first amendment

The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all.

Eager to note that a witch story involved a Glenda in Salem, many seem to have missed what’s actually disturbing about it.

A new essay in an influential journal illuminates little-known intersections between Catholic thought and US social history. But then it goes on to prescribe an odd fix for US labor woes: razing the wall between church and state.

In the concluding volume of his trilogy on religion and secularism, the author argues that there is no chasm between religious belief and non-belief; certainly not in terms of politics and not even in personal terms.

A new book shows how a cohort of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews altered the nation; from the Social Gospel movement through anti-Communism, Civil Rights and even into the rise of the religious right.

Rev. Welton Gaddy criticizes “sick sense of majoritarianism.”

Religious right historian makes explicit that he believes only Christianity is protected by the Constitution.

Civil liberties groups warn law would lead to lawsuit.

Rejecting forty-three years of legal precedent the court voted 5-4 to devote public money to religious institutions. Justice Kennedy wins the 2011 Tortured Judicial Casuistry Award for his remarks.

Who’s undermining the Constitution?