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- “AI Regulation and the Risk of Ideological Capture: When Tech Becomes Religion” by Isaac May
Nature (AI) by Alan Warburton (CC BY 4.0). In 2014, users on LessWrong, an internet forum, encountered a post by… - “Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Religious Freedom: The Case of Chí’chil Biłdagoteel” by Brady Earley
Tonto National Forest by Janet Ward (CC BY 2.0). Among the Supreme Court’s most significant decisions on religious exercise this… - “Catholic Social Teaching and Agnosticism about Democracy in the US Church” by Massimo Faggioli
St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia by Joe Ravi (CC-BY-SA 3.0). With the election of Leo XIV, who chose… - “Pakistan’s Hybrid Legal System: Negotiated Coexistence of Secular and Islamic Law” by Jo D. Chitlik and Rashid Mehmood
Shah Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, Pakistan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s legal system presents a… - “Complexifying Psychedelic “Mysticism”: Analytical, Therapeutic, and Legal Considerations” by Jay Michaelson
AI image made by the author to demonstrate Aldous Huxley‘s writing. “Mysticism” – the experience of union with ultimate reality… - “In Defense of Defense” by David Little
United States Department of Defense Building (US-PD). The executive order of President Trump to turn the Department of Defense into the Department of War is profoundly… - “Demonizing Transgender People for Recent Shootings Is Demonic” by Matt Cavedon
A Church Interior by Pieter Neefs the Elder (PD-US). I wrote this essay following the mass shooting at Minneapolis’s Annunciation… - “Freedom of Communal Prayer in the Primary Sources of Islamic Law and Under the Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan” by Lutforahman Saeed
Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan by Françoise Foliot (CC BY-SA 4.0). The right of women to participate in communal prayers is… - “Are Christians the Most Persecuted Religious Group Worldwide?” by Miray Philips
Church of St. John at Kaneo, Ohrid by Kallerna (CC BY-SA 4.0). The perception that Christianity is under attack has… - “Jirgas: Rogue Agents of Conflict Resolution” by Jo Chitlik
This image is an AI-generated depiction based on descriptions of similar events. The recent renewed public outrage over a video… - “Democracy and Religions in Italy Beyond the Concordat and Agreements: Towards a Participatory Model” by Davide Dimodugno
Italian Chamber of Deputies in Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, Italy by Palazzo del Quirinale (PD-ItalyGov) This paper summarizes and translates into… - “Federal Theology as Political Theology” By Pablo Ava
Reading the Bible by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (US-PD). During the Protestant Reformation, the Herborn Academy was a Calvinist Reformed institution located… - “Balancing Faith and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace” by Michael J. Broyde
Courtroom Bench Gavel by Patrick Feller (CC BY 2.0). A new memorandum from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM),… - “Alignment to Nothing: AI and the Moral Power of the Silence to Be Human” by Kevin Lee
Monks in Majestic Bhaga Valley, India by Vyacheslav Argenberg © (CC BY 4.0). Breonna Taylor was an emergency room technician… - “The Illusion of The Repugnant Client: Hindu Ethics in American Legal Practice” by Sai Santosh Kumar Kolluru
Hindu Temple in the United States via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). Every Hindu-American lawyer at some point in their… - “Washington State and the Priest-Penitent Privilege Redux: The Federal Trial Court Injunction” by Charles J. Russo
View of the Vatican City Gardens by Patrik Kunec (CC BY-SA 4.0). My earlier column reviewed Washington’s recently passed Senate… - “Land Use in Texas: Muslims for Christian Secular Values” by Sharmin Sadequee
Islamic Da’wah Center in Houston, Texas by Jim Evans (CC BY-SA 4.0). From McKinney to Weatherford to Josephine, Texans are… - “Greener Doesn’t Equal Fairer: Centering Justice and Inclusion in Sustainability Transitions” by E.K. Wilson
“Climate Angels at Extinction Rebellion Declaration Day Melbourne” by John Englart (CC BY-SA 2.0) “I don’t want the same world,… - Biblical Demons in Modern Healthcare: The Book of Tobit and Health Policy by Nathan Perl, Devorah Shoenfeld, & Daniel Swartzman
The Healing of Tobit by Bernardo Strozzi (CC0 1.0). There is ongoing discourse about the relationship between patient agency and… - “Does Religious Peacekeeping Still Matter If It Doesn’t Produce Peace?” by Peter Henne
Russell Senate Office Building by Architect of the Capitol (US-PD). During his second term, President Barack Obama attempted to restart… - “More a Church than a Crown? The Spanish Inquisition and Las Casas’s Legal Thought” by Matthew Cavedon
