After a nearly three-year hiatus from adjudicating a religious liberty case, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on three such cases this spring. Two of the three cases, scheduled to be heard later in April, respectively deal with whether…
If there were a proposal to erect a statue of St. Michael the Archangel on a municipal building, it would be understandable if some objected. However, it would not be understandable to object on the grounds that a depiction of…
Moms for America, founded in 2004, has a threefold mission to “Empower Moms, Promote Liberty, and Raise Patriots.” This month, that mission has landed them on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map.” The SPLC labeled Moms for America as…
Several Catholic organizations, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last week after the commission included abortion in its implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). …
The problem when standing on the mountaintop is that you also may be standing at the precipice. That appears to be the situation facing Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. His word is law, but that leaves him with…
I’ve just returned from a conference on religious persecution. Held in the Mediterranean, the event covered the status of religious liberty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In general, the status of religious minorities in that region ranges…
In his philosophical dialogue Kuzari, the poet Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi portrayed an imagined series of talks between a Khazar king and religious representatives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with a philosopher who did not identify with any…
This week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast adds S.A. McCarthy, a contributor to The American Spectator and the Washington Stand, to talk about an event irritating both co-hosts, Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie: Rep. Max Miller’s attack on Christian pro-life…
For so many decades, extending more than half a century, the United States Supreme Court inspired and led America’s moral decline, legalizing abortion on demand, subverting traditional marriage, and allowing “Affirmative Action” racial quotas to replace merit as the standard…
