Photo by Quiritium on Flickr (CC) An earlier version of this essay first appeared [here] on [Talk About: Law and Religion], the official blog of Brigham Young University’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies. This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here.…
“Slave Ship: Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On” by J.M.W. Turner 1840 / Wikimedia / PD This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the the second installment of a three-part series that explores legal, religious,…
“Slave Ship: Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On” by J.M.W. Turner 1840 / Wikimedia / PD This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the first installment of a three-part series that explores legal, religious, and…
Photo by marybettiniblank on Pixabay (CC) This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Families across America are running for cover from COVID-19. And for good reason: as of today, the United States has over 15,000 confirmed cases. More than 200 Americans are…
Photo by Ichigo121212 on Pixabay This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On September 6, 2018, a 26-year-old black accountant, Botham Jean, was murdered in his own apartment at the hands of a white, off-duty police officer, Amber Guyger. Mistaking Jean’s…
Low Angle Photo of Brown and Gray Cathedral during Daytime by Kris Schulze (Pexels CC) The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (“the 2004 Act”) was described by the then Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as an “important and groundbreaking piece of legislation,” as well as “the greatest advance towards equality for lesbian, gay,…
Photo by Anna Shvets (Pixels CC) This article is part of our “Reflecting on COVID-19” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Challenging times can bring out the very best in people, but these times also seem to prompt far less commendable actions by others. There are always those happy and…
This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This article is adapted from the authors’ forthcoming book: Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (2020) from Cambridge University Press. By the time the English settled Virginia in…
Image of Religious Ceremony/ by Andrè Mellagi/ Flickr / This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Last August, DECRADI (a specialized police force in Rio de Janeiro that handles crimes of religious and racial intolerance) announced that since the beginning of…
Pixabay (License) An earlier Spanish-language version of this essay was recently published on CNN en Español. Recently, the Catholic Church has begun an internal conversation about ordaining married men as priests. This move would mark a significant change from what has been the settled policy of the Latin Church for a thousand years, under which…