History
VIDEO: For Independence Day – “Letters From War” by Mark Schultz
Regardless of what you think about the war, I think we all hope and pray that the men and women who are serving make it home safe.
Church and State
NEWS / ANALYSIS: Obama to expand Bush’s faith based charities and support their right to hire/fire based on faith (AP)
Jennifer Loven of the Chicago AP bureau reports today that Barack Obama is announcing plans to expand the amount of federal social service f…
Church and State
Take Money, Lose Faith – Seven Catholic Schools turned into public schools in Washington DC (Maryland Daily Record)
Charles C. Haynes points out the trap that religious schools can fall into if they decide to take government money. For those of you who st…
International
IRLA Meeting draws large crowd in Angola
John Graz, Secretary General of the International Religious Liberty Association (http://www.irla.org) reports that 40,000 people attended th…
Civil Rights
Unlikely Allies on Prison Reform – Coming together on a wedge issue (New York Times)
For conservatives and liberals, issues such as crime and punishment are losing their divisiveness as the left recognizes the importance of f…
Video
VIDEO: Michael Newdow in Panel at Boston College on Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance
This is particularly relevant this election year. From http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/newdow/ October 18, 2006 – Boston College…
Free Speech
Historical Profile: John Wycliffe – Morning Star of the Reformation (Excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs)
One of my favorite reformers has to be John Wycliffe, who translated the language of the Latin Vulgate into language that everybody could un…
Current Events
ADVOCACY: There’s More to Faith than James Dobson (FaithfulAmerica.org)
Is Focus on the Family president James Dobson’s opinion worth more than the beliefs of the entire American population? The cable news…
Current Events
This Fourth of July, Celebrate Religious Freedom (The Baptist Standard)
Brent Walker, Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty says that it is time to celebrate our religious freedo…
Church and State
Professor Steven Calabresi on Enforcing Morality (Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy)
In this essay published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Steven Calabresi, the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law…