By Michael Peabody – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging that its Reston, Virginia retail store denied a Jewish employee’s request for Sabbath accommodation and then fired him in retaliation after he raised internal complaints. The federal suit, filed on September 30, 2025, argues that Apple…
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Why the World Needs Your Faith Right Now
I write this while watching a memorial service streamed from Phoenix. You may be watching it too. There are thousands of people. Silent. Searching. You could feel it. Beneath the grief, there was hunger. A hunger for hope. A hunger for God. That same hunger is everywhere right now. Scroll your feed. Walk your campus….
The Voice That Wouldn’t Be Silent
The Riverbank The desert sun baked the stones white. The Jordan slid by, brown and restless, cutting through the wilderness like a scar. On its banks stood a man who didn’t belong in the city. His clothes were rough, woven from camel hair. His food was wild honey and locusts. His words were fire. “Repent…
A Legal Line Crossed? Federal Court Declines to Dismiss Charges Against Mother in Religious School Transfer Case
On August 19, 2025, Shana Gaviola, a mother of four from Clovis, California, will face trial in federal court for alleged violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2262(a)(2), a statute enacted under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Prosecutors allege that she orchestrated the forcible transport of her 16-year-old child across state lines to a religious…
Court Reinstates Mid Vermont Christian School in Athletics After Expulsion Over Transgender Athlete Forfeit
Second Circuit rules Vermont Principals’ Association showed hostility toward school’s religious beliefs On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and ordered the reinstatement of Mid Vermont Christian School into the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA) after the school was expelled for forfeiting a girls’ basketball…
How the Ninth Circuit Carved Faith from Fear in the Swab Case
September 23, 2025. Portland, Oregon. The courthouse reeked of bureaucracy and Lysol, like a mausoleum for ideas. Three judges sat high above the wreckage of a pandemic America, staring down at the case of Sherry Detwiler who was once a privacy officer at Mid-Columbia Medical Center, now a casualty in the war between conscience and…
Supreme Court of Canada’s 1992 Ruling in Central Okanagan / Renaud — A Foundation for the Duty to Accommodate
How a Kelowna custodian, with the help of his lawyer Karen Scott, reshaped Canadian workplace human rights In 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a unanimous decision in Central Okanagan School District No. 23 v. Renaud, restoring school custodian Larry “Steve” Renaud to his job and establishing a robust framework for the duty to…
Humphrey’s Executor in the Engine Room: The Ghost, the Wrench, and the Mad Ride Ahead
The whole thing blew open on September 22, 2025, when the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump the power to gut the Federal Trade Commission with nothing more than a flick of his wrist. Trump v. Slaughter. The case name alone sounds like a lost pulp novel from a drugstore rack, but it is real, and…
The Rapture Carnival: Today Was Supposed to Be It
By our anonymous Gonzo journalist who has his own issues. The banner looked like it had been painted in blood. “RAPTURE DAY – SEPTEMBER 23, 2025.” It stretched across the front of a sagging striped tent in a gravel lot off the highway, the kind of place where county fairs once promised Ferris wheels and…
Debate Rekindled Over Ohio’s Scriptural Motto: ‘With God, All Things Are Possible’
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s official state motto, “With God, all things are possible,” is once again under scrutiny as a new petition calls for its removal, reviving debates that have followed the phrase since its adoption more than six decades ago. The motto was added to Ohio law in 1959 after 10-year-old Cincinnati schoolboy Jimmy…