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Gender and Sexual Minorities on Christian Campuses 0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
How do gender and sexual minority students really fare at Christian colleges and universities? This is a key question in Hunter v. U.S. Department of Education, a legal challenge to the religious exemption to Title IX’s provisions forbidding colleges to discriminate on the basis of sexuality and gender. The Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP), an
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Will Nigeria Be the New Iraq?0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, the continent’s largest democracy, and is poised to become the third-largest country in the world by 2050. Based on these facts alone, one would think the country is on a path to prosperity. But in fact Nigeria is teetering on the edge of political and social dysfunction
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Beaten and Chastised 0
- September/October 2021
- September 1, 2021
In late-seventeenth-century England, many children of nonconformist parents experienced the horror of religious persecution. In these rarely told stories of faithful suffering, we can trace the fragile roots of a growing social acceptance of a new idea: religious tolerance. Religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition has its origins in the seventeenth century, but emerged only
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Injunction Blocks Ban!0
- July/August 2021
- July 6, 2021
On February 6, 2021, nearly a year into the COVID-19 shutdowns, the Supreme Court issued an injunction blocking the state of California’s ban on indoor church services. The Court did indicate that current restrictions on singing and percentage occupancy can remain in place. Two large California churches, South Bay United Pentecostal Church near San Diego
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A Small Gap 0
- July/August 2021
- July 1, 2021
A little more than 22 years ago I sat down in a new office, at a new desk, and pondered what to do next. On the desktop were just a few items that tied me to this new reality. There was a cake-top decoration in the style of the Statue of Liberty, left over from
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The Cost of Free Speech 0
- July/August 2021
- July 1, 2021
Illustration by Jon Krause It was not too long ago that Americans were wholeheartedly defined by a dedication to concepts of freedom of speech and the equal availability of knowledge—and many still recoil at the idea that somebody else should tell them what to think and might control what they can say to each other.
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