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Canopy Forum hosted a virtual conference regarding the recent court filing of the Internal Revenue Service, which introduced a reinterpretation of the Johnson Amendment. The conference recording and essays will be published here.
Read essays here from our latest webinar on Law, Religion and Immigration. Our other series include essays on topics like Religious Violations, Transnational Christian Nationalism, IVF, and more.
New York, New York by Mario Hains (CC-BY-SA-3.0). In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, and within five days, the chatbot had acquired one million users. By January 2023, it had become the fastest-growing consumer application in history, with over 100 million monthly active users. The artificial intelligence could write essays, debug code,…
United States Capitol in Washington D.C., by Jarek Tuszyński (CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GDFL). This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and The Johnson Amendment. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Few provisions are more vital to preserving both the integrity of religious organizations and democratic transparency than the Johnson…
Internal Revenue Service Building in Maryland from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and The Johnson Amendment. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. On a Sunday morning in late October 2008, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Pastor Greg Moss of St. Paul Missionary Baptist…
The Reservation Tribal Office at Lake Superior via the National Park Service. From the earliest Supreme Court rulings to the annual presidential proclamations that mark National Native American Heritage Month, the United States has treated Native sovereignty as both a legal and moral question, one rooted as much in theology as in jurisprudence. The very…
View of the Grat Synagogue and the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam by Gerrit Berckheyde (US-PD) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and The Johnson Amendment. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. American clergy have long navigated the seam between preaching values and practicing politics. The so‑called Johnson…
Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington, D.C. Photo from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and The Johnson Amendment. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. Some time around twenty years ago, when I was a lawyer instead of a law professor, I…
A Woman Reading by Ivan Kramskoi (PD-Art). The right and responsibilities of parents regarding their children’s religious education form a foundation of religious freedom. In many legal systems, this right is considered an implicit component of the broader freedom of religion or right to education. However, a specific, explicit constitutional guarantee for parents’ right to…
Lady Justice at The Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy by Jebulon (CC0 1.0) Against the backdrop of the affirmation of the Modern State and the birth of national legal systems, the hundred years from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century represent a period full of changes for Europe also in the legal field. As…
Doctrine of the Two Swords by Unknown (US-PD) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. In the domain of U.S. immigration and border enforcement, one might assume that a consideration of religion would lead to a discussion of xenophobia and…
The President and First Lady Meet with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican by Shealah Craighead (CC BY 3.0 US) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. This paper examines U.S. humanitarian, refugee, and immigration policies in light of…