he's the distinguished professor of the social sciences at baylor university. a director of the program on pro social behavior. he's a leading authority on the scientific study of religion, the efficacy faith based organizations and criminal justice. johnson's recent publications have examined the impact of faith-based programs on recidivism reduction and prisoner re-entry. please join me in welcoming dr. byron johnson. [ applause ] >> good evening. the museum of the bible has many wonderful exhibits that i hope you all will get a chance to see. many are historical, contemporary, and truly amazing. well, lectures and symposia and the many consequential ways the bible is important to american society. tonight looking at the connection between the bible and religious freedom. the founders of our nation and the forbearers had an unusual experiment and it had to do with a lot of things including religious freedom. one of the most iconic symbols of that religious freedom is the liberty bell and some of you may have had a chance to see a replica of it on the second f

she's also a nonresident fellow at the institute for studies of religion at baylor. recent projects have focused on launching the black church commission on bioethics, human life and marriage and an international symposium on marriage and the family hosted by the vatican. she holds a ph.d. from harvard where she was a doctoral fellow in inequality and social policy and a graduate research fellow of the national science foundation. she's presented at many universities across the country. her latest publication appears in the volume not just good but beautiful and in the book the cultural matrix by harvard press. you're in for a real treat as jackie comes to share this paper, the black church enacting the biblical mandate for religious freedom. dr. ckie rivers. [ applause ] >>> good evening. i'm truly honored to be here with you, and i'm absolutely wowed by the museum. my congratulations go to those who put it together, and it's wonderful to have something like this right here in the heart of washington, d.c., the nation's capital. and professor wilkens talked about ha

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on friday i spoke with baylor on the lakers court about his all-star career.titled "hang time, my life in baseball" which comes out this week. take a listen. >> it's quite a book. in the early part of it you talk about riding on a plane with jerry west. you're both on the way to d.c. he says to you, you need a statue. you should have a statue. >> you say, i don't need that. over the course of that you say, no, it wouldn't be bad at all. you are a very humble man. you're not somebody who's prone to bragging but if you could put into words, what does it mean to you to have this city, to have this arena honor you with a statue of your own? >> just wonderful, you know? really, it's a surprise to me. i didn't know people felt that way. but i thought it was the enjoyment of playing the basketball game. this is part of my life. you know, i'm very tankful. >> you wrote about growing up in washington d.c. it's a harrowing tale in the 40s and 50s and different with the segregation, and humiliation. talk a little bit about what growing up in that environment, how did tha

he went to college in waco, texas, in the institution that became baylor. he was horrified by the treatment of african-americans that he saw in reconstruction texas, the violence directed against them. he became a republican, which was not necessarily a good career move in texas at that point in time. he held some minor public offices, but the failure of reconstruction, the collapse of the republican party, and that as done. now, he took a strange turn iven this genealogy. in 1872, he married. the woman he married was named lucy and she was african-american. this was a very unconventional thing in that time period. they were a deeply devoted couple, and after her death lucy became something of an anarchist heroine, lecturer, and writer. the couple went to chicago in 1873 looking to get out of texas into a different line of work. e first got a job setting type for a printing company. he then became a journalist. in 1876, the economy anked. there was a deep depression and this was the beginning of what we can trace as his pathway to eing an anarchist. he join

baylor university came in for three years and looked at the schools where we had the violence-free zone and we saw a dramatic reduction in suspensions, gang-related activity, so, there were measures that we have in terms of reductions of-- in violent offenses and things like that. in fact, the police department told us that there was a 63% reduction in car thefts in areas contiguous with the schools. we never anticipated that. and so, but so that there is some hard data that can be forth coming. the challenge is that we tend to devalue, or depreciate the importance of indigenous intervention. you know, that it's almost as if researchers are saying, give us something that we are familiar with and processes that we were taught, rather than coming in and trying to find unique and different tools that can be applied. that's when i'm missing that, i don't hear many people saying how can we as researchers come together and come up with a different and unique way of assessing that or being a resource to that. >> these are good points and i want to come back to christine on something and first

the museum of the bible and the baylor institute for studies of religion co-hosted this hour-long event. >> i'm tony weiss, and i'm the director of the museum and i hope you come to know it as your museum because it's the community's museum, in fact, it's the world's musz yum. we are going to be live on c-span tonight. thank you so much, fellas, for what you've done. were

