
Religious Freedom
January 31, 2021
Balancing Public Health and Religious Freedom—Churches and COVID-19
The New York State decision is not going to be the end of the discussion. Other cases are pending. Legislative bodies have...
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January 31, 2021
The New York State decision is not going to be the end of the discussion. Other cases are pending. Legislative bodies have...
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January 16, 2021
This day reminds us that the right to believe in what we choose is an inherent human right. Whether you’re a Christian,...
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January 9, 2021
Enforcing lack of religious dress is intolerant in its own right, and most often happens in democracies. “Europe had the...
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December 15, 2020
The designation holds a special significance. According to Gayle Manchin, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious...
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December 7, 2020
We need to grow up. We need to stop acting like mean girls making fun of our classmates or children fighting over a basketball.
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November 26, 2020
If you live in America you might find this hard to believe. Most people here and in Western countries are accustomed to Christians...
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November 18, 2020
The Pew Research Center just updated its 10-point scale Government Restrictions Index. And it’s depressing: the score has...
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October 28, 2020
It means something that freedom of religion is grouped with the freedoms of thought and conscience because, over the ages,...
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September 6, 2020
It was April 2019, the beginning of Easter celebrations in France. That’s when, to the world’s horror, the 850-year-old...
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September 4, 2020
Three generations earlier the grandparents of the Germans who affirmed our right to believe had engaged in an attack on a...
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September 1, 2020
Religious intolerance is an old story in humanity, nearly as old as religion itself. But tolerance is old too: Cyrus the Great,...
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August 27, 2020
The case has drawn considerable attention not only because of the fate of plaintiff Gerald Bostock, a Clayton County employee...
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July 7, 2020
Watching a condemned person die by hanging was once a public spectacle. Today, that is not the case—there is no entrance...
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May 25, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether the State of Montana can prevent the use of public funds for any educational...
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April 10, 2020
A bill currently pending in the Ohio state legislature has resulted in statements that, if it becomes law, students would...
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April 1, 2020
And now just a few short weeks later, all of us suddenly find ourselves searching for faith elsewhere than where the signs...
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March 29, 2020
A friend of mine who lived among the native Inuits of far Northern Canada told me that if a person in the community, through...
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September 3, 2019
To this day, the assailants that closed in on Ryan’s fallen body and riddled it with rifle and shotgun blasts have not been...
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August 23, 2019
There’s a day that now comes right after the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. Because...
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August 15, 2019
Some smells made customers stay longer. Others had them fleeing the premises. The research also found odors needed to be appropriate—the...
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August 3, 2019
More than 30 years ago, Ivanir dos Santos began combating racial discrimination and promoting rights of members of minority...
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August 3, 2019
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a 40-foot-high cross honoring residents of the Maryland town of Bladensburg...
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July 24, 2019
It was a big event: on its final day, a participant reported, “Close to 900 members of civil society and religious groups...
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June 25, 2019
In the weeks prior to the tragic raid, one such demagogue, the notorious convicted felon Rick Ross of the now defunct Cult...
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May 29, 2019
Religion is extremely valuable to society, but only when people are free to examine the subject for themselves and draw the...
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February 26, 2019
The origins of Islam in the U.S. today trace back to one simple concept, one word, three syllables: sla-ve-ry. When Ilhan...
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February 22, 2019
The case seems simple at first. Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray was convicted in 1995 of the rape and murder of a 15-year old...
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February 6, 2019
Reading this recent article about a jailed neo-Nazi trying to hide behind “religious freedom” to protect his hate speech...
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February 4, 2019
Somewhere, thousands of years before Christ, deep in China, a spark was lit. We don’t know if it was a man or a woman but...
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January 20, 2019
Probably everyone reading this post has personally observed the large and growing problem of homelessness in the United States....
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