TLB Note:As you have probably already figured out … Today is Religious Freedom Day. This is a topic this is gaining significance by the day and continues to accelerate. Religious freedom in America today is nothing like our founders sought to make it … and no one can explain this better ...
Focuses on the questions that the United States Supreme Court will decide and the course of religious freedom in this country. Arguments in the Supreme Court case City of Boerne versus Flores; Prohibitions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA); Information on the Supreme Court case ...
Mennonites thriving in Paraguay, architecturally stunning church buildings in China, and persistent faith amid Haiti’s pervasive gang violence. Christianity Today’s 10 Most Read Asia Stories of 2024 CT Editors Tightening restrictions on Indian Christians, the testimony of a president’s daughter, and...
s Religious Minorities (Plainfield, IN 8/9/14) Today, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) denounces the terrorist group known as Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) for its attacks on Iraq’s religious minorities and the destruction of their places of worship. Earlier in the ...
Today, as we observe Religious Freedom Day, we note the recent successes and accomplishments of the U.S. State Department in promoting religious liberty, said Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein: “Clearly as you lo...
Retrieving "Asian Spirituality" in North American Contexts: An Interfaith Proposal Zen meditation, t'ai chi, and yoga have become popular practices in North America today. People who practice such disciplines come from many religious, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds. Some of them immerse th...
An institution’s self-identification as “religious” is typically not questioned. But given the wide range of protections, immunities, and freedom from government regulations that religious entities are afforded, it becomes increasingly important to carefully define “religion” in an effort to avoid...
While America has suffered a significant decline in righteousness, a recent study by the Becket religious liberty law firm finds increased support for religious freedom.
of the public square or present an alternative moral vision to equality as sameness — is unacceptable. As such, prominent progressive writers or publications often write about religious-liberty issues in those latter institutional contexts by putting the phrase in scare quotes. Others, ...
in America, media stories smeared gas-powered stove / oven units, arguing they were hazardous to one’s health. Could it be they were actually hazardous to the health of the strategic interests of the United States, in connection with the access-to-natural-gas-related mess in Syria of recen...