We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
20 governmental leaders or something like that showing up and his congregation were kind enough to indulge our need to say something and to be with them at thistime . it was such an uplifting evening and that kind of thing, the role that house of worship and religious leaders can play in the community as a convener is just absolutely invaluable so i m so glad that we can look forward to doing more of that night and thank you for what you have done and will do and so many others in this room along those lines mike, i want to wait in. i want to say that those of you in the book that say religious freedom remains key to human dignity and flourishing and there s a lot that religious leaders could do or leaders of a moral conscience as well because it s important to think about those that have different world views andperspectives and this conversation . it s a lot that they can do but education is the key. as we w
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