The Francis Wayland Institute

Christianity · Liberty · Property · Peace

P.O. Box 11781 · Pensacola, FL  32524 · 850-474-1626


About the Director, Laurence M. Vance


Besides serving as the director of the Francis Wayland Institute, Laurence M. Vance, Ph.D., is a teacher, an author, a publisher, a freelance writer, and the editor of the Classic Reprints series. He holds degrees in history, theology, accounting, and economics. The author of fifteen books, he regularly contributes articles and book reviews to both secular and religious periodicals. Dr. Vance's writing interests include free market economics, taxation, government spending and corruption, the socialism and statism of conservative pundits and Republican politicians, Baptist theology, English Bible history, Greek grammar, and the folly of war. He is a regular columnist for LewRockwell.com, and blogs for LewRockwell.com, Mises.org, and Antiwar.com. Dr. Vance is a member of the Society of Bible Literature, the Grace Evangelical Society, and the International Society of Bible Collectors, and is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. 

Laurence M. Vance: "Champion of Liberty and Peace"--Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute