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From a Distance 0
- September/October 2017
- September 1, 2017
This editorial began nearly 40,000 feet above the yellow-hazed landscape of Saudi Arabia on an Emirates flight from Dubai to London. It was one of the last legs on what turned out to be an around-the-world pilgrimage with my family to spend some quality time in my Australian homeland. I have always marveled at the
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Universalizing Support for Religious Liberty 0
- September/October 2017
- September 1, 2017
During the past 30 years, with a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has interpreted the religion clauses of the First Amendment to mean as little as possible. The Court seems content to enforce a minimalist, formalistic understanding of both the free exercise clause and the establishment clause. Constitutional prohibitions will invalidate overt discrimination against religion
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Fifteenth Annual Religious Liberty Dinner—Voices for Freedom 0
- September/October 2017
- September 1, 2017
More than 150 diplomats, religious liberty advocates, and guests gathered in support of religious liberty on June 1 at the fifteenth annual Religious Liberty dinner held in the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C. The annual event is held to celebrate and bring attention to a central human right: the freedom
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Church Is Out 0
- September/October 2017
- September 1, 2017
Redcoats—their mere presence a statement. Cochineal-colored Redcoats, with their snappy military trim, are walking village streets and gathering at the parish church, the brilliance of their uniforms both attractive and intimidating. To many residents the British military give the impression of routine maneuvers. Yet something sinister was drifting in, like the maritime fogs that venture
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The Stranger Within the Gates 0
- September/October 2017
- September 1, 2017
A haunting close-up image of an Arizona mother, 36-year-old Garcia de Royos, awaiting expulsion to Mexico, sadly peering through the metal mesh confinement window of a deportation van, flashed across the news services. Though she had lived in America for decades, de Rayos was being separated from her home and family. She had been seized
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A Place of Refuge 0
- September/October 2017
- September 1, 2017
On March 24, 1984, Felipe and Elena Ixk’oj’t and their five children fled Guatemala to the tiny Weston Priory monastery, not far from where I was living in Vermont. My family had loose ties with the popular “singing” brothers via their well-worn LPs and sporadic visits to the monastery. I was vaguely aware of the
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