“The state must be lay. Confessional states end badly. That goes against history.” So said Pope Francis in a 2016…
J. C. Murray, the Vatican, and the lay state challenge
First Amendment
Teaching religion: Refusing the Schempp myth of origins
I was recently asked to speak about the current state of US religious freedom law. I guess it somehow seemed…
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…
Everson’s Children
Everson v. Board of Education is considered a landmark of First Amendment jurisprudence. That 1947 case marks the first time…
Secularism, belief, and truth
I want to argue that one of the deep reasons for the commonality between religion and the secular is not…
Separating public space
Concluding a class trip to the Supreme Court, Maureen Rigo and her class from Wickenburg Christian Academy, Wickenburg, AZ, stopped…
Ruling against discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled against the Christian Legal Society at the University of California's Hastings College of Law, which claimed that the…
We are all religious now
“Favoritism for religion,” says Justice Souter, “‘sends the . . . message to . . . nonadherents’ that they are…