The Netflix docu-thriller Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey shows the downfall of Warren Jeffs and the unjustified taking of 450 children inside his religious community.
The Christian satire site's editor on defying Twitter bans, flaying Gen Z's super-thin skin, and being funny while pious.
Kyle Mann, the Christian satire site's editor, also talks Biden vs. Trump, and why he saves his deepest burns for mega-pastors like Joel Osteen.
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However this denominational divorce plays out, theology around same-sex relationships isn’t the only thing driving Methodists apart.
Bedford's New Hope Christian Fellowship Church argues in a lawsuit that the town is applying uniquely restrictive rules to its religious gatherings.
Leviathan was a challenge to the governing independence of the Holy See.
Remembering the world’s first geneticist, and a tax protester to boot
Borough officials in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, told Mission First and Christ Episcopal churches that their charitable work goes beyond what the zoning code allows for downtown churches.
Leading libertarian legal scholar Randy Barnett talks about abortion, gun rights, and worrying trends at the highest court in the land.
Anti-discrimination law was pioneered by the political left. But, in recent years, conservatives have increasingly tried to use it for their own purposes.
A 6–3 majority sees it as noncoercive and not a violation of the Establishment Clause.
“A State violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits,” the Supreme Court held.
The decision is an important victory for both the principle of nondiscrimination and parents and students seeking better educational opportunities.
States may not "exclude some members of the community from an otherwise generally available public benefit because of their religious exercise,” says SCOTUS.
Ideas Beyond Borders is bringing ideas about pluralism, civil liberties, and critical thinking to hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them.
This has nothing to do with the separation of church and state.
The forgotten abortion politics of the pre-Roe era
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The justices unanimously agree that the city was not endorsing the flags, and that therefore it couldn’t exclude religious organizations.
French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.
State-level "gag orders" on teaching certain texts and ideas are terrible and utterly predictable in a one-size-fits-all K-12 educational system.
Compact brings "labor populism" and "political Catholicism" under one roof.
The students say they were forced to attend an evangelical religious service.
The country is one of the most egregious violators of religious liberty on the planet.
Figuring out the limits of big-tent libertarianism is no easy matter, but it's central to the movement's success.
Will this follow-up to the famous wedding cake case finally decide if this is mandated speech violating the First Amendment?
It should not matter whether would-be ayahuasca drinkers sincerely believe in shamanism or simply believe they will derive mental health benefits from the experience.
H.B. 2802 would expand discrimination protections but would carve out religious institutions.
Born in nationalism, the Olympic games are fading into a niche entertainment option.
The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that tests the limits of expression on government property and religious toleration.
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church says that a Brookings, Oregon, law limiting its "benevolent meal service" to two days a week unconstitutionally restricts its religious mission to feed the hungry.
A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education
The justices heard oral arguments this week in Carson v. Makin.
The Inconvenient Minority author and head of Color Us United says it's time for the country to become truly colorblind.
"I have no doubt," Polish President Lech Wałęsa once said, that without John Paul II "the birth of Solidarity would not have been possible."
The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."
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