Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics,

Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

We're here today with a special guest Dr. Daniel Drieser. School of Theology here at Biola University.

We're here today with a special guest,

Dr Daniel Dr. Drysbach, professor

from American University in Washington, D.C.

One of the leading experts in the country

on the subject of religious freedom, particularly religious freedom as the founding fathers envisioned it and the impact of the Bible on the American constitutional tradition.

Daniel has both a JD and a D-fill,

a JD from the University of Virginia,

a D-fill from Oxford University,

where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

He's the author of several books.

The one I think that our listeners would be the most interested in is his most recent one

entitled, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, published by

Oxford University Press. He's also a specialist on and is published on Thomas

Jefferson, the wall of separation between church and state, what we mean by the whole idea

of the separation of church and state.

We'll get into that as we talk about some of the questions we have specifically for Daniel. So Dan, welcome. Thank you so

much for being with us today. It is my pleasure. Thanks for having me. So tell me first,

you've had a lot of different academic interests. How did you get interested in the subject of

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