by Brian Tamanaha writes at Balkanization on New York Law School Dean Richard Matasar’s recent comments about legal education reform. I’ve raised this issue here before: how might we as law professors informed by religious values contribute to the discussion over legal education reform? An aspect of this problem that particularly disturbs me is that so much [...]
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Seton Hall Law School’s second “Faith, Law and Culture” lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Library. The speaker is Dr. Miroslav Volf, Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Directory of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture (http://www.yale.edu/faith/). Dr. Volf is an internationally recognized thinker [...]
Read the full postSomewhere in America right now, there is a little girl locked in a dog cage. A man will bind her with duct tape. The man will sexually abuse her while another takes pictures and videos. The men will distribute these materials over a vast network of child pornography file sharing servers. Tens of thousands of [...]
Read the full postThe first talk in our “Faith, Law and Culture Speaker Series” at Seton Hall Law School will be held today, September 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Library. The speaker series features theologians whose work focuses on the connections between faith, reason, law, reconciliation, and justice. Today’s speaker is Dr. Stephen Long of Marquette [...]
Read the full postOn the way in to work this morning, I heard an interview on BBC Newshour that included Jordan Sekulow, Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the American Center for Law and Justice. The ACLJ has been a leading voice of the religious right concerning the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” The presenter asked Sekulow whether the plans for [...]
Read the full postThis brief snip of a video interview with Biblical scholar and theologian N.T. Wright is geared towards evangelical Christians, but I thought it was worth sharing here. Wright is not addressing American Catholics, or other American religious people, in this clip. But it’s interesting (and frustrating) to me that evangelicals in the U.S. tend toward [...]
Read the full postThe most troubling aspect of Judge Walker’s opinion may be paragraph 77 of his factual findings: “Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful . . . harm gays and lesbians.” Paragraph 77 lists 18 findings in support of this proposition, including 77(i) – (p), which identify statements by Catholic and Orthodox Church bodies, as well as by [...]
Read the full postA wide range of Christian churches in Kenya have issued a joint statement opposing Kenya’s proposed new Constitution, which is being voted on in a referendum on August 5. They argue that the new Constitution would expand abortion rights, and they oppose provisions that would allow Muslims to use khadi courts “for matters such as law relating [...]
Read the full postNovelist Anne Rice, who had famously converted to Catholicism, has issued the following statement: “I refuse to be anti-gay … to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control … to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism … to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I [...]
Read the full postThe Sunday service on July 4 at my church was excellent. One of our younger pastors preached on the theme of “hope.” He managed to tie together some thoughts about hope rooted in our national history in the U.S. (there was a stirring reading from the Gettysburg Address) with his recent experiences on a missions [...]
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