Chasing Shadows on Ararat: Why Faith Doesn’t Need a Wooden Boat
Noah’s Ark is in the news again but it’s too early to anchor your faith in an archaeological…
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Netherlands Executes 2-Year-Old Child
We have arrived at the stage where the state looks upon an acknowledged, living human being, notes their weakness, and decides that death is an acceptable medical prescription.
The Outer Limits of Religious Accommodation: Nasal Swab Test Refusing Hospital Worker Asks Supreme Court to Decide
Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center
Ninth Circuit Vacates Protection for Religious Employers in Hiring Dispute to Hear Case En Banc
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered an en banc rehearing, vacating a panel decision that protected…
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“Faithful Unto Death”: The Theology of Vaccine Refusal – Was It Faith, Fear, or Legal Strategy?
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The Court Beyond the State: Yom Kippur and the Limits of Law
Faith begins where the law ends.
Faith, Fact, and Pretext: Further Examination of the Fetal Cell Argument Against COVID-19 Vaccines
A follow-up on yesterday’s article.
The Vaccine Paradox: Why the Fetal Cell Argument is Inaccurate and Needs to Be Retired
How decades of medical history exposed the bad-faith rhetoric behind one of the biggest arguments in the vaccine culture war.
Inconsistent Liberty: How the Ninth Circuit Both Wields and Wrecks Employment Division v. Smith within 72 Hours
Federal appellate jurisprudence often demands a strong stomach, yet rarely has a single court exhibited such breathtaking intellectual acrobatics in seventy-two hours. The bone…
Who Speaks for the Children?
Photo: iStockPhoto.com Nearly everyone in the Lindsay Clancy case has an advocate. Clancy has defense lawyers arguing that postpartum psychosis left her without criminal…
9th Circuit Upholds $7.8 Million BART Verdict as Vaccine Battles Redefine “Religious Liberty”
A federal appeals court backed fired transit workers, but the legal fight highlights how vaccine disputes have drifted far from the original meaning of religious…