of Virginia (2016)
“Recent Trends in Religion, Law, and Culture”
Faith and Law (Capitol Hill) (2016)
“Religious Liberty and the Expanding Circle of Civil Rights: Conflict and Accommodation”
Missouri State University (2015)
“The First Amendment’s Public Forum”
Symposium on The Contemporary First Amendment: Speech, Press, and Assembly
William & Mary School of Law (2014)
“The Meaning of the 2014 Election” (with Kirsten Powers)
Roanoke College (2014)
Roundtable on Confident Pluralism (with Richard Garnett, Randy Kozel, Jeff Pojanowski, Bryan McGraw, Kristen Deede Johnson, Steven Smith, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Will Baude, Patrick Deneen, Chad Flanders, and Timothy Zick)
Program on Church, State, and Society
Notre Dame Law School (2014)
“Is the Supreme Court Threatening Religious Groups?” (debate with Nelson Tebbe)
Murphy Institute, University of St. Thomas School of Law (2013)
“The Limits of Integrity”
Conference on Theological Argument in the Law (conference organizer)
Duke University School of Law (2011)
“Personal Forgiveness in Transitional Justice”
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2008)
Confident Pluralism at University of Kentucky (2020); Missouri Humanities Council (2019); Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS) (2019); Calvin College (January Series) (2018); University of Notre Dame (2018); Renmin University (Beijing) (2017); Fordham Law School (2017); Fuller Theological Seminary (2016); Baylor University (Kuyper Lecture, Center for Public Justice) (2016); Gordon College (response by Peter Berger) (2016); Harvard Law School (2014).
Faculty workshops at Duke Law School, Notre Dame Law School, University of Missouri Law School, St. Louis University School of Law, Kentucky Law School, Marquette Law School, Pepperdine Law School, Wake Forest Law School, St. Thomas (Minnesota) Law School, Denver Law School, North Carolina School of Law, the University of California (Davis) Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, Minnesota Law School, Washington University School of Law, Washington University Political Theory Workshop, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Other conference presentations include Harvard University (2007 Graduate Conference in Political Theory); St. John’s University School of Law (2010 Religious Legal Theory Conference), Campbell Law School (2011 Symposium on “Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Christianity”), University of Oklahoma Law School (2011 Conference on Catholic Legal Thought); Northwestern University (2011 Law and Religion Roundtable); Southeastern Association of Law Schools (2012 Panel on “Fifty Years after Engel v. Vitale”), University of San Diego School of Law (2012 Freedom of the Church Conference); Elon University School of Law (2012 Symposium on Emerging Issues in First Amendment Religious Liberty Jurisprudence); DePaul University School of Law (2013 Conference on Religious Institutionalism); Stanford Law School (2013 Annual Law and Religion Roundtable); Yale Law School (2014 Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference); University of Notre Dame (2015 Conference on Transcending Orthodoxies).
Participated as invited discussant at University of San Diego Law and Philosophy Institute (2010 Freedom of Association Roundtable); Notre Dame Law School (2011 Roundtable on Paul Horwitz’s “First Amendment Institutions”); Harvard Law School (2012 Law and Religion Roundtable); Templeton Foundation (Freedom of Assembly and Religious Liberty (2013); Washington University School of Law First Amendment Roundtable (2013, 2014); Yale Law School (2013 Free Expression Scholars Conference); University of St. Thomas Murphy Institute (2013 Roundtable on St. Thomas More); Notre Dame Law School (2013 Roundtable on Sean Coyle’s “Dimensions of Politics and English Jurisprudence”); Notre Dame Law School (2014 Roundtable on Nicholas Wolterstorff’s “The Mighty and the Almighty”); Villanova Law School (2014 Libertas Workshop on Religious Freedom)