May 13, 2018
Religious Freedom in the Crosshairs
Thomas Farr joined Judge Ken Starr to discuss religious liberty today in America on Biola University's Think Biblically podcast.
Religious Freedom Institute
May 13, 2018
Thomas Farr joined Judge Ken Starr to discuss religious liberty today in America on Biola University's Think Biblically podcast.
October 11, 2017
March 8, 2017
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Thomas F. Farr is president of the Religious Freedom Institute, an NGO committed to achieving worldwide acceptance of religious liberty. Farr is also a senior fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion and at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2006 to 2018 he was an associate professor of the practice of religion and world affairs at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and senior fellow at the Berkley Center; during 2017 and 2018 he was director of the Religious Freedom Research Project and from 2011 to 2016 director of the Religious Freedom Project, both at the Berkley Center. After a distinguished career in the U.S. Army and the Foreign Service—which included teaching at West Point and the Air Force Academy, serving as an advisor during U.S.-Soviet arms control talks in Geneva, and leading an interagency task force on verification provisions for the START II Treaty—Farr served as the first director of the U.S. State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2003.