Mark Movsesian

For those who are interested, our latest podcast at the Center for Law and Religion Forum is on the Supreme Court’s decision this week in Holt v. Hobbs, the prison beard case. My colleague Marc DeGirolami and I analyze the holding and discuss its implications for religious liberty. You can listen to the podcast here. Continue Reading »

The murders at Charlie Hebdo were not justified, and we oughtn’t surrender our values to placate Islamists. But it’s worth remembering that much of the world, not only Islamists, sees things rather differently from us. Continue Reading »

Past presidents have visited the cathedral, but none has attended a Christmas liturgy. Continue Reading »

To all who celebrate, a very Merry Christmas. And Happy Theophany. Continue Reading »

Did Egypt’s president just call for a radical rethinking of Islam? Continue Reading »

A holiday recipe Continue Reading »

From Foreign Policy, a moving essay on how Iraqi Christians are observing this Christmas season. Last month, the author, Christian Caryl, visited Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Chaldean-rite Catholics, refugees from ISIS’s summer campaign, live in tents in a church courtyard: Continue Reading »

Whatever the formal policy, the MTA appears to apply it in a rather arbitrary way. Continue Reading »

Requiring church ads—and only church ads—to include disclaimers is a kind of disparagement that places churches at an unfair disadvantage in the marketplace of ideas. Continue Reading »

I used to think that the annual Christmas Wars were strictly an American thing, like corn dogs and attorneys’ contingency fees. Only in America, I thought, do people seriously argue about whether to allow Christmas trees in public parks or to permit public school choirs to sing “Silent Night” at holiday concerts. The issues become more and more bizarre. This year, a Maryland school district decided to remove even a reference to “Christmas” in the school calendar–as though the reference amounted to religious oppression and removal would make people forget what holiday comes round every 25th of December. Continue Reading »