When the Texas Board of Education meets this week, potential revisions to standards in the social studies curriculum will be presented. Still unclear is the role that will be played by controversial recommendations sent to those writing the drafts that will be...
A new study from Duke Divinity School's Mark Chaves finds that the last decade of political and governmental emphasis on faith-based funding has not altered the landscape of social service providers. ABP's Bob Allen reports: Chaves said that the proportions of...
I will give opponents of Bradley Byrne – in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination – this little bit of credit: at least they understand enough about the impropriety of the tactic to refrain from openly accusing him of wrongly interpreting...
A federal judge in Kansas has dismissed a sweeping lawsuit aimed at the Defense Department over charges of pervasive religious freedom violations. Military Religious Freedom Foundation head Mikey Weinstein says the group will appeal the ruling to the 10th Circuit...
I typically blog news items and then move on, but have to admit I'm a little stuck on the news posted yesterday about Wilson County's (TN) settlement of a dispute over the distribution of Gideon Bibles to fifth-graders. It really bugs me, in a way that I...
First Amendment scholar David Hudson profiles a recent ruling in Virginia that allowed an inmate's lawsuit to proceed thanks to the scrutiny standard of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The law prohibits prisons from...
