From Iowa pastor Cary Gordon, recounting his daily prayer these days: Dear God…please allow the IRS to attack my church, so I can take them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Gordon has been referred to the IRS for using official resources of the church to...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the Texas Pledge of Allegiance does not violate the Establishment Clause. The State AG's office issues this news release: In today’s ruling, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s decision, ruling that...
Last night's episode of PBS' God in America (part 2 of 3) covered segments on Lincoln and the Civil War, the period of conflict among Jewish Americans over the reform movement, and the Scopes Trial. For sheer emotion, it can't get any more intense than the...
The Supreme Court ordered yesterday that the Solicitor General may participate in the upcoming hearing in Arizona Christian School Organization v. Winn, involving a challenge to Arizona's tuition tax credit program due to its heavy funding of religious schools....
Running through the "God in America" episode from last night was the sense that an overarching narrative drove the American experiment in religious liberty from the beginning, one that identifies always with the captive, with the oppressed, with...
