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“America’s Constitutional Theology: Sovereignty and Grace In Bostock, Espinoza, and Our Lady of Guadalupe” by William E. Thro

Feb 5, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Constitutional Law, February 2021, Politics, Thro, William E., US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Photo by Jorge Alcala on Unsplash. Constitutional Theology is the intersection of theology with constitutional theory. Constitutional Theology recognizes that the constitutional design will reflect society’s beliefs about the nature of humanity or those who rule. At the same time, it acknowledges that, if the constitutional system is to work, a faith’s interactions with the…

“The Cross and the Criminal Record” by Darrin Sims

Jan 26, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Criminal Law, January 2021, Sims, Darrin

Photo by Guido Coppa on Unsplash. Though you might not know it, you’re probably familiar with the Biblical story of Barabbas. Appearing only briefly in the crucifixion narrative of the New Testament, Barabbas is the prisoner who was chosen by the crowd, over Jesus Christ, to be released by Pontius Pilate in a customary pardon…

“Religious Tests, Religious Freedom, and ‘Animus’ and ‘Bigotry’ at the Supreme Court” by M. Christian Green

Dec 23, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Constitutional Law, December 2020, Green, M. Christian, Politics, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Photo by David Veksler on Unsplash This article is part of our “Notorious ACB: Law, Religion, and Justice Barrett’s Ascent to the Court” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The No Religious Test Clause within Article VI, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution is a special text in…

“Religious Freedom, Public Health, and the Limits of Law” by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Dec 21, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysConstitutional Law, December 2020, Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman, Politics, Religious Freedom

Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Brooklyn, NY. Source: Jim Henderson / Wikimedia CC0-1.0 This article is part of our “Notorious ACB: Law, Religion, and Justice Barrett’s Ascent to the Court” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. The U.S. government designates certain entities as “religious” and enforces different rules…

“QAnon as a Religion” by Annabelle Bichler

Dec 18, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBichler, Annabelle, Christianity, Constitutional Law, December 2020, Media and Culture, Politics

Photo from Pixabay On October 28, 2017, a post appeared on 4chan, an anonymous online message board, alleging Hillary Clinton’s imminent arrest and a subsequent violent national uprising. The poster, whose username was simply the letter “Q,” claimed to be a high-ranking government intelligence officer with access to classified information. Hillary Clinton was not arrested…

“Questioning Justice Barrett’s Questions in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia” by Patrick Hornbeck

Dec 9, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Constitutional Law, December 2020, Hornbeck, Patrick, Politics, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Image by Liane Metzle from Unsplash This article is part of our “Notorious ACB: Law, Religion, and Justice Barrett’s Ascent to the Court” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. When Amy Coney Barrett took the bench November 4 for her third day of oral arguments as an associate justice…

“Contemporary Homeschooling: Black Children’s Best Interests, Freedom from Religion, and Anti-Racism” by Cheryl Fields-Smith and Andrea L. Dennis

Dec 8, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysDennis, Andrea L., Education, Fields-Smith, Cheryl, November 2020, Race and Ethnicity, Religious Freedom

Photo by Kelli Tungay on Unsplash This article is part of our “Children and Education Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. “I’m just not going to do that. I’m one of these secular homeschoolers. I am not going to join a church to homeschool. I don’t feel comfortable…

“Thanksgiving and Traditional Jewish Life: Celebrating American Holidays and Jewish Law” by Michael J. Broyde

Nov 26, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysBroyde, Michael J., Judaism, Media and Culture, November 2020

Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Introduction This short posting on what the Jewish tradition has to say about Thanksgiving will strike some as surprising — so a word of background might be helpful. Traditional Jews do not celebrate holidays of another religion and have always shied away from even nominally secular holidays that are…

“Religion-Making in Japan’s Courts of Law” by Ernils Larsson

Nov 24, 2020Canopy ForumEssays“Other”, Asia (Geography), Buddhism, History, Larsson, Ernils, November 2020, Religious Freedom

Photo from Unsplash When Japan set out to reinvent itself as a modern nation-state in the second half of the 19th century, the new generation of policymakers had to navigate a plethora of foreign concepts as the vocabulary of Western thought was translated into Japanese. While many of these concepts were essentially new philosophical outlooks…

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