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‘Of Kings and Prophets’ like ‘Game of Thrones’ minus the dragons: Students can weigh the merits and deficits of more Hollywood-and-the-Bible with this critique. “The creators of “Of Kings and Prophets” are aiming less for the religious home-schooled crowd and more for the HBO crowd.”
Title IX Religious Exemption Does Not Bar Retaliation Claim Against Catholic High School: A Maryland federal district court refused to dismiss a former high school librarian’s Title IX retaliation claim against the Catholic high school from which she was fired. Librarian Annette Goodman reported to the school’s administration evidence that another faculty member was having a […]
Federal Agency Sues Companies: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two lawsuits, arguing that sexual orientation discrimination is barred by the sex discrimination ban in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The move is the latest in the EEOC’s aggressive efforts in recent years to seek protections for LGBT workers under existing civil rights […]
Nathan Deal makes a forceful, biblical case against Georgia’s ‘religious liberty’ bill: Students can evaluate the journalism, theology, and politics conveyed by this report on a bill moving through the Georgia state legislature.
From Douglas Laycock who argued the Hosanna-Tabor Case: It is one thing if religious believers change their minds about a moral issue. It is a very different thing if those who cannot change their mind are sued, fined, forced to violate their conscience, and excluded from occupations if they refuse. The increasing public perception that […]
Family Phases: The History of Family Strength in America May Reveal Good News — This article by Allan C. Carlson cites three interpretations of the history of the family in America. Carlson then offers a fourth view: four distinct cycles or periods of a “strengthening” or a “weakening” of American family systems around a single, normative model. […]
Can the Greatest Religious Painter of the 20th Century Make a Comeback? French modernist Georges Rouault completed his expressionist landmark in the 1920s. New York’s Museum of Modern Art, among other top-notch museums, owned one of its 450 initial copies and repeatedly celebrated an artist it called “the greatest religious painter of the 20th century.” Yet the Parisian’s reputation has faded […]
Christian but Not Religious: “’Spiritual but Not Religious’ is a phrase many young Evangelicals now use to describe themselves, in order to highlight their personal relationship with Jesus. As someone who studies law and religion in America, I’m embarrassed to say that this was new to me.” The writer, Mark Movsesian, co-directs the Tradition Project at the St. […]
Former Employee’s Fraud Claim Against Diocese Dismissed: A Missouri state court dismissed a fraud claim against the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City brought by the former director for social ministries of a local parish who was dismissed after a newspaper article disclosed that she was in a same-sex marriage. Inquiry “into the knowing falsity of the […]
SCOTUSblog resource page on Zubik v. Burwell: The several cases are now consolidated and the amicus deadline has passed on whether the HHS contraceptive-coverage mandate and its “accommodation” violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by forcing religious nonprofits to act in violation of their sincerely held religious beliefs.
