Sam Brownback has a habit of defying expectations. His childhood on his parents’ farm in the tiny community of Parker, Kansas—population 277— offered few hints he would someday represent his state in the U.S. Congress, first in the House of Representatives and later in the Senate, before coming home to serve as the state’s forty-sixth
READ MOREIn 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
READ MOREGrowing 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
READ MOREOn 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
READ MOREA student accused of “disorderly conduct” for sharing faith on campus can sue college police, rules 8-1 Supreme Court. In a victory for the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that a college student cited by campus police for “disorderly conduct” for speaking about his Christian faith and distributing religious literature on campus
READ MOREIllustration by Jon Krause It was not too long ago that Americans were wholeheartedly defined by a dedication to concepts of freedom of speech and the equal availability of knowledge—and many still recoil at the idea that somebody else should tell them what to think and might control what they can say to each other.
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