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Book Review: Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Liberty 0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
Robert Louis Wilken, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Liberty (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019). Do the modern foundations of religious liberty owe more to early Christianity than to Enlightenment thinking? In his ambitious book, historian Robert Louis Wilken seeks to reveal the role that Christianity has played in the development
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A Matter of Interpretation 0
- September/October 2022
- September 1, 2022
When it comes to free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, has the Court delivered a triumph or a tragedy? Illustrations by Jon Krause Examining recent cases and doctrinal developments interpreting the free exercise clause and the establishment clause of the First Amendment reminds me of two lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macbeth himself states in the
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Why Our Story Matters: Interview with Philip Gorski 0
- July/August 2022
- July 1, 2022
What is the story of our nation? How did it begin, and what is its destiny? What values define what it means to be American? And does it matter how we answer those questions? In their recently released book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Oxford University
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The Palmer Raids 0
- July/August 2022
- July 1, 2022
A tale of immigrants, free speech, and mass hysteria in the Land of the Free. New York City, November 1919 A mathematics class is not typically a setting for subversion. Bespeckled teacher Michael Lavrowsky was busy conducting an algebra lesson for Russian immigrants at Manhattan’s Russian People’s House. Then 50 years old, the studious Lavrowsky
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The Curious Case of a Misunderstood Idea 0
- July/August 2022
- July 1, 2022
The secular state—a hallmark of Western liberal democracy—is under attack from both ends of the political spectrum. What does this mean for religious freedom? A renowned Australian theologian investigates. Religious liberty is paramount for any multicultural democracy. That is because religious liberty interlocks with other liberties relating to freedoms of speech and association. The right
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Perverse Optimism 0
- July/August 2022
- July 1, 2022
At a Capitol Hill meeting some years ago I heard a report that sounded utterly far-fetched. It was during a regular weekly gathering of human rights and religious freedom advocates, each representing a different government agency, nongovernmental organization, or faith group. Toward the end of that day’s agenda someone rose to speak. His concern? Organ
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