Updating a story from earlier this month, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has partially reversed its controversial ban on face coverings including the niqab worn by many Muslim women (including 2 students of the school). The rule went into...
The Houston Chronicle notes that the 15-member Texas Board of Education will hold an initial vote today (Thursday) on proposed changes to the social studies curriculum, including recommendations that Christianity play a far greater role in American History courses and...
The BJC's Brent Walker offers one of the saner takes I've read on the Brit Hume-Tiger Woods-Christianity controversy. From his Washington Post "On Faith" page: [I]f you do exercise your right to peddle your faith in the marketplace of ideas, you...
Via Religion Clause, William Wan reports that the President's Faith Advisory Council held a "lively debate" via phone conference yesterday as they begin the process of drafting a report. The primary issue under debate was whether religious organizations...
What is current church-state law? That's the question a new essential report takes on, sponsored by the Wake Forest University Divinity School's Center for Religion and Public Affairs. Religious liberty experts including the Baptist Joint Committee's Brent...
Stay tuned tomorrow for news surrounding the release of a report on current church-state law. The Washington Post's Under God blog promises the report, to be unveiled Tuesday morning by former Baptist Joint Committee Counsel Melissa Rogers and others, will...
