Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Jay Wesley Richards is a Visiting Fellow in for The Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society. Richards, a former Teaching Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, currently serves as a Research Fellow and Director of Media at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

He also is the executive producer of the documentaries The Call of the Entrepreneur and The Birth of Freedom. From 1996 until 1998, Richards served as the executive and associated editor of The Princeton Theological Review, as well as the president of the Charles Hodge Society at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Richards is the author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem, published by HarperCollins in May of 2009. He has also been published in a number of prestigious academic journals, including Religious Studies, Christian Scholars' Review, The Heythrop Journal, Encounter, The Princeton Theological Review, and Perspectives on Science and theChristian Faith. He has had editorials featured in The Washington Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and on IntellectualCapital.com. He also has appeared on Larry King Live.