Director, Religion and Society Studies Center Editor, The Religion & Society Report

Dr. Brown is Professor of Theology at The Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.  With C. Everett Koop, M.D., he founded the Christian Action Council.  He serves as professor of theology and human rights in the summer program of the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in Strasbourg, France.

Educated primarily at Harvard University, where he earned the A.B., B.D., Th.M., and Ph.D., he also studied at the Universities of Marburg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, on Fullbright and Danforth fellowships.  He was ordained at Second Congregational Church in Beverly, Massachusetts.  He has served as theological secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Lausanne, Switzerland; as professor of theology at Trinity and at institutions in Basel, Switzerland, and Yeotmal, India; and as pastor of the Evangelical-Reformed Church in Klosters, Switzerland. In 1987 he was named to the Forman Chair in Theology and Ethics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a post which he had until 1998.

Dr. Brown is a contributing editor to Christianity Today.  He has written for Human Life Review, The Times (London), Die Welt (Hamburg), National Review, Eternity, and the Boston Herald.  In addition to his most recent work, The Sensate Culture: Western Civilization Between Chaos and Transformation, his published books include The Protest of a Troubled Protestant, Christianity and the Class Struggle, Death Before Birth, The Reconstruction of the Republic, and Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy From the Apostles to the Present.

He and his wife, Grace, have two children and live in Deerfield, Illinois