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When Laws Do Not Name Religion — but Still Impact It

From FOR SA. (Image: Salah Ait Mokhtar/Unsplash) Imagine a retired pastor convicted for preaching John 3:16 near a hospital. Not because any statute named preaching as its target,...

Does The "Aloha Spirit" Violate The Establishment Clause?

The statutory definition of the "aloha spirit" seems very much like any other progressive nondeist religion.

Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court: What Every Faith-Based Organization Should Be Watching in 2026

Blasphemy Laws Are Blasphemy

Russell Moore, Christianity Today Around 60 years ago, a young, recently fired Old Testament professor received a scolding from his mentor, the man who had supervised his disserta...

Editorial: Lawsuits and Letters suggest Workplace is a New Religious Liberty Front

A federal settlement protecting Christian employers and a Southern Baptist appeal to the Justice Department raise a broader question: Will the government’s expanding religious-libe...

Supreme Court to Weigh Religious Exercise and Nondiscrimination in Colorado Case

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Colorado’s universal preschool rules that could reshape how religious accommodations interact with nondiscrimination protections, with po...

What Happens if You Get Divorced and You Can’t Agree on Which Religion Your Child Should Be?

Religion can be one of the harder parenting issues to resolve during a divorce. A couple may have managed religious differences while they were married because one parent was willi...

Adjudicating “History and Tradition”

On August 20, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts held in Fitzmaurice v. Quincy that the town of Quincy would likely violate the Massachusetts Constitution if it inst...

The 48 ABA-Approved Religiously Affiliated Law Schools

ABA, Council-Approved Religiously Affiliated Law Schools: Editor’s Note:  If you would like to receive a weekly email each Sunday with links to faith posts on TaxProf Blog, email m...

Why religion and education will be in the spotlight next term

As the back-to-school spirit sweeps across the nation, education is likely on the minds of the Supreme Court justices (especially those with kids still at home or in college). The...

Two Tennessee Religious Freedom Disputes Put Minority Faiths in Focus

Two separate religious-freedom disputes in Tennessee—one involving religious practice and eligibility to foster and the other involving Ten Commandments displays in public schools—...

Can The State Be The Judge Of Faith? The Global Collapse Of Freedom Of Religion

Religious Liberty Is a Religious Value

My comments at the Grace Agenda pre-func men’s conference. Introduction: One of the downsides of our failure to recognize that secularism functions as a religion is that as a conse...

Beyond Religious Tolerance: Covenantal Pluralism

Dispatch Faith: Religious Tolerance Isn’t Good Enough, by Michael Reneau (Managing Editor, The Dispatch): Texas has become ground zero for the new wars of religious toleration, wit...

Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging Religious Liberty Commission Isn't "Fairly Balanced"

From Interfaith Alliance v. Trump, decided Monday by Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.): [A.] [T]he Federal Advisory Committee Act ("FACA") …… The post Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging Rel...

The many layers of Landor

In recent years, the Supreme Court’s late June grand finale, headline-grabbing, crash-the-SCOTUSblog-live-feed decision-dumps have generally included salient church-state or religi...

Religion is shown in how one acts

No Religious Exemption from Forum Selection Clause in Employment Agreement

"Plaintiff should be treated like any other employee in his position, not that he should be favored based on his identity."

Bringing religion to bear on public policy debates

Mike Pence’s “What Conservatives Believe” and Raphael Warnock’s “The Crooked Places Made Straight” draw on their reading of Scripture, bringing a religious perspective to policy de...

Sharia Divorce Law in American Courts

An interesting demonstration of how foreign law—including Islamic law—is sometimes applied (pursuant to American law) in American courts.

How Trump and Biden Differed In Their Definitions of Religious Freedom

WEx The difference is not about whether religion had a place in public life. It reflects a disagreement over what religious liberty protects.

Who Will Control Religion?

Who Will Control Religion? International religious-freedom organizations are raising concerns about South Korea’s treatment of minority religious groups, bringing renewed attention...

Second Circuit Clarifies Standard for Religious Discrimination Claims