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The court after Hobby Lobby: Religious freedom expert Brent Walker
“Many religious liberty accommodations will have absolutely no effect on the rights of third parties. Those are easier cases.”
Gold, by Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker enters the shades and brush strokes of daily life with such reverence that readers want to take notice, live better, and die better.
Secret holes
Every family has more people at the table than you can see. If we set the right number of plates, we would have to build way bigger tables.
A life of broken pieces
“This is not the life I’d want!” It’s a declaration I hear often as a pastor.
It’s something I’ve said about my own life too.
Libertarians in the mainline
Last week while I was away, Tobin Grant linked to something interesting: new research, based on 40 years of General Social Surveys, that echoes Grant's own parsing of Pew's Religious Landscapes Survey.
Mapping Exile and Return, by Alain Epp Weaver
Alain Epp Weaver offers a new conceptual bridge to explain the Israel/Palestine conflict to U.S. readers and to suggest a way forward.
Imperial missionaries?
Like it or not, the world’s religious landscape owes much to the long history of European imperialism. But the story of empire and missions is more complex than we might assume.