The Witherspoon Institute’s Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, which I direct, is offering two seminars this summer for early-career faculty, and for graduate and law students. Church and State: Religion in the Young American Republic This seminar, held on the campus of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The mandate to finance pharmaceutical abortion (and contraception) impacts the religious freedom of all Americans - not just Roman Catholics, not just Christians, not just religious believers, and not just those who work in institutions that are formally religious (and which are therefore . . . . Continue Reading »
Revisionist history strikes a beat; Into your heart it will seep: Latest example, a materially false opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by Jay Bookman. First, Bookman says he was appalled by “political overreaching,” the second of which involved Terri Schiavo. From . . . . Continue Reading »
The primary point of my first book, The End of Secularism, was to demonstrate that secularism doesn’t do what it claims to do, which is to solve the problem of religious difference. As I look at the administration’s attempt to mandate that religious employers pay for . . . . Continue Reading »
In a rather surreal and (until recently) highly unlikely move, Baroness Warsi, a British Muslim member of the House of Lords, has become one of the most vocal defenders of Christianity in Europe. Her remarks, made in numerous separate public appearances and speeches of late, build on a recent . . . . Continue Reading »
The title says it all, except that Ross will speak on his new book BAD RELIGION (and American politics etc.). Ross will also lead an informal seminar at 4 in the Science Auditorium. Please contact me—plawler@berry.edu.—for further information. Ross, of course, is the youngest and most . . . . Continue Reading »
Give Santorum a comfortable lead in both Michigan and Ohio. They also show that Gingrich is done everywhere but the South. Santorum has big limits, as Pete has described, but they’re not the kind Romney can readily exploit. Santorum and Romney are about even nationwide, and Romney still polls . . . . Continue Reading »
The good folks at the Pew Research Center recently released the results of a survey that gives us some insight into the public reaction to the contraceptive mandate. Conservatives are more likely to think that religious organizations should be exempted, while liberals favor requiring contraceptive . . . . Continue Reading »
British Muslim to Pope: “West Needs Confident Christians” John L. Allen, Jr., National Catholic Reporter The Media’s Lies, Damned Lies, and the 98 Percent Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Get Religion HHS Mandate Lacks Legal Precedent Michael Fragoso, Public Discourse Interview with Sr. . . . . Continue Reading »
My wife, the syndicated San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, has a splendid column out today about the Anti Liberty Obama Free Birth Control Rule imposition. She makes a few points I have not made here, so let’s take a look.First, she notes that the Obama imposition is . . . . Continue Reading »
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