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A Fateful Choice 0
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
With 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
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In Praise of the Establishment Clause 0
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
An 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
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The Man in the Tiger Chair 0
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
Nury 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
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Saving International Religious Freedom 0
- May/June 2023
- May 1, 2023
Twenty-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
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Let Them Serve 0
- 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
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Freedom For or Freedom From Religion?0
- March/April 2023
- March 1, 2023
The annual National Prayer Breakfast, attended by every U.S. president since 1953, acts as a national Rorschach test. How we look at it depends on how we answer a simple question: What role, if any, should religion play in the civic life of our country? Does the event harmlessly celebrate the diverse faith traditions of
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