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  • Yesterday and Today0

    Ruminations of a second-generation Holocaust survivor For many years I served as a policy and advocacy official with the American Jewish Committee, and today I remain active in pursuing the issues and promoting the values to which I dedicated my career. I am a Religious Freedom Fellow at the Freedom Forum, a leader on civil

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  • Religious Freedom Delivered0

    The story of a mail carrier, his Sabbath, and a five-decade legal odyssey to strengthen the rights of all people of faith in America’s workplaces. When Gerald Groff returned from the mission field and took a part-time job as a mail carrier near his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2012, he had no reason

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  • Doing Unto Others and the Limits of Democracy0

    In 2015, a few months before he died, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia spoke to law students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the question-­and-answer period a student asked Scalia whether courts have a responsibility to protect minorities that can’t win rights through the political process. Scalia’s response was typically blunt. No, he said.

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  • Christian Nationalism and the Art of Flossing0

    An interview with sociologist and author Andrew Whitehead. For a book written by a social scientist, Andrew Whitehead’s American Idolatry has surprisingly few statistics in the opening pages (American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and the Church [Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2023]). Instead, Whitehead, a nationally known writer and speaker on religion in

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  • Baptizing Politics0

    Christian nationalism in global perspective.Illustrations by Alex Nabaum In 1992 Benjamin Barber suggested that the post–cold war world would be shaped by a contest between “Jihad” and “McWorld.”1 Jihad was the name he picked not just for Islamist movements but for all political movements founded on cultural, religious, or national particularity. “McWorld” was his name

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  • At the Altar of Patriotism0

    The outsized influence of ‘civil religion’ and what it means for Americans today. In 1863, prominent Unitarian pastor Henry W. Bellows preached a rousing war sermon to his New York congregation. He called the sermon “Unconditional Loyalty,” and he meant every word of it. He warned his congregation against the treasonous implications of criticizing the

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  • Thou Shalt Not Lie0

    The myth of the Ten Commandments Asked to name the Ten Command­ments in a 2006 appearance on “The Colbert Report,” Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, co-sponsor of a bill that would have required the Ten Command­ments to be displayed in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, responded: “Ummmm. Don’t murder. Don’t lie. Don’t steal.

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  • Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods0

    Illustration by Michael Glenwood The battle to defend the Ten Commandments in America is real. We may be on the wrong battlefield. Some years ago I took a survey of my congregation. By a response of applause, I asked how much they agreed with the following statements: Our children should learn and live by the

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  • The Power of Conversation0

    Ground zero for religious liberty conflict in America today is the ongoing clash between religious freedom rights and LGBT rights—in the courts, in the media, and in our social media feeds. For a growing number of Americans, “religious freedom” has become merely code for bigotry. From this perspective, those who seek religious exemptions from anti-discrimination

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