Let Them Serve
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
Religious freedom for faith-based adoption agencies is under threat, and the welfare of vulnerable children and families is on the line. Faith-based agencies and people of faith have always played a significant role in caring for vulnerable children in the United States. Christians, for instance, have a biblical directive to care for the vulnerable and
READ MORETwenty-five years ago, landmark legislation birthed a new era for religious freedom diplomacy. Has the International Religious Freedom Act stood the test of time? Where do we go from here?” the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. asked in his final book, published in 1968, the year of his tragic murder. Taking inspiration from his
READ MORENury Turkel was born in China, a member of an oppressed ethnic and religious minority. Today he is a Uyghur American attorney and chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent government agency that monitors religious freedom violations around the world. In this excerpt from his recently published book, No Escape: The
READ MOREAn Interview With Michael McConnell It’s fair to assume there are few Americans who’ve given more thought to the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment religious clauses than Michael W. McConnell. As a lawyer, federal judge, and scholar, McConnell has spent decades on the front lines of our nation’s never-ending legal and cultural battles over the meaning
READ MOREWith religious freedom challenges mounting, America’s Christian colleges and universities face a fork in the road. At stake? Their identity and mission. Illustration by Brian Stauffer Christian higher education stands at an important crossroads in our cultural and political moment. In one direction lies a road historically more traveled, a road worn from centuries of
READ MORE“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”—Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841). Once upon a time the suggestion that employers should seek commonsense ways to accommodate people
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