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...
The ACLU has filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Berkeley County, South Carolina's policy restricting jail inmates from any reading material apart from a Bible. The jail confirmed Wednesday that it doesn't have a library and that the only reading...
Did you miss Episode One of PBS' "God in America" documentary series? You can watch it online. Take a look and then join the conversation.
A federal judge in North Carolina has ordered the Johnston County school system to allow Ariana Iacono to return to school, after he determined that her lawsuit challenging the ban on body piercing is likely to succeed. Iacono maintains a pierced nose as part of her...
