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- February 6, 2015
The time: November 29, 2005. The place: Sweden's Supreme Court. The person: Pastor Ake Green. The issue: charges that Pastor Green committed a hate crime under Swedish law by preaching against homosexuality. The verdict: acquittal. After intense international pressure and the prospect that a conviction would likely be overturned by the European Court for Human
READ MOREWhat could “interest convergence theory” mean for the religious liberty rights of Muslims and Christians? Illustrations by Michael Glenwood In December 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court in Tanzin v. Tanvir ruled unanimously in favor of three Muslim men who say they were placed on the no-fly list by FBI agents in retaliation for their refusal
READ MORE&”Say not the struggle nought availeth, the labour and the wounds are vain, the enemy faints not, nor faileth, and as things have been, things remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; it may be, in yon smoke concealed, your comrades chase e’en now the fliers, and, but for you, possess the field.
READ MOREIn the midst of an astonishing Twitter and Facebook revolution1 that has unleashed a frantic generational demand for democracy and regime change in many countries of the Middle East, and North Africa, the Arab-Muslim world has become a strategic chess match between the United States and the mullah-ruled country of Iran. At stake is President
READ MOREThe Supreme Court has taken on a case entitled Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC.1 It will likely decide the scope of the so-called "ministerial exception" to coverage of employment discrimination laws. The doctrine is one often invoked by religious institutions when they are sued by their clergy under federal civil rights laws.
READ MORERoger Williams' passionate belief in keeping church and state separate is a puzzle to many evangelical minds. With intellectual roots firmly planted in the nourishing soil of the Old and New Testaments, he never strayed into the rocky fields of humanistic or pagan philosophy. Williams' authorities were Moses, Paul, and Jesus—not Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, or
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