Constitution Day Lectures: Mark David Hall
September 17, 2024: 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Carl Grant Events Center, Banquet Hall
will speak at this year鈥檚 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鈥檚 constitutional experiment. Hall is a Professor at Regent University鈥檚 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 (Fidelis Books, 2024), (Fidelis, 2023), and (Nelson Books, 2019).
He will speak at 2 pm in the Grant Center on 鈥淲hy Tolerate Religion? The Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America.鈥� This lecture will explain the Founder鈥檚 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 鈥淭ilting at Windmills: The 鈥淭hreat鈥� of Christian Nationalism. 鈥� 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