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John Inazu

John Inazu

Author | Speaker | S. D. D. Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion — Washington University in St. Louis

John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches criminal law, religion and law, and various First Amendment courses. He writes and speaks frequently to general audiences on topics of pluralism, assembly, free speech, religious freedom, and other issues. Inazu is the author of Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (Chicago, 2016). He is co-editor (with Tim Keller) of Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference (Thomas Nelson, 2020). Inazu is also the executive director of The Carver Project.

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Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

As a constitutional scholar, legal expert, and former litigator, John has spent his career learning how to disagree well with other people. In Learnin...

Featured on: Monday, April 1, 2024

Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference

How can Christians today interact with those around them in a way that shows respect to those whose beliefs are radically different but that also rema...

Featured on: Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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Kerby Anderson

Commitment

Lack of commitment is one of the biggest problems in marriage and relational formation.

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Kerby Anderson

UFOs and God

In all my years of doing a radio commentary, I have only mentioned UFOs and extraterrestrials a few times. I recently did an interview with Derrick Warfel about his book, UFOs and God, which is a comp...

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