Jordan J. Ballor serves as executive director of First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy (CRCD), which includes administration as well as pursuit of his own scholarship, popular speaking, and writing. He has previously held research positions at the CRCD, Acton Institute, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and has doctorates in Reformation history from the University of Zurich and in moral theology from Calvin Theological Seminary. Ballor’s scholarly interests include Reformation studies, church-state relations, theological anthropology, social ethics, theology and political economy, and research methodology. His work at the CRCD manifests his passion for combining a robust theological understanding of social life with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the development of civil society.