This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president

to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

in Louisville, Kentucky.

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a former Wall Street Journal

editor and a writer whose work focuses on higher education,

philanthropy, religion, and culture.

She is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals.

Her writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the

Boston Globe, the L.A. Times, and the Washington Post, among

a host of other publications. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in

English in government. Her latest book is published by Oxford University Press.

Its title is, Till Faith to us part,

How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America.

Naomi Schaefer-Reilly, welcome to Thinking in Public.

Thank you. I so appreciate you talking to me.

Naomi your new book, Till Faith Do Us Part,

How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America fills a void that I don't think anyone else has

yet addressed.

And in the book you come to tell us quite naturally how you came

to write this book so why this book why now why you? Well I think they're

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