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John Witte, Jr.

John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Foundation Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.

"We set a common table for people to share their expertise and to be edified by the expertise of others, we get everyone to be bold enough to try out their raw ideas and to refine those ideas through deep conversation, and we engage in earnest and daring conversation that cuts across different schools, different disciplines, different ideologies."

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Frank S. Alexander

Frank S. Alexander is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and founding director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Alexander founded Emory's Law and Religion Program in 1982.

"The work of law and religion allows me to understand my ministry and to interpret it; but my work as a practicing attorney — which I view as a ministry — also informs my understanding of law and faith. I can’t do one without the other."

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In Their Own Words

"There’s a natural sense that everything we want to do we ought to do, which needs to be somehow tempered by the notion that maybe there are things that we can do that we shouldn’t do. "

–Michael J. Broyde