Mark Movsesian

For FT readers in the area, I’ll be giving a talk, “Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones,” next week at the European University Institute in Florence. My talk will be sponsored by the Institute’s ReligioWest project. Here’s the abstract: The most important story in . . . . Continue Reading »

Last month, I  wrote about a controversy surrounding the White House’s  inclusion of a yoga garden  in its annual Easter Egg Roll. The problem is this: yoga is a Hindu spiritual practice. Arguably, therefore, state-sponsored yoga is a religious endorsement that violates the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear  Town of Greece v. Galloway , a case out of New York in which the Second Circuit held, in an  opinion  by Judge Guido Calabresi, that the town’s practice of allowing  private citizens to open town board meetings with a  prayer . . . . Continue Reading »

A report in last week’s Telegraph  suggests that British Christianity is  declining more rapidly  than previously understood. Initial reports about the 2011 census showed the number of people in England and Wales who describe themselves as Christians had fallen by 10 percent . . . . Continue Reading »

According to reports in the Arab media and Reuters, Saudi Arabia has convicted a Lebanese man of “evangelism” and sentenced him to six years in prison and 300 lashes. According to reports, the man, an Evangelical Christian, converted a Saudi woman in her 20s to Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Prodromou, a former Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, has some harsh words for the commission’s  annual report , issued last month. Prodromou  sharply criticizes  USCIRF and the entire U.S. foreign policy team for . . . . Continue Reading »

At the  Center for Law and Religion Forum , University of Michigan law professor Dan Crane has been doing an interesting series of posts on the under-representation of Evangelicals within America’s legal elite. Dan notes that Evangelicals do not seem overly bothered by the fact that . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted earlier this week about the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s special report on  violations of religious liberty in Syria . Also this week, USCIRF issued its annual, comprehensive (364 pages) report on  religious freedom around the world . It makes for . . . . Continue Reading »

You might not have noticed it, but today is the National Day of Prayer. I should say,  a  National Day of Prayer, as that’s what the US Code calls it. Every year,  by law , the President issues a proclamation “designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of . . . . Continue Reading »

At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , Michigan Law School’s Dan Crane writes about the absence of Evangelical Christians among America’s legal elites : My strong intuition is that evangelicals are grossly underrepresented in the legal elite.  To focus again on the (admittedly . . . . Continue Reading »