HHS Secretary

Avoid contraceptives mandate via church plans or health sharing ministries?

The very large number of lawsuits launched by religious nonprofits and by companies of conviction continue to work their way slowly through the courts. Currently…

Read Article →
Worth reading

Worth reading

• Tim Sherratt, “When Religious Liberty and Other Civil Rights Collide,” Capital Commentary, March 7, 2014: “Balancing religious liberty with other civil rights and liberties…

Read Article →
Stone Cross

Don’t undermine civil society to cure fiscal crisis

Efforts to resolve American’s fiscal crisis–the large gap between government income and expenditures, annually and as it has accumulated into our massive national debt–could lead…

Read Article →
President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast

President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast

Many have remarked on it: President Obama’s strong statements at this year’s National Breakfast in support of religious freedom around the world seemed at odds…

Read Article →
The White House

The NLRB, unions, and religious higher education

In early February, the National Labor Relations Board requested comments on whether and how unions can seek to organize adjunct and other faculty at religious…

Read Article →
Kuyper Lecture Image

Time for full school choice

The American Center for School Choice and the Commission on Faith-based Schools this week published a thoughtful and thought-provoking report, Religious Schools in America: A…

Read Article →
Protecting Religious Freedom

The ACLU’s crabbed view of religious freedom

In its fundraising appeal for 2014, “Moving Freedom Forward: What You and the ACLU Can Do in 2014,” the ACLU, while professing its devotion to…

Read Article →
More states to ban "gay conversion" therapy?

More states to ban “gay conversion” therapy?

The idea popped up first in California, where it was turned into a law, and then in New Jersey, where it also became law. Now…

Read Article →
Protecting Religious Freedom

Worth reading

* John Carr, “Beyond Red and Blue,” America, Feb. 10, 2014: In the renewed interest in fighting poverty, “There are unreal, unhelpful divisions between those…

Read Article →
Supreme Court Image

Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court in November agreed to hear the cases of two Christian businesses that object to being required by the HHS contraceptives mandate…

Read Article →