The legal fight over holding worship services during the coronavirus pandemic intensified this week when Godspeak Calvary Chapel held indoor worship services Sunday.

BJC now has podcast discussion guides to go with each episode of our series on the dangers of Christian nationalism. Take some time to organize a group conversation about this important, timely topic.

By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has again declined to hear an emergency appeal challenging limits on worship service gatherings from a church in Nevada. The Nevada restrictions do seem to pose a tougher First Amendment argument than the California order.

In a letter to the U.S. Senate, religious organizations expressed opposition to using taxpayer money to fund private schools through the coronavirus relief bill currently being negotiated.

The NO BAN Act is a powerful and necessary repudiation of President Trump’s latest attempt to promote anti-Muslim discrimination.

As school systems and states across the country struggle with reopening plans, the ability of religious schools to claim a religious freedom exemption from restrictions designed to protect public health may lead to a new round of legal disputes every bit as hotly contested as those surrounding worship service restrictions.

While coronavirus infections expand across the country, lawsuits challenging public health restrictions on in-person worship services continue to wind through courts.