GA Student Questions Counseling Degree Requirement

A Georgia college student is suing Augusta State University for requiring her to undergo additional diversity training as a part of her counseling degree. According to the lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...

Fear and the Election Season

This election season seems to be bringing out even more religion-based fearmongering than usual. In Colorado, former Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has decided to launch a high-profile third-party bid for Governor under the Constitution Party, which as...

The Religion – Foreign Policy Relationship

Suzii Paynter writes for Associated Baptist Press about the evolving dance between religion and foreign policy. Religion has gone from being virtually ignored in foreign policy to being acknowledged. This is clearly stage one of a relationship — and is...

Washington Suspends Pharmacy Rule

A rule in Washington State that would have required pharmacists to dispense medications regardless of religious objection has been halted while a change in policy is being considered. The motion to stay the trial was agreed upon to allow the state’s...

Is Religion “Just Another Discourse”?

In an online followup to his analysis of the Supreme Court's recent decision in CLS v. Martinez for the NYTimes, Stanley Fish responds to his critics with an explanation of why religious freedom cases these days have so little to do with the First Amendment's...