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Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, National Archives (US-PD) On October 15, Canopy Forum, hosted by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, held an online book symposium regarding Donald L. Drakeman’s upcoming book, to be published November 2026, titled The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience (Harvard University Press, 2026). The…
U.S. Department of Justice Headquarters by Sebmol (CC-BY-3.0) Disputes over religion and public funding require careful consideration of the rights of religious grantees, the religious freedom of others affected by public programs, and the consequences of proposed remedies. Those considerations came into sharper focus on August 25, 2026, when the Justice Department opened a new…
Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull, Wikimedia Commons (PD-US). This article is part of our series on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Americans approaching the religiosity of the founding must begin by resisting the temptation to read our present cultural and political disputes, so often draped in claims about national identity, onto…
Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, National Archives (US-PD) On October 15, Canopy Forum, hosted by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, will be organizing an online book symposium regarding Donald L. Drakeman’s upcoming book, to be published November 2026, titled The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience (Harvard University Press,…
Dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, from the San Diego Museum of Art (US-PD) The views expressed in this article are the author’s alone and do not necessarily represent the views of his employer, the U.S. Government. A Hindu-American lawyer practicing within the American legal system carries two overlapping sets of obligations. The first are sāmanya-dharma(s),…
Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, National Archives (US-PD) On October 15, Canopy Forum, hosted by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, will be organizing an online book symposium regarding Donald L. Drakeman’s upcoming book, to be published November 2026, titled The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience (Harvard University Press,…
Image by Alessandro Biascioli. Licensed and provided by author from from stock.adobe.com. Modern conflict has evolved. It is faster, louder, more public, and more persistent than in prior eras. A disagreement that once remained between the parties involved can now become a screenshot, a group-chat thread, a social-media post, or even fodder for the court…
A computer at the Science Museum by Robert Brook (CC BY 1.0). Imagine a member of a congregation who wakes on Sunday morning too ill to attend church. She is particularly reluctant to miss the sermon. Fortunately, a local service is being broadcast live on television. She follows it from the opening hymn to the…
Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, National Archives (US-PD) On October 15, Canopy Forum, hosted by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, will be organizing an online book symposium regarding Donald L. Drakeman’s upcoming book, to be published November 2026, titled The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience (Harvard University Press,…
Crowds outside of Independence Hall in Pennsylvania by Ferdinand Richardt (US-PD-Art) The thirteen colonies,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “that simultaneously threw off the yoke of England at the end of the last century had, as I have already said, the same religion, the same language, the same mores, nearly the same laws; they struggled against…