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Beaten and Chastised 0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
In late-seventeenth-century England, many children of nonconformist parents experienced the horror of religious persecution. In these rarely told stories of faithful suffering, we can trace the fragile roots of a growing social acceptance of a new idea: religious tolerance. Religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition has its origins in the seventeenth century, but emerged only
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Gender and Sexual Minorities on Christian Campuses 0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
How do gender and sexual minority students really fare at Christian colleges and universities? This is a key question in Hunter v. U.S. Department of Education, a legal challenge to the religious exemption to Title IX’s provisions forbidding colleges to discriminate on the basis of sexuality and gender. The Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP), an
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An Artful Dodger 0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
Growing up in the 1980s, like countless elementary school students before me, I played dodgeball whenever going outside was not an option. We chose teams, lined up in the gym, and hurled soft(ish) balls at each other, and whoever did not get hit was crowned the victor. It was just one of the many Darwinian
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Injunction Blocks Ban!0
- July/August 2021
- July 6, 2021
On February 6, 2021, nearly a year into the COVID-19 shutdowns, the Supreme Court issued an injunction blocking the state of California’s ban on indoor church services. The Court did indicate that current restrictions on singing and percentage occupancy can remain in place. Two large California churches, South Bay United Pentecostal Church near San Diego
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