In his first presentation for the 2014 Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State, Michael Meyerson discusses religious support for the separation of church and state in colonial America.

A professor of law and Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore, Meyerson is also the author of three books, including Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, and numerous law review articles and book chapters.

The 2014 Shurden Lectures were held on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. To learn more about the annual event, visit www.BJConline.org/lectures.