Intertwining faith and legal procedure
Christian-based law schools aim to graduate students with higher ethical leanings
By MARY FLOOD
Nov. 13, 2007

Some constitutional law classes begin with the professor challenging a student with probing questions about the separation of church and state.

Others start with a five-minute prayer.

Or they might if they're one of the growing number of Christian law schools in the country. The idea at these schools is to intertwine, not separate out, the tenets of one or more branches of Christianity into the legal curriculum.

Soon to join this fold will be a Louisiana law school named for a retired Harris County jurist active in the Southern Baptist Convention. the rest