Iowa's Law-Gospel Dialectic
by Carl R. TruemanAn Iowa lawsuit has significance for us all. Continue Reading »
To Save Religious Liberty, Focus on Media Ecology
by Pete SpiliakosThe people who take an active interest in religious-liberty controversies are many, but they are also a minority. And they are a minority that faces hostility from America’s media and lawyer elites. If that minority cannot appeal to the apolitical majority, it will lose. Continue Reading »
Human Rights and the Pan-Orthodox Council
by Mark MovsesianThe Council’s official statements join a list of human rights declarations by religious bodies, all of which conceive of dignity and rights in ways that differ from the standard Western versions. Continue Reading »
Women’s-Only Swimming Hours: Accommodation Is Not Discrimination
by Miriam Rosenbaum and Sajda OuachtoukiInstitutions offering separate women-only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences. They embrace pluralism rather than impose secularism. Continue Reading »
An Inquisition Is Not a Witch-Hunt
by David P. GoldmanMembers of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »
Justice Scalia and Religious Conservatives
by Mark MovsesianReligious conservatives never thought they would need accommodations. The culture was theirs. Continue Reading »
The Third Temptation
by Richard J. MouwIn the mid-1970s, the famous Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder visited Calvin College to give a lecture explaining the Anabaptist perspective on political authority. His opening comments offended many in his audience (including me). Referring to the Gospel account of the third . . . . Continue Reading »
The Perils of Religious Liberty
by Yuval LevinOn January 24, 1774, the young James Madison, twenty-two years old and two years out of Princeton, wrote an exasperated letter to his college friend William Bradford, who lived in Pennsylvania. In Virginia, Madison wrote, a season of intolerance had dawned. “That diabolical, hell-conceived . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Is Religious Freedom At Risk?
by Ryan T. AndersonIn recent political memory, religious liberty was a value that brought together conservatives, libertarians, and progressives. As recently as 1993, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed by a nearly unanimous Congress and signed by a Democratic president. Today, the same value is . . . . Continue Reading »
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