728 x 90



  • Respecting Existential Reality0

    Prince Saud Al Faisal can be an imposing figure. The Saudi foreign minister is a large man with decades of experience dealing with Saudi Arabia’s place in the global universe. Much of that aura disappears, however, when the conversation begins. I was in Riyadh seated across from the prince, illuminating the nooks and crannies of

    READ MORE
  • Religion on Trial0

    It’s not easy being British these days. Only a few years after narrowly avoiding compulsory ID cards, British citizens had a close call waiting to find out if their religious freedom would fall victim to the Fraud Act 2006. The veracity of seven religious beliefs was called into question by Tom Phillips, a disaffected ex-Mormon,

    READ MORE
  • Getting That Old-Time Religion0

    Two weeks on a bus! It could be characterized as a schoolboy’s penance or just too much of a good thing—or as a deeply moving pilgrimage! How so, and enough with the riddles. I’m just back from two weeks on a bus tour in company with two dozen religious liberty leaders. Our “magical mystery tour”

    READ MORE
  • Fuel for Thought0

    It’s a matter of presuppositions, really. For a theist, right makes might, which explains how America became great. But for an atheist it works the other way around: might makes right, and this is logical, natural, and even fitting, since it is nature’s method for ensuring survival of the fittest. Humans are just advanced animals.

    READ MORE
  • A Civil Right Tested – Part 2: Title Vll and Beyond0

    Article Series  A Civil Right Tested – Part 1: Title Vll and Beyond The Supreme Court had an opportunity to revisit religious discrimination in Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook.1 Ronald Philbrook taught classes in a public high school in Ansonia, Connecticut.2 Subsequent to his hiring, he became a member of the Worldwide Church of

    READ MORE
  • The Ideal and the Real0

    Imagine this image: Jewish believers in Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (Hebrew for “Jesus Christ”) living in Israel. Though loyal Jews who love their nation and their Jewishness, they face persecution from religious zealots who, hating the belief in Jesus as the Messiah, try to make their lives miserable, especially when they seek to witness to other Jews

    READ MORE