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There’s No Conflict Between the Constitution’s Religion Clauses March 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide between two competing visions of the First Amendment this term in a pair of cases out of Oklahoma. Under one theory, the religion clauses (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,...
Why Saints, Not Superman, Are the Real Heroes March 20, 2025
Throughout history, there have been many and varied proposals as to what constitutes a superman. The common denominator that gives meaning to the word is the human being at his absolute best. This is an intriguing thought and has captured the imagina...
Rebuilding a Pluralistic Syria to Keep ISIS Down and Iran Out March 18, 2025
It is a core national security interest to ensure a stable transition to a democratically elected government reflecting Syria’s pluralistic society. Inclusion of Syria’s religious minorities in drafting the constitution is crucial to the legitimacy o...
America’s (Lack of) Separation Between Church and State, Explained March 17, 2025
The concept of “separation of church and state” isn’t quite as ironclad as you may think.The First Amendment prohibits laws “respecting an establishment of religion,” a provision that many Americans believe should create a firm wall of separation bet...
Fighting Oligarchy or Fighting Christianity? March 17, 2025
At his “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace, who performed an obscene and blasphemous song mocking Christianity. This comes as hundreds of Christian minorities are ma...
Christmas Attacks: Part of a Trend of Violence Against Christians March 06, 2025
Attacks against Christians worldwide saw a troubling rise in 2024, with the Christmas season in particular marred by incidents in Germany, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nigeria, India, and Syria. The 2025 World Watch List (WWL) by Open Doors highlights the incr...
Ron DeSantis Is Letting Religious Chaplains Roam Public Schools April 25, 2024
The Florida governor just signed a law allowing religious ministers to counsel public school students—but said the Satanic Temple can’t participate. That’s blatantly unconstitutional....
Bible is Now an Official Tennessee Book. State Walking Tightrope. April 19, 2024
Eight years after his predecessor vetoed a bill enshrining the Bible as the official state book, Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a measure making a version of the Holy Book one of Tennessee's 10 official tomes....
We Teach the Bible to Public School Students April 17, 2024
We follow these rules to the letter because that’s what the Constitution and human dignity demand. For those reasons, the attacks against us are laughable.We’re told the Bible has no place in school. No problem: We teach it outside of school.We’re to...
Polish Parliament Moves To Overturn Pro-Life Legislation April 16, 2024
On Friday, the new ruling majority in the Polish parliament passed proposals that would scrap Poland’s strict abortion laws. The bills have a long way to go, however—and conservative President Andrej Duda can not only veto the bills, but also refer t...
OK Court Considers Nation’s First Religious Charter School April 03, 2024
The Oklahoma Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the state can directly fund religious education, with some justices voicing skepticism that a proposed Catholic charter school could pass constitutional muster but others suggesting there may be l...
New York Prisoners, Denied a Solar Eclipse Viewing, Sue the State April 03, 2024
In response, six men at an upstate prison filed a federal lawsuit against the department on Friday, arguing that denying them the opportunity to view the eclipse would violate their constitutional right to practice their religion.The men, who are inc...
Christianity is a Religion of the Body. Resurrection Makes that Clear April 02, 2024
Salvation comes from and through the body—not the body in itself, but the body as integral to the human being, as the body reveals the thoughts, feelings, passions, affections, joys, sorrows, directions—all that constitutes the movements of a person ...
Iran: The Christians Celebrating Easter in Secret April 01, 2024
On a table in the living room, Tina - not her real name - has made a display with tealights, pastel-coloured eggs, candles and a little wooden cross. It's her own, intimate way to mark Easter.She and her husband converted to Christianity years ago, s...
'Gender Identity' Law Spells The End Of Religious Liberty In MN March 28, 2024
In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature and governor added a new category of so-called human rights, “gender identity,” to the Minnesota Human Rights Act. They included no corresponding religious exemption, however, demonstrating their intent to deny reli...
Democrats Shouldn't Overplay Their Hand At Abortion March 20, 2024
What the Biden campaign needs to recognize is that abortion is totemic. For some people it represents all that is wrong about the sexual revolution and its progeny, and they are base GOP voters. For others, the libertarian stance on abortion is the o...
Ireland Tries and Fails to Erase Mothers March 18, 2024
The people of Ireland have voted resoundingly not to remove the word “mother” from the Irish Constitution.This week, the results of a double referendum were announced. The first item on the ballot was a proposal to change the constitution's declarati...
Unholy Triad of 2024: Christian Nationalism, Jan. 6 & Trump March 15, 2024
There is no single agreed-upon definition of Christian nationalism. Some erroneously define it as the mere acknowledgment, contained in our Declaration of Independence, that all rights come from God. A more sensible definition that evinces a true thr...
Abortion and the American Colonization of France March 15, 2024
Since the Veil Law of 1975, abortion has been legal in France. Yet for decades, the French could boast that through legislative deliberation, they avoided importing American culture wars and its extremes into their country. The Veil Law legalized abo...
Bribing Future Generations for Marx? March 14, 2024
Can anybody name one-square inch on the planet where Communism has done anyone any good? Anywhere? Not for the ruling elites, but for the people themselves?It doesn’t exist. How, then, do they continue to manage to create new recruits? Well, a story ...
Defeat of Referendums Shows Growing Power of Ireland’s Trad. Catholics March 14, 2024
At a Mass said in Latin on Sunday (March 10), Ireland’s traditional Catholics declared political victory, days after a pair of referendums aimed at secularizing the Irish Constitution were unexpectedly and resoundingly defeated.On Friday, the Irish g...
Catholicism and Slavery: Setting the Record Straight March 12, 2024
It’s easy to forget that the institution of slavery has constituted a social norm in human history. From the grand perspective of time, its supporters and defenders have far outnumbered its critics and condemners. ...This runs against the common narr...
Ireland Reject Proposals to Redefine Family, Undermine Motherhood March 12, 2024
The Irish prime minister, known as the Taoiseach, has conceded that his government was defeated “comprehensively” when voters rejected amendments to the constitution that the country’s bishops warned would have weakened supports for marriage and unde...
Abortion as a French Constitutional Right: A Christian Response March 08, 2024
The scenes from Paris this week were remarkable. In the parliament at Versailles, the new constitutional amendment that enshrines adults’ licence to kill human babies, either by the use of toxins or by dismembering them and crushing their skulls, was...
Vatican on France & Abortion: No ‘Right’ to Take Human Life March 06, 2024
On Monday France became the first country in the world to enshrine the right to abortion in its basic law, a move that has been staunchly opposed by the French bishops and by the Vatican. “The Pontifical Academy for Life reiterates that precisely in ...
