This past Thursday, February 16th, Andy Newman reported for the New York Times that Judge Preska of the Federal District Court…
Temporary restraining order on city’s ban
church and state
Secularism, lexical ordering, and resistance to dialogue
Akeel Bilgrami’s paper is very rich; I cannot speak to all its arguments. I focus on his principal concern: his…
Is religion special?
In Religion Dispatches, Katherine Stewart asks what the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C. decision can tell us…
Religion in public schools
In Reuters, journalist Katherine Stewart gives her thoughts regarding American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) recently filed lawsuit against New Heights…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
“The Church”
The last sentence of the Court’s opinion in Hosanna-Tabor announces the dogma that binds the majority opinion. Affirming for the…
The context of religious pluralism
Akeel Bilgrami's article, “Secularism: Its Content and Context,” is an important and welcome contribution on a topic that has acquired…
Ministerial exception upheld
Earlier today, the Supreme Court released its decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., a case that brought into question the validity…
Secularism and Alevism
Writing in The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton raises issues central to secularism as they pertain to Turkey's Alevi, a religious…
Catholic bishops take aim at White House
On Monday, November 14th, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) met in Baltimore to begin day 1 of its national meeting…