Mark Movsesian

The annual conference on Christian Legal Thought, co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Law Professors Christian Fellowship, will take place in New York next year on January 3. This year’s theme is the work of the late Jean Bethke Elshtain. Details, including a link for . . . . Continue Reading »

At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , my colleague Marc DeGirolami has a rundown of the various appellate court rulings to date in the ACA Contraceptives Mandate litigation, including last week’s Seventh Circuit decision. Check it out . . . . . Continue Reading »

At Mirror of Justice, my friend Rick Garnett has  an interesting post  about Guy Fawkes Day, which, for those of you who don’t know, was yesterday. The day commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy by British Catholics to blow up Parliament and end the . . . . Continue Reading »

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”508”] Photo from the New York Daily News [/caption] . . . here in New York City, and reader John McGinnis points me to an interesting  New York Times  column on the election’s likely effect on some . . . . Continue Reading »

Religion without God  is the late Ronald Dworkin’s last work, published posthumously in September. It’s a short book; a publisher’s note explains that Dworkin planned to expand the work greatly before he fell ill. Still, the book is important. Not that it says anything . . . . Continue Reading »

A couple of weeks ago, I  posted  about the FBI’s arrest of two rabbis who allegedly orchestrated the kidnapping and torture of dozens of men in New Jersey. The rabbis allegedly did this in order to force the men to consent to their wives’ requests for divorce under Jewish law. . . . . Continue Reading »

Religion News Service has  an interesting interview  with Northwestern’s Elizabeth Shakman Hurd on the promotion of religious freedom in international human rights law. A number of states and regional organizations–including Canada, the EU, and the US–now have special . . . . Continue Reading »

Often, in my class on law and religion at St. John’s, we address difficult questions about where to draw the line on religious autonomy. How far should the state go in accommodating religious practices that conflict with state rules? Or, put in reverse, how much freedom from state control can . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post has a story this week about vandalism at a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem. The vandals toppled stone crosses from graves and smashed them to pieces. The incident is the latest in a string of recent attacks on Christian sites in Israel: The attack joins a list of high-profile . . . . Continue Reading »

You know that interview Pope Francis gave to Eugenio Scalfari of the Italian newspaper,  La Repubblica ? The one in which the pope made some puzzling comments about conscience and proselytism? The one that so many people,  including me , have been poring over for insights into the . . . . Continue Reading »