About
Mark David Hall
Director, Religious Liberty in the States
Mark David Hall is a professor in Regent University’s Robertson School of Government and a senior fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy. He is also Distinguished Scholar of Christianity & Public Life at George Fox University, associated faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and senior fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion.
Mark earned a BA in political science from Wheaton College (IL) and a PhD in Government from the University of Virginia. He has written, edited, or co-edited fifteen books, including Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism: Why Christian Nationalism is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church (Fidelis Publishing, 2024); Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans (Fidelis Publishing, 2023); Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth (Nelson Books, 2019); Great Christian Jurists in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2019); America and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019); Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2014); Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2013); America’s Forgotten Founders (ISI Books, 2011); The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009); The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (Liberty Fund Press, 2009); The Founders on God and Government (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798 (University of Missouri Press, 1997).
Paul Mueller
Associate Director, Religious Liberty in the States
Paul Mueller is a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Paul received his PhD in economics from George Mason University and taught at The King's College in Manhattan. He has published articles in a variety of journals, from the Adam Smith Review to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization to The Review of Austrian Economics. Dr. Mueller has written a book on the 2008 Financial Crisis published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. His work has also appeared in popular outlets like USA Today, Fox News, and The Hill. Dr. Mueller lives with his wife and five children in Leadville, CO, and owns a bed and breakfast called The Abbey.
Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy
The Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy envisions democratic societies that affirm the essential role of religious convictions, peoples, and institutions in cultivating free and flourishing communities. To achieve its vision, the CRCD supports the creation and promotion of high-quality scholarship at the intersection of religion, culture, and democracy.
Our publications, programming, and resources affirm the importance of religion as a public good for strengthening social bonds and reinforcing foundational freedoms. The CRCD is an initiative of First Liberty Institute, the nation’s largest legal organization exclusively defending religious liberty for all Americans. FLI believes that every American of any faith—or no faith at all—has a fundamental right to follow their conscience and live according to their beliefs.
Standard of Research and Integrity of This Project
The Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy (CRCD) is committed to the highest established standards of principles and responsibilities for research. The CRCD affirms these principles and responsibilities as outlined in the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity. The principles in the Singapore Statement are commitments to (1) “Honesty in all aspects of research,” (2) “Accountability in the conduct of research,” (3) “Professional courtesy and fairness in working with others,” and (4) “Good stewardship of research on behalf of others.” Part of this commitment to research integrity involves responding appropriately to criticisms, concerns, and questions about research methodology and findings of research. For that reason, the CRCD promotes a culture of discourse consistent with The HxA Way. Errors of fact that are discovered in the work of the CRCD will be acknowledged, corrected, and noted in subsequent publication and distribution.