Federal Court Blocks Trump Order on Birthright Citizenship, Extending Protection to 'Future Persons'
Ruling halts executive order targeting children of undocumented and temporary immigrant parents, while raising legal questions about unborn children and potential future claims to human rights
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What Churches Can and Cannot Do: Detailed Legal Boundaries of Political Endorsement in the July 2025 Consent Judgment
The July 7, 2025, joint motion for a consent judgment in National Religious Broadcasters v. Long offers a carefully constructed interpretation of the Johnson Amendment as it applies to certain forms of religious speech. While it provides limited relief for churches seeking to address political topics within worship settings, it also reinforces the boundaries of […]
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With IRS Backing Off, Churches Must Police Their Own Pulpit Politics
As the IRS steps back from regulating church political speech, leaders face growing pressure to adopt neutrality policies to preserve unity.
Read MoreThe Feast of Shadows
This story isn’t a call to compromise—it’s a call to press together. To stop assuming the worst, to stop feeding division, and to start working together on what matters. They gathered with purpose. Men, women, and children—elders, leaders, and the quiet ones in the back pews—stood together, convinced a great threat had crept into their […]
Read MoreSilencing the Noise, Remembering the Call
A Reflection on General Conference Session 2025
Read MoreOur Rights …
Our rights? They don’t come from men in robes or marble halls. They’re not handed out like candy for good behavior. They come from God, pure and unearned. Life. Liberty. Joy that doesn’t depend on approval. The Founders said it, but grace said it first: you’re born with these. Not because you’re worthy. Because you’re […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Weigh Constitutionality of Idaho’s Ban on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that will determine whether Idaho’s 2020 law prohibiting transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Idaho law, known as the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, bans transgender females from competing […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Will Hear Case on Whether Prior Conviction Bars Future Constitutional Challenge
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Olivier v. City of Brandon, a case that could reshape how and when individuals convicted under local laws can seek prospective relief in federal court. The case centers on Gabriel Olivier, a Christian preacher who was fined in 2021 for violating a Mississippi city […]
Read MoreFounders' First Freedom Sponsors Trans-Atlantic Conference on Religious Liberty in Switzerland
The four-day gathering in blended collegial debate with practical strategy as jurists and scholars compared U.S. and European paths on religious-freedom law.
Read MoreDenaturalization Threat Revives Red Scare Echoes and Legal Showdowns
Justice Department directive broadens citizenship revocation amid narrowed judicial remedies and lack of legal counsel
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