Editorial – Just War0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

History, as I remember it taught in my high school days, used to be little more than a recitation of wars and battles, with dates attached. I had thought those days long gone, with a more informed recognition of the complexity of human affairs enriching our contemporary view of events. But it seems we are

Security And Religious Freedom0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

The linkage of security and religious freedom is really not that new. In the United States the connection was first made in the 1663 Rhode Island Colonial Charter from England. "They have ffreely declared, that it is much on their hearts . . . to hold forth a livlie experiment, that a most flourishing civill

The Constitution in Wartime0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

The Supreme Court and title vii0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

In 1995 Don Reed was fired as an air traffic controller when his religious belief about the Saturday Sabbath came into conflict with the dictates of his employer. For several years Reed had been accommodated in his belief that the Sabbath should be kept sacred by holding a job that required work only during the

The Glorious 108th0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

By James Standish Illustration by Ralph Butler The beginning of a new Congress is somewhat like the birth of a new baby. Like a child, the new Congress is born with the burden of history sitting fairly across its shoulders, it has much of the DNA of the preceding Congress, and it operates in much

French – Anti-Sect Policy Shifting?0

• January/February 2003
• January 1, 2003

By John Graz France has been the leader of a very restrictive policy against sects and cults for several years. One man has illustrated this better than anyone else: Alain Vivien! He was already the anti-sect leader when I interviewed him in the 1980s for Conscience et Liberte.#1 At that time he was neither in