The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) was at the center of the recent Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision. And at the center of the current congressional attempt to require Hobby Lobby and similar companies to cover all contraceptives in their employee health plans, despite religious objections and despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, is a plan to restrict the scope, the jurisdiction, of RFRA.

So what is RFRA, why was it adopted two decades ago and signed into law to great acclaim by President Bill Clinton, and what does it accomplish?

Here’s a selection of resources:

Kim Colby, “A Perpetual Haven: Why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Matters,” Public Discourse, June 30, 2014.

“Faith Leaders to Congress: Don’t Change Vital Religious Freedom Law (RFRA),” June 30, 2014.

Baptist Joint Committee, “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act: 20 years of protecting our first freedom.”

Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, “Faces of Free Exercise” (video).

Newseum, November 7, 2013, “Restored or Endangered? The State of Free Exercise of Religion in America.” (videos)

Kim Colby, “The State of Religious Liberty in the United States,” June 10, 2014 testimony before the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.