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Canopy Forum recently held an online book symposium regarding Donald L. Drakeman’s upcoming book: The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience. Read more about the event here.
Read essays here from our latest series on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Other series feature current topics like the Ten Commandments in schools, Immigration, IVF, and Christian Nationalism.
Hindu marriage ceremony from a Rajput wedding by Jaisingh Rathore, Wedpro Photography (CC BY 3.0). Various religious traditions prescribe how two people, united through religious marriage, should end their sacramental union if they wish to do so. For the most part, Hinduism is not one among these traditions, for the concept of divorce itself is…
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…
Image Provided by Author, by Silver Bug via Adobe Stock Introduction: The Legal Puzzle, Not A Theology Primer Debates over Iran’s nuclear program have largely centered on enrichment, stockpiling, safeguards, inspections, sanctions, and treaty obligations. Alongside these technical and legal questions lies another form of claimed constraint: a religious prohibition on nuclear weapons attributed to…
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…
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,…