Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even…
Jurisdictions of the church
church and state
Church State Corporation—An introduction
Following this introduction, five dialogues will be published in which Sullivan was paired with another scholar to discuss Church State…
Is Europe (still) white?
But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…
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…
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it? Introduction
This series of essays aims to open up, with respect to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the…
Revisited: Sex abuse and the study of religion
In summer 2010, Robert Orsi, Terence McKiernan, and I began a conversation about the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.…
Ekklesia: An introduction
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
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…
Hobbesian Catholicism on the rise in Poland?
The right-wing Law and Justice Party victory in the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections has opened a new chapter in…
Beyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
Last summer I read All Can Be Saved by the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, Stuart Schwartz. It’s a…