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Weary (and Wary) of Decisions, Opinions, and Polemics? Religious Wisdom Would Like a Word
Religion that is prescribed by a privileged few to control the lives of the many obfuscates human dignity, limits and cheapens life abundant, substitutes the trivial for the transcendent, and elevates a cruel justice that cannot admit its need for me...
July 1, 2022
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Bad Faith History: The End of Roe v. Wade and The Supreme Court’s Myth about Abortion in the United States
The world that the Court’s opinion imagines is intimately (and frighteningly) consonant with a white, Christian nationalist vision of our nation....
July 1, 2022
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Partisanship in Religion and Politics
Many lament the obliteration of bipartisan politics: too few acknowledge it as a casualty of the idea that America is a "Christian nation"....
May 25, 2022
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The Problem with Calling Amy Coney Barrett Too Catholic
The tendentious historical origins of American Catholic Conservatism...
October 29, 2020
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The Meaning of Religious Exemptions
Governmental recognition of religious liberty is a pressing issue in our current politics. The 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act states that a generally applicable federal statute may not substantially burden “a person’s exercise of religion” un...
May 11, 2017
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Texas' Latest Restrictions on Abortions Challenged in U.S. Supreme Court
Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt...
March 10, 2016
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Contemporary Hostility to the Free Exercise of Religion
Religious liberty is far down the path towards becoming a party-line culture war issue. ...