by 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 [...]
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by I spent about eight hours this past weekend reviewing applicants for a college scholarship program. The objective of this very worthwhile program – I don’t want to reveal further details for the usual reasons – is to identify talented, disadvantaged high school students who would benefit enormously from attending the kind of colleges that are [...]
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by Following up on Rick’s post, if you’re in New York next week, the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University will host a panel discussion on October 21, “Christians in the Middle East – Contemporary Human Rights Concerns.” Panelists will discuss problems Middle Eastern Christians face and the potential for addressing them through [...]
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by John Allen reports, in the National Catholic Reporter, that religious freedom has emerged as “the signature issue” for the Synod of Bishops of the Middle East: It’s only day one of the Oct. 10-24 Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, but already its signature issue has come into focus: Religious freedom, seen as the cornerstone [...]
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by Little did you know that LawReligionEthics.com has had a correspondent in Juba, Sudan for the last few days. Sudan has experienced violent religious conflict over the last three decades, leading to the deaths of three million people. I was brought here by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom to speak to a group [...]
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by My OU colleague, Allen Hertzke, has an important and insightful article, “The Supreme Court and Religious Liberty: How a 1990 decision has come back to haunt us, and how its damage might be undone,” in the most recent Weekly Standard. Comments on his analysis are welcome. (Cross posted on MOJ)
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by LRE-ers and readers might be interested in this: Submissions and nominations of articles are now being accepted for the first annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility.
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by I just received in the mail Donald Drakeman’s book called “Church, State, and Original Intent” (Cambridge 2010). This is an excellent treatment of its subject. I read it over quickly a couple of months ago when our library got a copy, but I put off buying my own because it was, frankly, pretty expensive. But [...]
Read the full postMuch is being made over the latest survey to demonstrate that Americans know less than we think we do. This time, the subject is religion. The Pew Forum this week released the results of its U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, designed to test Americans’ knowledge of major faith traditions and the role of religion in public [...]
Read the full postHuman Rights Campaign has launched a new website called “NOM Exposed” dedicated to uncovering the “truth, lies, and connections about the so-called National Organization for Marriage.” I’m all in favor of providing the public with information about important political issues, but one look at this website makes clear that the primary motivation is not to provide information, but to paint opponents of same-sex marriage in the most sinister light possible, a sort of public shaming targeting anyone with the gall to stake out a position in support of traditional marriage.
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