Robert J. Joustra (PhD, University of Bath) is associate professor of politics and international studies and the founding director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University College. He is the author of The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom and the coauthor of The Church's Social Responsibility, The Persecuted Church, How to Survive the Apocalypse, and God and the Global Order. He is also a board of trustees member for the Center for Public Justice, the co-chair of the board of trustees for the Association for Public Justice, and a steering committee member for the International Reformed Theological Institute. He lives in Ontario, Canada, with his wife, Jessica.