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What is "Religion" anyway?
In 1890 the Supreme Court knew exactly what religion was, which should have been the first warning. Certainty on a question like this is usu…
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: A WEEKLY BRIEFING
The big picture: The intersection of faith and public policy is tightening. Courts and legislatures remain the primary battlegrounds, with a…
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Everybody’s Wrong, and Rome Is Filling Up
Three Protestant bodies spent one week at war over the body. The only church adding members is the one that refused to hold the argument. Th…
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The Shield They Are Dismantling
On the evening of June 5, 2026, in a chapel in Riverside, the president of La Sierra University stood before seven graduates and told them,…
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Pepperdine and Founders’ First Freedom Bring the Religious Freedom Conversation Home to Malibu
The view from Pepperdine’s law school in Malibu runs straight out to the Pacific. For three days in early June the people gathered the…
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An Orthodox Jew Prayed at Home. The Supreme Court Will Decide if He Can Sue the City That Stopped Him.
A dozen men gathered to pray in a private home in University Heights, Ohio. The city responded with a cease-and-desist letter. That sequence…
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The Great Northern Shift: How Canada’s Bill C-9 Reconfigures the Landscape of Hate Speech
As an American, my baseline for “hate speech” is comfortably anchored in the First Amendment. In the United States, we operate u…
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Borrowed Light: The Faith Beneath the American Welcome
The plane lands and the visitor steps into a country she was warned about. She knows the America that shouts. She braces for it. Then a stra…
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Do Giants Pitchers Have a Legal Right to Refuse the Pride Cap?
The vice president of the United States found a free Tuesday and spent part of it posting about a baseball hat. A sitting governor’s p…
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The Great Northern Shift: How Canada’s Bill C-9 Reconfigures the Landscape of Hate Speech
As an American, my baseline for "hate speech" is comfortably anchored in the First Amendment.
