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Meaning and Peace: The Story of Stanford’s Religious Liberty Clinic 0
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Law students help pioneer a renewed understanding of religious liberty for polarized times. In January 2013, we launched at Stanford Law School our nation’s then-only Religious Liberty Clinic. A law school clinic is an academic program in which students learn the practice and profession of law through faculty-supervised legal representation of clients in the field.
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Case in Point May/June 2025 0
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Will America Abandon Its Leadership on International Religious Freedom? America’s global efforts to protect religious rights and counter authoritarian disinformation could be undermined by recent federal cuts to USAID and the closure of U.S.-funded media outlets, according to the 2025 annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Commission chair Stephen Schneck
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A Sermon on Unity Divides 0
- May/June 2025
- April 30, 2025
Was it a call to greater national harmony? Or partisan meddling? “Elected theologians” weighed in. The American colonies pursued separation from England in the interest of liberty. Our nation’s Constitution creates space for liberty to flourish, and our Bill of Rights places religious liberty at the very top of the 10 amendments. From the time
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The Price of Protection 0
- March/April 2025
- March 1, 2025
“Together we will make America stronger and prouder, safer, freer, greater, and more faithful to our God than ever before.” —President Donald J. Trump, speaking to faith leaders February 6 at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. What are we to make of the first weeks of the new presidential administration? With headlines coming
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The New Catholic Radicals 0
- March/April 2025
- March 1, 2025
Integralism’s challenge to religious freedomIllustration by Robert Hunt The twentieth century saw an explosion of secular political movements and secularization, suppressing and marginalizing religion in many parts of the world. In milder cases these secularizing movements only suppressed the political expression of faith, such as in Turkey and India; in the USSR and Mao’s China,
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The Indispensable Founders 0
- March/April 2025
- March 1, 2025
Those who disparage the principle of separation of church and state face an inconvenient reality: the religious freedom legacy of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. In 1947, at the cusp of a cold war that would pit “one nation under God” against “godless Communism,” the U.S. Supreme Court entered the fray over the relationship between
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