The newest issue of the Baptist Joint Committee’s newsletter, Report From the Capital, is now online, and it’s full of great stuff this month, including: Brent Walker on retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, highlights from Martin Marty’s...
From the Dalai Lama, writing in today's NYTimes: Finding common ground among faiths can help us bridge needless divides at a time when unified action is more crucial than ever. As a species, we must embrace the oneness of humanity as we face global issues like...
An Indiana high school is trying an interesting strategy to allow students to offer prayer during graduation ceremonies without – they hope – violating the separation of church and state. A new policy at Greenwood High School promises student speakers the...
Professor Eugene Volokh predicts a Supreme Court victory for Arizona's Tuition Tax Credit Program (the petition for hearing was granted just today), and sees it as likely building on the court's ruling (in Zelman) that school vouchers are constitutional. [T]he...
The Supreme Court today has agreed to take up the case challenging the Arizona Tuition Tax Credit. The 9th Circuit previously declared the program to be an unconstitutional advancement of religion. The program offers a new twist on the old voucher schemes: a $500 tax...
Texas Education Board member Lawrence Allen on the Social Studies curriculum revision process. Thanks to TFN: Sometimes I think I must be the dumb one at the table. Other folks here seem to think they know everything….I don’t think we should sit here and...
