What’s the good of having a Catholic president if all he does is persecute Catholics? In recent months, the government has come under fire for assorted incursions against President Joe Biden’s fellow congregants. In February, a leaked document revealed that…
The “ministerial exception” is under attack again. And this time on two fronts. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th District ruled in June 2022 that a religion teacher at a Colorado Christian high school — a “chaplain”…
In 1950, Eileen Barton’s rendition of “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake” hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Until 2012, that song might well have been Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ favorite. But that year, his…
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been hauled into court plenty of times, having experienced its fair share of administrative and election law cases. But now, America’s mail carrier faces fundamental questions over religious tolerance at the post office. USA…
Jack Phillips hit the news again last week. This time, conservatives’ favorite baker got slammed by a Colorado state appeals court for refusing, for religious reasons, to bake a transition cake for a man celebrating his alleged transition to a…
As readers of this space know, former President Donald J. Trump is suing CNN for defamation. Trump claims in his suit that CNN defamed him by repeatedly likening him to Hitler and, in particular, by claiming that his complaints about…
The Bible, Plato, and Aristotle all agree that a proper life is ordered around the principles of greatest importance and of greatest depth. The art of cooking, writes Plato, will teach how to make dishes people would like to eat….
The bar for getting sacked from employment for personal opinions dipped a bit lower in December when a volunteer chaplain in the Austin, Texas, Fire Department was fired for expressing the viewpoint — on his own blog, on his own…
It is a modern conceit that if we do not identify the unprovable first principles in our life, we have no religion. Religion, says this conceit, is something that others have. We have truth. All of us seek the deepest…
