As is evident by where and how we mark this event - in a church, accompanied by prayer and song - Trinity Law School, and the university of which it is a part, is Christian. "Christian" may seem a mere adjective that modifies "university" or "law school" in the same way that "regional" or "California" might. This temptation arises from a belief - widely held, though rarely challenged, in contemporary culture - that a Christian school is just a secular school except with idiosyncratic accouterments, such as mandatory chapel, rules about personal moral conduct, and a commitment to a list of religious dogmas to which its faculty must subscribe. Although these differences are of no small consequence, they are not, or ought not to be, at the heart of an institution that...