David is the author of numerous best-selling books, with the subjects being drawn largely from his massive library of tens of thousands of original writings from the Founding Era. He also addresses some 400 groups each year.

His exhaustive research has rendered him an expert in historical and constitutional issues. He serves as a consultant to state and federal legislators, has participated in several cases at the Supreme Court and lower courts, was involved in the development of the History/Social Studies standards for states such as Texas and California, and has helped produce history textbooks now used in schools across the nation.

David was named by Time magazine as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals, and he has received numerous national and international awards, including Who's Who in Education and DAR's highest award, the George Washington Honor Medal. His work in media has merited several Angel Awards, Telly Awards, and the Dove Foundation Seal of Approval.

A successful real estate developer and businessman for more than twenty-five years, Don Corace has appeared on Hannity & Colmes, The Neal Boortz Show, and many other media venues and has testified before Congress on property rights issues.

In 1980, Don worked as a drilling rig roughneck and eventually began buying and selling oil and gas leases throughout Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. After the oil industry went into a severe slump in 1983, Don became a successful real estate investor and developer. He also served as a bank director, owned an environmental contracting company, and served as the President of an influential lobbying organization that was actively involved in local and state politics.

Don accurately predicted that gasoline prices would reach $3.00 in 2005 and would escalate further if no comprehensive energy program were implemented to reduce the county's dependence on foreign oil. The program should include drilling in a small portion of the Artic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), rescinding the moratorium on offshore drilling on more than 80% of the country's Outer Continental Shelf, building more nuclear plants and oil refineries, increasing domestic oil and natural gas production, developing clean coal technology, investing in other alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, and hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technologies.

Stephen Coughlin worked on the Joint Staff, J-2 (Intelligence) for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and continues to work in an advisory capacity at the Department of Defense. He is the leading government expert on Islamic Doctrine specifically as it relates to Jihad. His work, "To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad," was recently accepted by the National Defense Intelligence College. It deals specifically with Islamic Doctrine dealing with doctrinal drivers of Jihad, and the failure of the United States leadership to learn and understand this doctrine.

Coughlin has a background in law and international business, is a Major in the U. S. Army Reserves, and was activated after 9/11 to serve as a Strategic Targeting Officer for the U. S. forces. He has taught, lectured, and briefed senior members of the DoD, Members of Congress, senior government officials, and many law enforcement and intelligence officers. He is a regular briefer at the Information/Operations course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Joint Forces Staff College. He has briefed at the Navy War College, the Marine Corps War College, and the General Officers of I MEF, United States Marine Corps. His thesis is now mandatory reading for staff officers at CENTCOM, I MEF and other commands.

Since 2007, Robert Enlow has been the Executive Director and COO of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting universal school choice. He joined the Friedman Foundation when it first opened in 1996, previously serving as fundraiser, projects coordinator and vice president.

Under his leadership, the Friedman Foundation has become one of the nation's leading advocates for school choice, working in dozens of states to advance the issue by disseminating research, sponsoring seminars, undertaking advertising campaigns, organizing community leaders and providing grants.

He is the co-editor of the book Liberty and Learning, Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty, co-author of School Choice: A Reform that Works, and author of Grading Vouchers, Ranking America's School Choice Programs, and "Early School Choice" (a chapter in An Education Agenda: Let Parents Choose Their Children's School). His articles and quotes have appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Arizona Republic and National Review.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin is head of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, a non-profit organization working to advance our nation toward the traditional Judeo-Christian values that defined America's creation and became the blueprint for her greatness. Daniel is not only a gifted communicator and ardent advocate for faith, family & fortune but he is also a Jewish community leader, broadcaster, scholar, speaker and author. In 2007, Newsweek listed Daniel as one of America's fifty most influential rabbis.

Before immigrating to the United States in 1973, Rabbi Lapin studied Torah, physics, economics and mathematics in Johannesburg, London, and Jerusalem, producing his bedrock conviction that no conflict exists between the physical and spiritual, virtue and strength, or faith and wealth. He quickly became persuaded that God continues to smile on the United States of America and he became a naturalized citizen on what he describes as the proudest day of his life.

Rabbi Lapin was the keynote speaker at the Congressional Bi-Partisan opening of the 106th Congress in Washington, D. C., and speaks regularly at universities, businesses, synagogues and churches across the country. He regularly appears on both national and local radio and television shows and hosts his own daily program on San Francisco's KSFO.

Rabbi Lapin is a noted writer, with his articles appearing publications such as the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Commentary, The Jewish Press, The American Enterprise, The Washington Times, Crisis, and other publications. His first book, America's Real War was a national best seller.

Bob McEwen is Senior Advisor with the national law firm of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald and maintains offices in Cincinnati and Washington, D. C. He is a leading advocate for pro-family interests and free-market economics and maintains an active international speaking schedule.

An Ohio native, McEwen, served three terms in the Ohio General Assembly, and six terms in the United States House of Representatives, where he was selected to the Select Committee on Intelligence (which oversees all of our nation's secrets) and the House Committee on Rules (which has jurisdiction over all legislation in the Congress).

