“What is a church in the mind of a secular American today?” “How does US law imagine religion?” and “Where…
Why not just abolish the religion clauses?
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
Is Masterpiece Cakeshop a church?
Where is the religion in this case and what kind of religion is it?
Religious freedom at Religion Dispatches
As part of a joint project between The Immanent Frame and Religion Dispatches, RD contributing editor Austin Dacey has written a series of…
Corporate veil or wall of separation?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby raises a series of important questions for public debate. If…
Corporation as sect
It is easy to forget that religious freedom wasn’t an only child: she was a part of a family of…
The privilege of spirit: The liberal concern with religious liberty claims
A few blocks from my apartment, a neighbor has displayed a placard proclaiming “Defend Religious Liberty.” These words could encompass…
On the unreasonableness of legal religion
Toward the end of her Burwell v. Hobby Lobby dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg finally gets to the heart of…
The zero effect doctrine
In the wake of last summer’s Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College v. Burwell decisions, many wondered how corporations…
Hobby Lobby and the question for religious freedom
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is arguably the premier scholar of law and religion in the United States. She brings to the…
The Supreme Court’s faith in belief
This summer, the Supreme Court was once again at the center of the American culture wars. The media and many…