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April 2016

April 11, 2016

Finding out how the IRS investigates churches

Two years ago, the atheist group the Freedom from Religion Foundation sued the IRS in...

April 05, 2016

Big business vs. religious liberty

Indiana, Arkansas, and now Georgia have passed modest religious liberty bills that would, among other...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Exemptions for corporations, but not religious groups

The federal government insists that the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious groups...

March 16, 2016

Hostility to religion

In 2012, the First Liberty Institute documented over 600 overt cases in America of "legal, social,...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Did a Massachusetts court ban Christian schools?

A court in Massachusetts ruled that a Catholic school is guilty of discrimination against an...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Religious hospitals may refuse to perform procedures against their beliefs

In what may be an important precedent, a California court ruled against a woman who...

January 12, 2016

How Clemson’s coach defied the anti-religion forces

What a game, the national college football championship! In an exciting back-and-forth game, Alabama beat...

December 2015

December 10, 2015

How barring all Muslims is like gun control

Donald Trump has called for banning all Muslims from entering the United States, not only...

December 03, 2015

Christian teaching on marriage as discrimination?

The Catholic church of Australia published a booklet about marriage, explaining why the institution is...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

Kim Davis meets the Pope

Pope Francis met when he was here with Kim Davis, the county clerk who went...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

Kim Davis solution?

Kim Davis has returned to work as a county clerk after serving time in jail...

September 04, 2015

Clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to gays is jailed

Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

ACLU gets Catholic hospital to sterlize a woman

The ACLU threatened to sue a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform a sterilization procedure...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Boy Scouts will no longer ban gay leaders

The Boy Scouts of America will now allow gay leaders, a decision made by its...

July 09, 2015

The “free exercise” of religion

Justice Kennedy, in his opinion establishing gay marriage, did affirm the right of religious people...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Newspaper won’t allow opinions against gay marriage

Where we are already, after the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling: A Harrisburg, PA, newspaper...

June 04, 2015

Soft persecution

Catholic journalist Russell Shaw analyzes the persecution of Christianity that is breaking out in our...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

Corporate America’s alliance with cultural left

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal says that corporate America is foolish to ally with leftists in...

May 01, 2015

Religious organizations that oppose gay marriage may lose tax exemption?

An exchange between a Supreme Court Justice and the Solicitor General: Justice Alito: In the...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Hillary says “religious beliefs. . .have to be changed”

Hillary Clinton says that "religious beliefs. . .have to be changed" when they interfere with...

April 29, 2015

What happened to the wedding cake bakers

You know the Christian bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay...

April 17, 2015

Our established religion

Yuval Levin says that the religious liberty issues raised by the response to the Indiana...

April 10, 2015

What Is Religious Freedom, anyway?

Think-tanker Joseph Backholm cites some of the absurdities and posturing in the controversy over the...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

The Crusades, the Inquisition, and Protestants

President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast that Christianity, like Islam today, has been used...

February 12, 2015

If religious liberty is THE political issue for Christians. . .

My post on Russell Moore's contention that religious liberty needs to be THE political issue...

February 09, 2015

THE political issue for Christians in 2016

In the early days of the Republic, Baptists supported Thomas Jefferson, even though he was...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

A narrowed religious liberty vs. erotic liberty

Religious liberty, Al Mohler observes, is being restricted to private, unexpressed inner feelings and to...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

“Two Kingdoms” from another Lutheran at Patheos

Another Lutheran joins me here at Patheos, Rebecca Florence Miller. She has made a...

November 04, 2014

Pastors defying the IRS by politicking from the pulpit

More and more pastors are endorsing particular candidates from the pulpit, purposefully defying the IRS...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

Must wedding chapel ministers perform gay weddings?

A wedding chapel is not a church, though ordained ministers often preside at the marriages. ...