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“We Have Come into His House: The Black Church, Florida’s Stop Woke, and the Fight to Teach Black History – Part II” by Timothy Welbeck

Apr 25, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2024, Christianity, Education, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Welbeck, Timothy

Old Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee by DXR (CC BY-SA 4.0) We Have Come Into His House is an essay published in two corresponding parts. The first part specifically examined recent Florida legislation that has restricted and restructured the way classrooms in primary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions within the state may explore topics relating to race and racism.…

“We Have Come into His House: The Black Church, Florida’s Stop WOKE, and the Fight to Teach Black History – Part I” by Timothy Welbeck

Apr 23, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2024, Christianity, Education, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Politics, Welbeck, Timothy

Old Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee by DXR (CC BY-SA 4.0). We have come into His house to gather in His name to worship Him” – Bruce Ballinger “We request Black teachers of Black studies. It is not that we believe only Black people can understand the Black experience. It is, rather, that we acknowledge the difference…

“A Belated Book Review: Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman, ‘Israel’s Emerging Constitution’ (1954) and Its Continued Relevance” by Michael J. Broyde

Apr 18, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysAsia (Geography), Broyde, Michael J., Constitutional Law, Judaism, Politics

Nuremburg Trials Protocols by David Shay (CC BY 3.0 DEED) Prologue Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman (b. 1910, d. 2008) was a unique figure in the Orthodox Jewish community. Besides his well-known intellectual brilliance, he was involved with nearly every important Orthodox organization in America for many decades and then moved to Israel to be the…

“Religious Charter Schools: A New Horizon for the Establishment Clause and School Choice” by Charles J. Russo

Apr 16, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysConstitutional Law, Education, Family Law, Politics, Russo, Charles J.

Oklahoma City’s Skyline by Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau (CC BY-SA 3.0). The school choice movement spurred on by Milton Friedman’s highly influential 1955 essay, The Role of Government in Education, affords parents greater opportunities to select where their children can be educated. A key component in this movement are charter schools. Charter schools…

Affirmative Action, Religious Liberty, and The Freedom to Discriminate by Rachel F. Moran

Mar 13, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysEducation, March 2024, Moran, Rachel F., Politics, Religious Freedom

Photo by Andrew Tan on Pixabay (CCO). Debates over affirmative action in higher education have raged for years. Supporters of the programs argue that they promote inclusion, while opponents believe that they are nothing more than reverse discrimination. A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has banned the use of racial preferences in admissions…

“Playing with Fire (Again): Authoritarian Tendencies in Max Weber’s Thought” by David Little

Feb 29, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysEurope (Geography), February 2024, History, Little, David, Politics

Street sign of Max Weber Square. Cholo Alemen on Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA-3.0) Editorial Note: Page numbers in the text refer to the prior publication linked in the text. In an earlier article in this publication on Robert A. Yelle’s book, Sovereignty and the Sacred, I claimed that Yelle fails to take seriously the distressing theoretical and…

“Ukraine’s Religious Persecution” by Lawrence A. Uzzell

Feb 16, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Europe (Geography), Orthodox Christianity, Politics, Religious Freedom

Photo of Ukrainian Flag from Pixabay Religious freedom is ominously shrinking in Ukraine. Unlike Moscow, post-Soviet Kiev used to tolerate the various rival Eastern Orthodox Christian jurisdictions. But Kiev is now blatantly persecuting the UOC (Ukrainian Orthodox Church), favoring the OCU (Orthodox Church of Ukraine). Ukraine’s parliament has passed the first reading of a bill…

“Dissenting Voices: Unveiling Complexity in the Russian Orthodox Church’s Stance on the Ukraine Conflict” by Evgeniia Muzychenko

Jan 19, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Europe (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, January 2024, Orthodox Christianity, Politics

Picture of a dome at the Cathedral of Peter and Paul, Petergof, Russia. Taken by Author. Expressing the position of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) regarding the conflict in Ukraine, the media predominantly concentrates on the stance articulated by Patriarch Kirill, a longtime ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin. In his capacity as the head…

“Tracking Religious Liberty in the States over Time” by Jordan J. Ballor

Jan 6, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysBallor, Jordan J., January 2024, Politics, Religious Freedom

Panorama of “Religious Liberty” Statue in Philadelphia by Andrey Bobrovsky (CC BY 3.0 Deed). Since its founding, the United States has had a unique national commitment to religious liberty, most notably exemplified in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Ratified in 1791, it serves as the primary basis for the nation’s legal recognition of religious…

“‘Churches Can, Mosques Can’t’: Race, Immigration, and Islam in Belgium” by Hafsa Oubou

Jan 4, 2024Canopy ForumEssaysEurope (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, Islam, January 2024, Religious Freedom

View of the Lys river in the centre of Ghent, Belgium by Joaquim Alves Gaspar (CC BY-SA 3.0 Deed). In July 2023, the government of the Netherlands abruptly collapsed amid a heated disagreement over migration. At the core of this debate was an attempt to limit the right of child refugees from war zones to…