Midnight in Toledo: How the Ohio Conference Apparently Abandoned Two 18-year-old Camp Counselors on Father’s Day
Whistleblowing, a midnight transit drop-off, and why a corporate church hierarchy can't hide from a father who happens…
Supreme Court Limits Individual Liability in RLUIPA Cases
The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals cannot be held liable in their personal capacities for violations of…
Ninth Circuit Deals Setback to Governor Newsom: Preliminary Injunction Granted Against AB 1955 Policies on Gender Identity Disclosure
A federal appeals panel has blocked state officials from enforcing policies that restrict school disclosure of student gender…
Proximate Cause and Proximate Justice: A Legal Assessment of Exodus 21:22-23
The legal architecture of the ancient Near East often serves as a proxy battlefield for modern moral debates.
Juneteenth: Two and a Half Years Late, and Paid in Blood
Picture: General Order 3 – June 19, 1865 On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood in…
Juneteenth: Two and a Half Years Late, and Paid in Blood
Juneteenth marks the day emancipation stopped being a promise. The army that delivered it cost the country hundreds…
Do Giants Pitchers Have a Legal Right to Refuse the Pride Cap?
The Bible verses, the plain caps and the MLB warning, sorted by what Title VII really requires after…
U.S. Brands Nigeria a Religious Freedom Violator as Christian Death Toll Climbs
Before dawn in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, the roosters do not get to finish. The men arrive with rifles…
Canada’s "Combatting Hate Act": Legislative Expansion of Criminal Speech Laws
Bill C-9, the *Combatting Hate Act*, has cleared the Canadian Senate, instituting expansive new criminal penalties for hate-motivated…
Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal in Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Governance Dispute
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court decision that dismissed…
What is "Religion" anyway?
In 1890 the Supreme Court knew exactly what religion was, which should have been the first warning. Certainty…
Conscience Is Not a Coupon
In April, Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill that cut a hole in Connecticut’s own Religious Freedom Restoration…
The Shield They Are Dismantling
On the evening of June 5, 2026, in a chapel in Riverside, the president of La Sierra University…
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…
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: A WEEKLY BRIEFING
The big picture: The intersection of faith and public policy is tightening. Courts and legislatures remain the primary…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…