A Muslim GOP leader, a Catholic judge, and the American tradition of associations
The right to form associations is part of First Amendment. Yet Americans sometimes view membership in them with suspicion—as some did with Shahid Shafi and Brian Buescher.
January 23, 2019
Will mass shooting at Texas church prompt 'serious soul-searching'?
The attack may be the deadliest targeting a congregation in U.S. history.
November 7, 2017
Counterprotesters overwhelm free speech rally in Boston
The people who attended a rally at the Boston Common did not bear Nazi symbols or racist slogans. But the tens of thousands of counterprotesters saw their intention as defending hate speech.
August 23, 2017
Clash over Bear Ears land tests years of progress on Native American spirituality
(The Christian Science Monitor) Davis Filfred wishes President Trump would take a page from General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf’s pl...
May 4, 2017
Trump's refugee plan divides religious leaders
(The Christian Science Monitor) For a week after President Trump’s executive orders suspending visas and immigration to the United Sta...
February 10, 2017
New national monument in Utah and Nevada protects sacred lands
(The Christian Science Monitor) When President Obama established new national monuments in Utah and Nevada, he noted that the area is ...
December 30, 2016
In Supreme Court case, potentially big shift on religious freedom
(The Christian Science Monitor) The Unites States Supreme Court on Wednesday became the theater for a debate over religious freedom th...
March 24, 2016
Civil rights activist clergy see new generation rising for voting rights
(The Christian Science Monitor) Fifty years after the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act, two legends of the civil r...
September 21, 2015
Why #IStandWithAhmed is about more than a Muslim boy in Texas
(The Christian Science Monitor) Less than a day after news broke that a 14-year-old Muslim boy had been arrested for having a homemade...
September 17, 2015
Boston bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev breaks silence to apologize
(The Christian Science Monitor) Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke for the first time in court on the day of his sentencing, at the end of a mont...
June 25, 2015
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