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A Step Too Far?0
- January/February 2023
- January 1, 2023
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin laid the foundation for a new era in the flow of state funds to religious schools in the United States. Was this decision a much-needed corrective to school-choice programs? An end to unjustified discrimination against religiously affiliated schools? Or was it the work of a conservative
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Where Angels Fear to Tread 0
- January/February 2023
- January 1, 2023
A new television program dares to cross religious and political minefields—and manages to produce a kinder, more nuanced approach to difficult conversations. What happens when you bring two polarizing topics together in one half-hour television program? You get a fast-moving, thought-provoking, and sometimes confronting discussion of current events called Faith & Politics. The host of
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Christian Intolerance and the Sword of Persecution 0
- January/February 2023
- January 1, 2023
Rethinking our assumptions about Constantine, Theodosius, and the origins of the Christian persecutory impulse. Religious intolerance takes many different forms, and through the centuries many faiths have persecuted. Christians first began to persecute in the late Roman Empire; however, this persecutory mentality was not something forced on the church by emperors, eager to use its
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Vive la liberté? An Uncertain Future for Religious Liberty in France 0
- January/February 2023
- January 1, 2023
Once a centerpiece of the French liberal tradition, laïcité takes an intolerant turn. French laïcité can be translated into English as “state secularism.” In line with this translation, laïcité is often seen as an official form of state hostility toward organized religion, banning displays of religiosity from public spaces. However, neither this translation nor this
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