the museum of the bible and the baylor institute co-host this had hour long event. >>> i'm tony zeiss, the director of the museum

baylor from texas. >> are we using the department of defense dollars or department of homeland security dollars to pay for the national guard deployment? >> the national guard deployment is funded by the department of defense. the with respect to the issue of hiring, i mentioned this, we pass that polygraph field out of the house. but even then, even if we were able to get that through the senate and signed by the president, given the shortfall, the i appreciate the numbers were you throwing out with respect to 800 hires over three years, even then, that's still really well short of the goals and i'm not really suggesting it's anybody's fault. it seems to me that we need to take a really new look at the way we're addressing that. and what i have, and ever since i brought this up with chief patelo back home, talk to our sheriffs just last week. it seems to me that one of the things we might want to really take a look at, is focusing on hiring people that are closer to the location where they're going to be sent. what i'm hearing from law enforcement personnel on the ground, not necessari

he has spoken at arizona university, baylor university, byu, and a lot of other universities that i will not list. in addition to that, he has published on topics related to investorsfreedom business daily and has appeared , on cnn and other television networks. he holds his ba in magnum cum laude phd from princeton university. he wrote a dissertation under the direction of robert p george, one of our favorites here. on the subject of a legal obligation. he participated in the program of law and public affairs and bioethics forum. dr. mark was appointed to the u.s. commission on international religious freedom on may 9. by then, speaker of the house john boehner reappointed on may 16 by the speaker of the house paul ryan for a two-term expiring this may. we're so grateful to have such a distinguished scholar with us this evening. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. daniel mark. [applause] dr mark: thank you for the kind, generous long introduction. [laughter] mark: i hope the rest isn't a letdown after this. i was not informed we were competing on interface jokes coming up here so i

in addition to speaking here in his book and arizona university, baylor, byu and a lot of other groups at the universities i'm not going to list off. in addition to his academic writing, he has published on topics related to international religious freedom in u.s. news & world report's, investors business daily, foreign affairs, the hill and has appeared on cnn, cbs and relevant radio. he holds a ba in. [inaudible] 's he wrote his dissertation under the direction of robert p george, one of our favorites here on the subject of authority and legal obligation. there he participated in the program and law and public affairs and the bioethics forum. doctor mark was appointed to the u.s. commission on international religious freedom on may 9. by then, speaker of the house john boehner and was appointed to speaker the house for a two term that expires this made and we are so grateful to have such a distinguished scholar with us. please welcome doctor daniel mark. [applause] >> good evening everyone. thank you. it is great to be here. thank you for the kind, generous long introduction. i hope

was able to work with a number of professors that spend a lot of time, we have two advisers from baylor university that spend quite a bit of time in classroom. but the depth of evoking the ideas and different ideas whether it's drawing on biblical theme to go to a similar direction or biblical theme to subvert and going in a different direction, this is different and never-ending. >> good afternoon and welcome to book tv on c-span2 and the visit of museum of the bible in washington, d.c., the museum of the bible just opened in november of last year, about 30 million bibles are sold every year, number one best-selling book in the world and our goal for the next hour and a half is to talk about literature and how the bible is used in modern literature, ancient literature, et cetera, et cetera. if you want to participate in our conversation this afternoon, here is how you can do, 202 is the area, 8201 if you live in mountain and pacific times. we will get to the calls in just a few minutes. i wanted to ask you first about the exhibit that you have on band bibles and burning of the bible, w

how to avoid the constitution, but as my constitutional law professor david gwynn used to say at baylor law school, there is only one federal court, tribunal of any kind that owes its existence to the constitution. that's the supreme court. every other federal court owes its existence and its jurisdiction to the united states congress. now that's the constitution. so, as some have said, congress has the power to bring courts into the world and we have the power to take them out. we have the power to say, this is your jurisdiction and no more. or you will take on this area. so we created immigration courts and we do need them and we've got to have them make decisions much more quickly and that's one of the things i'm so grate to feel jeff sessions for. he's appointing great immigration judges, they're making decisions as quickly as possible, so they don't leave people in limbo for years like was done in the past eight. our prior to the prump administration. so making progress there. making progress there. since congress clearly has the power to set the jurisdiction for every federal cour