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“The Creative Peace of ‘Spiritualizing Humanity,’ by Rafael Domingo Oslé & Gonzalo Rodríguez-Fraile Díaz” by Mónica García-Salmones

Jul 18, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, García-Salmones, Mónica, History, July 2022

Spiritualizing Humanityby Rafael Domingo Oslé & Gonzalo Rodríguez-Fraile Díaz Review by Mónica García-Salmones After the spiritualism of the Middle Ages and the humanism of the Renaissance, rationalism conquered a large number of Europe’s intellectuals. For rationalists, the separation of God and reason was the only guarantee that would enable humans to occupy the place they…

“Purity Culture and the Overturn of Roe: Understanding Christian Nationalistic Ideology and its Impact” by Jenny McGrath

Jul 15, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2022, McGrath, Jenny, Politics, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Picture by Petr Ovralov on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Kennedy, Carson, and Dobbs: Law and Religion in Pressing Supreme Court Cases” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On June 24th, the Supreme Court reversed the nearly 50-year-old legal precedent protecting the right to safe abortions in…

“What is an Establishment of Religion?” by Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Jul 14, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, History, Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2022, Muñoz, Vincent Phillip, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Picture by Dave Adamson on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Kennedy, Carson, and Dobbs: Law and Religion in Pressing Supreme Court Cases” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This essay was originally published in First Things before the Supreme Court decided Kennedy v. Bremerton. Though all eyes…

“Black Magic, Black Humor, Serious Hate: Ludic Chaos on the Alt-Right” By Marla Segol

Jul 13, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysJuly 2022, Media and Culture, Politics, Segol, Marla

Picture by Boris Stefanik on Unsplash. One sunny spring day in 2018, I walked into work to find a flier asking its readers “are you tired of feeling bad for being white?” The flier advertised a white supremacist organization called “The Right Stuff” with links to its website. I was surprised and quite concerned to…

“How Sex Discrimination Law Helps Us Resolve LGBTQ Religious Exemption Claims” by Kyle C. Velte

Jul 12, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysConstitutional Law, History, July 2022, Sex and Gender, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS), Velte, Kyle C.

Picture by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash. This essay is based on the author’s 2021 Minnesota Law Review article “The Nineteenth Amendment as a Generative Tool for Defeating LGBT Religious Exemptions.” Since the U.S. Supreme Court held that marriage equality is the law of the land in 2015, American society has been embroiled in a cultural…

“A Theology of Human Rights in an Orthodox Perspective” by Paul Ladouceur

Jul 11, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysEurope (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2022, Ladouceur, Paul

Orthodox Church in Moscow, Russia by Jacqueline Macou on Pixabay. Orthodox Christianity does not have a good reputation on human rights, and indeed Orthodox theologians are deeply divided on human rights, with both strong supporters (such as Stanley Harakas and Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos) and strong opponents (Christos Yannaras and Vigen Guroian). Countries of Orthodox tradition…

“Crisis Pregnancy Centers: How Evangelical Purity Culture Funded Thousands of Anti-Abortion Clinics” by Victoria Houser

Jul 8, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Healthcare, Houser, Victoria, Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2022

This article is part of our “Kennedy, Carson, and Dobbs: Law and Religion in Pressing Supreme Court Cases” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) have periodically received attention in mainstream media outlets for their religious affiliations and anti-abortion positions. This past week, Abigail Abrams and…

“Hiding in Plain Sight: Christian Nationalism’s Threat to Faith Freedom for All” by Jennifer Hawks

Jul 7, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Hawks, Jennifer, July 2022, Politics, Religious Freedom

The U.S. Constitution was enacted “in Order to form a more perfect Union,” and serves as the founding generation’s clarion call to all succeeding generations: The union isn’t perfect, and we must do our part to make it more so. When it comes to protecting religious freedom for all, that means building on the promise…

“Contesting Reunification: Autocephaly and Sovereignty in Ukraine” by Kathryn David

Jun 30, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, David, Kathryn, Europe (Geography), June 2022, Politics

Peace sign in Ukraine by Jack White on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Russia/Ukraine: Law and Religion Perspectives” series. If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. When Russia’s war against Ukraine began, journalists in Russia were instructed to call it a “special operation,” not a “war.” Soon,…