Steven Collis – Praying with the Enemy

Brent talks to Steven Collis, the author of a new novel based on a true story called ‘Praying with the Enemy’ published by Shadow Mountain in the States.

A captured American soldier during the Korean War attempts a daring escape for freedom....

Steven is a storyteller and a law professor at the University of Texas School of Law and the faculty director of Texas's Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and Law and Religion Clinic.

• (1:00) The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and Law and Religion Clinic;
• (1:44) The First Amendment and its importance;
• (2:15) The connection between law and religion;
• (4:10) Steven’s books;
• (7:05) Writing history in a nonfiction format;
• (9:00) The two men in the novel;
• (11:50) Ward’s struggle with faith;
• (13:10) The Korean War;
• (14:00) Exercising faith and freedom of conscience in a totalitarian system;
• (16:00) The moral tensions of the two men;
• (20:00) How does faith transcend war and natural boundaries?

Links mentioned in this episode:

Steven T. Collis 'Praying with the Enemy'

Bech-Loghlin First Amendment Center

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