Freedom of conscience is an indispensable right that we cannot jettison. Yet, does a commitment to soul liberty require what Williams said he abhorred, namely, “an infinite liberty of conscience”? Can any society, including our own, withstand unlimited religious and moral pluralism?

Cory Higdon
Cory Higdon is a PhD candidate at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He serves as Director of Theological Research in the Office of the President and as an adjunct faculty in history and humanities at Boyce College. Cory's research focuses on the history of religious liberty, especially seventeenth-century colonial America. His scholarship has been featured in The Journal of Church and State, Public Discourse, Providence Magazine, and presented at the Evangelical Theological Society and the American Society of Church History. Cory and his wife Amelia have three kids, and live in Louisville, Kentucky.