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  • Book Review: Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Liberty0

    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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  • Mistakes Were Made0

    Why is there still a gaping hole in antidiscrimination protections for religious employees? In 1964 the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, sweeping civil rights legislation still considered to be one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history. While lawmakers’ primary motivator was the nation’s fight against racial inequality, the Civil

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  • Perverse Optimism0

    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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  • Patriotism Health Check0

    Illustration by Robert Hunt Love of country or harmful nationalism? National pride or idolatry?  Amid all the political acrimony of recent years, no concept has been the target of more debate and fury than “Christian nationalism.”  A steady stream of books and articles have blamed Christian nationalists for all manner of ills in America, ills

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  • A Duty to Kill?0

    Illustration by Michael Glenwood A California law gives a new spin to the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm.” The test results come back, and they’re not good. Your doctor explains that the cancer has advanced and that the chemo and radiation can do nothing, at this point, to help you. You probably have less

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  • Why Our Story Matters: Interview with Philip Gorski0

    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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