“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?
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President Trump visits St. John’s Church
The important story here is not about the president’s religion. Indeed, talk of the church is in many ways a…
Old stones, new stories?
Is this all there is—the reiteration of symbol across decades and eras, each instance narrating a remoter and increasingly poorly…
Churches and public schools
On April 3rd, 2014, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld (by overturning the judgment of…
Religious freedom and the Constitution
Dennis J. Goldford was recently interviewed by Religion Dispatches Magazine about his new book The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics,…
Don’t tread on me
Paul Kahn, in his rereading of Carl Schmitt by way of the American context, seeks to “depersonalize the sovereign.” As…
Debating religious freedom in Dissent
The latest issue of Dissent features an argument (sub. req.) by Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske against the prevailing understanding…