In 1989, Congressman McEwen and U. S. Senator Robert Dole were U. S. observers in Warsaw, Poland for the first-ever parliamentary election of a non-Communist leader of a Soviet bloc country. Hours later, the new Prime Minister, in his first official act, received the two before meeting with the Soviet representatives of the regime that had occupied that nation for fifty years. This was the spark that encouraged the collapse of Soviet-dominated governments throughout Eastern Europe, culminating in the destruction of the Berlin Wall ten weeks later.

McEwen also sponsored the National Strategy Act that realigned the chain of command during times of hostilities, which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and General Norman Schwarzkopf credited with playing a major role in the success of Operation Desert Storm.

Eric Rassbach
National Litigation Director
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

New Advances in Educational Choice (Including How to Deal with Blaine Amendments)

Property Rights & RLUIPA (Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act)

Eric Rassbach is the National Litigation Director for the Becket Fund's domestic litigation practice. Since coming to The Becket Fund in 2004, Eric has represented religious litigants across the nation. He has litigated cases in the United States Supreme Court, state and federal courts of appeals and in the European Court of Human Rights, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

Eric holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Haverford College. He was also a scholarship student at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. At Harvard, Eric was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for U. S. District Court Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in Houston.

Rick Tyler is a senior partner at Chesapeake Associates. He is the Director of Media Relations for Gingrich Communications and serves as the spokesman for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

Tyler has worked for local, congressional and state-wide campaigns, and has professionally trained candidates, their staffs and volunteers since 1996 in seminars across the nation. As a result, hundreds have conducted successful campaigns for elected office.

Tyler addresses numerous groups, committees, and state legislative caucuses nationally, sharing his political insights. He has also been interviewed by numerous news and political radio and television programs and hosts his own radio program.

Tim Brooks is the Senior Pastor of Christian Ministries Church and founder of Applied Life Ministries. Tim has been ministering the Word of God for over 25 years, impacting people's lives with his "down-to-earth" and "practical" messages. Tim has grown up in the ministry under his parents, Don and Hettie Lue Brooks, who founded Brookhill Christian Summer Camp and birthed the church Tim now pastors.

Each year in the Spring and Fall, Tim also holds men's conferences designed to empower men to be Godly husbands, fathers, and leaders. Tim's practical and funny approach to communicating the truths of the Scripture is simply amazing and inspiring. Men come back year after year to realign and recharge their God-given vision.

Tim and his wife, Terri, also host Enhance Your Romance Marriage Seminars each fall. These life changing, insightful and fun seminars are held in Branson, MO. Tim and Terri have encouraged and strengthened countless couples in their marriage. Many of the couples that attend repeat each year to give their marriage the "shot in the arm" it needs to remain health and strong.

The ministry of Tim Brooks will impact and change you and your family in a positive and impactful way. Tim has a heart to help equip the body of Christ and to minister to the needs of each individual.

Passionate communicator and innovative thinker, Louie Giglio began his ministry to college-age students at Baylor University when he established a campus-wide Bible study in 1985. Desiring to see spiritual awakening come to the college campuses around the nation and the world, Louie went on to launch the Passion Conferences in 1997.

Passion Conferences represent a movement that exists to glorify God and unite students in worship and prayer for spiritual awakening in this generation. The Passion movement is on the forefront of modern worship and is sweeping across the nation. As a part of the Passion movement, Louie also heads up Sixstep records, a partnership with Sparrow Records.

Desiring to reach across denomination and ministry lines, Louie began 7:22, a Bible study designed to reach and impact single adults in the metro Atlanta area. Functioning under the umbrella of the local church, 7:22 unites 3,000 singles weekly for worship and teaching.

Louie is the author of The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life and I Am Not but I Know I Am: Little Me, Infinite God, Amazing Life.

David serves as conference worship leader, clinician and teacher for numerous groups and churches throughout the USA. Overseas, he has led music mission teams in the Czech Republic, Russia, and Ukraine.

Building on over thirty years of music leadership and pastoral service, including 17 years in a local church as a Minister of Music, David's ministry crosses denominational boundaries and the spectrum of musical styles from contemporary to traditional. As a studio producer and musician, David has sung, played and led worship for numerous recordings, including Integrity's Hosanna! Music, "Arise and Sing" and "Songs 4 Worship," and has contributed articles and teachings regarding music ministry for a variety of Christian periodicals. His most recent "Freedom's Prayer" patriotic music collection has been widely distributed.

For Dave and his wife, Becky, time together and time with their children has been a top priority. Marriage and family have always been at the heart of their lives and ministry. During their 30 years of marriage, the Grothes have worked hard to make their home a dwelling place for God. The many important lessons they have learned they now share with families around the country in Marriage and Family Seminars and Retreats.

Scott Lindsey's passion is introducing the Church to the potential and power of using technology for Bible study. Scott travels over 100,000 miles per year teaching at over 40 conferences. Scott has trained and worked with the ministries of John Piper, Kay Arthur, David Jeremiah, Jack Hayford, Chuck Swindoll, and many more. Tony Evans calls Scott the "geek with a personality"!

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