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Carl Grant Events Center, Banquet Hall

Mark David Hall will speak at this year’s Constitution Day on Tuesday, September 17th at 2 pm and 7 pm in the Carl Grant Events Center. Hall has multiple books on the Founding Era and the impact of Christianity on the flourishing of America’s constitutional experiment. Hall is a Professor at Regent University’s Robertson School of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, an initiative of First Liberty Institute. His most recent books are Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism: Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church (Fidelis Books, 2024), Proclaim Liberty Through All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans (Fidelis, 2023), and Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth (Nelson Books, 2019).

He will speak at 2 pm in the Grant Center on “Why Tolerate Religion? The Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America.” This lecture will explain the Founder’s view of religious liberty, how there was a consensus on protecting minority religions by the mid-20th Century, why this view fell out of favor, and how we need to return to it.

He will then speak again at 7 pm in the Grant Center. This lecture is entitled “Tilting at Windmills: The “Threat” of Christian Nationalism. ” He will explain that Christian nationalism exists, the threat is overstated, and that there are prudential, biblical, and theological reasons for rejecting Christian nationalism.

The events are free and open to the public.

Mark David Hall