This is the lived reality of millions of people in highly controlling religions, cults, and coercive situations worldwide. Individuals in such situations are physically free to leave and yet feel ...

Tracking every Trump administration pronouncement on religion can be a dizzying project. Religion has found its way into multiple executive orders, new commissions and task forces, Truth Social posts, ...

I normally steer clear of the really potentially controversial topics these days. I guess I learned a long time ago that we already have enough sources of dysfunction and discord, and I simply don’t ...

On June 17, the International Religious Freedom Summit was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, 200 Christian IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) were massacred in Nigeria. Terrorist groups like ...

Beginning with the 4th of July celebrations last Friday, Americans commenced a year-long commemoration and celebration in anticipation of our Bisesquicentennial (the 250th anniversary of the ...

On May 7, a devout Muslim was called to give testimony in her ex-boyfriend’s criminal case. He was charged with assaulting her and with domestic violence. What would have been a tragic but routine ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Tensions between the Abrahamic faiths are as old as the faiths themselves. But when it comes to issues of religious freedom, we might expect to see Christians among the first to defend the rights of ...

When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations last week about religious persecution, he posed that freedom of religion is not a partisan talking point; it is a universal human right. While ...