John Eidsmoe is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and Judge Advocate and a retired Mississippi State Guard Colonel and Chaplain. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Oak Brook College of Law & Government Policy, and a Professor of Christian Apologetics for the Institute of Lutheran Theology and Chafer Theological Seminary. In his various teaching roles, his students have awarded him Outstanding Professor and Professor of the Year five times. He has served as Senior Staff Attorney with the Alabama Supreme Court and has filed numerous amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts. He is an ordained pastor with the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, for which he serves as Director of Military Chaplaincy, and pastors two rural Alabama churches. He is Chairman of the Board of the Plymouth Rock Foundation, a Board member of Lutherans for Life, Commander of a local American Legion Post, and is Grand Officer, Knight Commander, and Chaplain with the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem. He has authored 16 books, including Historical & Theological Foundations of Law (3 vols.), Christianity & the Constitution, Columbus & Cortez, and God & Caesar, and has produced numerous DVD albums, including the Institute on the Constitution. He hosts the radio program Constitution Classroom and speaks worldwide for churches and civic organizations. He is a Third Degree Black Belt with the American Taekwondo Foundation and a Fifth Degree Black Belt with the Gospel Martial Arts Union. He and his wife Marlene have been married since 1970, have three children (David, Kirsten, and Justin), and live in rural Pike Road, Alabama.