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 ...
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address included a continued push to boost the presence of religion in American ...
They don’t resemble the blasphemy laws of old. Through much of history, the state’s powers were used to punish challengers to the religious orthodoxy of the day. The Enlightenment’s focus on ...
The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation.
The Mott Community College Board of Trustees approved a statement in reaction to complaints about President Shaunda Richardson-Snell attempting to "proselytize" visitors and students.
A statement by 168 signatories criticizing Ramadan-themed school activities prompts constitutional debate and renewed references to the Feb. 28 ...
The Green Mountain State will no longer consider if foster-parent applicants’ sincerely held religious beliefs embrace the ...
Vermont has adopted new guidance eliminating a requirement that prospective foster parents in the state embrace LGBT ideology, bringing an end to several lawsuits and leading to the restoration of ...
In April, a nine-judge bench will hear a review of the 2018 Sabarimala verdict that deemed as unconstitutional the prohibition of entry of women in their “menstruating years” into the temple. But at s ...
The object of this article is not to scrutinize your personal upbringing, family or church; however, if your own questions were routinely shut down and reframed as a “lack of faith,” you might ...
Honouring Vande Mataram is an affirmation of loyalty to a shared homeland, an idea that need not threaten religious faith but ...
As the nation’s political divisiveness limps along in a perpetually severed state, pastors of different beliefs seem to have found a speck of commonality. It’s not in doctrine or religiosity but in ...