In the name of “nondiscrimination,” President Joe Biden advanced last week a proposed final regulation that would force religious doctors and hospitals to perform abortions and transgender surgeries. Xavier Becerra, Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary, spent many months working…

Year after year, Americans commemorate our independence on the Fourth of July. We take time off work to gather with family and friends. We roast hot dogs and set off fireworks. These activities, at the least, imply that our commemoration…

To the left, the separation of “church and state” means the separation of God from government, a hostility to the very theism from which the country came. It speaks volumes about the left’s conception of America that it considers a…

Iliff School of Theology is an official theological school and approved seminary of the United Methodist Church that in 2017 received $806,763 from the denomination to train future ordinands. The school was founded in 1892 as part of Colorado Seminary…

A Wisconsin man won a settlement last week from the nation’s largest employer in a religious liberty case. Ed Hedican applied in 2016 for a job as assistant manager at the Hayward, Wisconsin, Walmart store. Hedican is a member of…

In 1990, two drug counselors working for a private clinic in Oregon were fired for smoking peyote, which was against the law at the time. However, Alfred Smith and Galen Black were also members of the Native American Church, a…

The holiday of Passover is a celebration of liberation. Today, when even those who are authoritarian in goal and in practice claim to be liberators, this millennia-old holiday offers testimony about what real liberation is. The Story First of all,…

Päivi Räsänen, the Finnish politician who faced criminal charges for merely quoting and defending the Bible’s condemnation of sexual immorality, scored an important victory for free speech and religious freedom last week. A Helsinki court cleared her of “hate speech”…

Can the government force a religious ministry to hire staff that would subvert the mission of the organization? That is the question percolating in the legal system of Washington state. The U.S. Supreme Court last week denied review to Seattle’s…

Secularists have long sought to undermine the autonomy of religious organizations. Demanding freedom for themselves while denying it to others, secularists increasingly target the employment practices of religious schools, churches, and charities. Unable to rest until everything is secularized, including…