A prisoner in a California prison who was punished for refusing to shave his beard has a new ally in his claim that his religious freedom rights were violated. The Justice Department filed suit yesterday. AP reports: The lawsuit filed Tuesday also names Gov....
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled in a controversial case pitting parent against parent in a dispute over their child's religious education. Martin Kurowski disagreed with the home-schooling his daughter was receiving from her mother and sought to have her...
Philadelphia councilwoman Jannie Blackwell has proposed hearings on the possibility of implementing prayer in school. Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell said her intention to hold hearings this spring on school prayer should be considered an innocuous boostering of...
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is apparently staking his name and aspirations on the drive to undo 50 years of church-state separation. Specifically, he finds fault with John F. Kennedy's famous press conference in 1960, when he assured voters that his faith...
The continuing-to-unfold events in the Middle East provide an occasion to think about the relationship between religion and politics among the three Abrahamic faiths: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Although religion has not been front and center in the democracy...
