Retired Justice Alan Lawson joins Dr. Case Thorp of The Collaborative for a conversation about faith and the bench, the pressures judges carry, the tension between mercy and mandatory sentences, and his family’s work in Honduras.
Every lawyer knows the feeling of stepping into someone else’s chaos. Michael Kelley on why the rooms where lawyers work — the mediation table, the deposition, the boardroom — can be holy ground, and what that asks of the Christian lawyer.
If legal conflict is holy ground, how then should a Christian lawyer practice? Michael Kelley on the two errors to reject — passivity and domination — and on the difference between a lawful tool and a fleshly weapon.