The Inquisition Tribunal by Francisco Goya (PD-Art). Bartolomé de Las Casas (c.1484–1566)—the first Catholic bishop of the Americas—commented on many… - “Reflections on Washington State’s Effort to Eliminate the Priest-Penitent Privilege” by Charles J. Russo
Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City via Wikimedia Commons (CC0-01). Washington’s controversial Senate Bill 5375, “An ACT Relating to the duty… - “The Sovereign Within: Self-Knowledge and Virtuous Governance” by Sunil Rao
School of Athens, painting by Rafael (US-PD). Throughout history, rulers facing crises have often turned to oracles, sages, and spiritual… - “Mike Nichols, the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the Catholic Legion of Decency” by Emily Turner
Photo of Mike Nichols at the National Film Society Convention by Alan Light (CC BY 2.0). In the fall of… - “The Ethical Spirit of AI Constitutionalism” by M. Christian Green
ChatGPT Rendering of AI via Wikimedia Commons (PD). In the spring of 2024, the state of Louisiana faced a critical… - “Pope Leo XIV Speaks on Natural Law, Human Rights, and Artificial Intelligence” by Matthew P. Cavedon
Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo via Metropolitan Museum of Art (US-PD). On June 21, Pope Leo… - “The Constitutional Limits of Aid to Students in Faith-Based Schools in The United States and Australia: A Brief Comparative Analysis” by Charles J. Russo and P. T. Babie
Australian House of Representatives by JJ Harrison (CC BY-SA 3.0). The constitutional protections for religious freedom and against the establishment… - “Is Anything Sacred? Trump and the Truths We Hold” by David Little
John Trumbull’s painting, Declaration of Independence, (PD-Art). In a recent newsletter to Atlantic subscribers, editor Jeffrey Goldberg refers to the cover… - “When Dharma Meets Dobbs: Navigating Abortion Through the Hindu-American Lens” by Sai Santosh Kumar Kolluru
Tripura Sundari Hindu Temple via WikiMedia Commons (CC0 1.0) In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme… - “Leo XIV: The Pope of Unity” by Rafael Domingo
The Facade of St. Peter’s Basilica upon Leo XIV’s first appearance via WikiMedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). With the election… - “Dominion and Stewardship: Imaging God in Creation” by Matthew P. Cavedon
Miraculous Fishing by Lodewijk Toeput (PD-Art) Does the Book of Genesis authorize human beings to ruthlessly exploit nature? Many environmentalist… - “Comparative Answers to Contemporary Challenge of Legal Authoritarianism: The Case of Kuwait” by Courtney Freer
North Kuwait City by Francisco Anzolaivi (CC BY-SA 2.0) Kuwait, prior to May 2024, presented political scientists with a valuable… - “The ethics of procedure: traffic laws, modern technology and the reconfiguration of Privacy in the Arabian Gulf” by Alexandre Caeiro
Image by Paasikivi on Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) The implementation of Islamic criminal law has been characterized as a paradox.… - “Police Abolitionisms: Political Goals and Religious Ideals” by Charles Guth III
Image by David Geitgey Sierralupe on Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0) The United States has a policing problem. American police have… - “Will Abū Ḥanīfa Have a Beer and Smoke Ḥashīsh with Me in Jannah? Changing Perceptions of Khamr, Ijmā’, Bid’ah, and Sunnīte Islamic Law” by Scott Bursey
Frontispiece from a copy of Kalila wa Dimna of Abuʼl-Maʻali Nasr Allah by Unknown Author (Public Domain). Unlike the authoritative… - “Justifiable Limitations Upon Freedom of Religion and Belief in Australia’s Draft Human Rights Bill: Lessons from the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990” by P. T. Babie
Image of Dunedin, New Zealand by Arvid Olson from Pixabay While Section 116 of the Australian Constitution appears textually to provide broad protection… - “Speaking Truth to Power in Challenging Times: Lessons from the Arab Spring Politics of Muslim Jurists” by Muhammad Amasha
Image by Bassel Zaki from Pixabay. I spent the last six years studying the politics of intellectuals, broadly understood as… - “Catholic Fraternal Pluralism and Respect for Conscience” by Matthew P. Cavedon
Basilica of Saint Peter by Carlo Armanni from Pixabay. Pope Francis envisions human fraternity in his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti.… - “Religious Elements of the Sudanese Civil War” by Christopher Tounsel
Sudanese President Omar al Bashir in Juba, Sudan by Al Jazeera English (CC BY-SA 2.0). On April 15, 2023, civil… - “IVF Returns to the Spotlight: Dobbs, Fetal Personhood, and Extra-Uterine Embryos” by Emma Kennedy
Baby at Play by Thomas Eakins (CC0 1.0) Critiques of President Trump’s recent executive order on in vitro fertilization (IVF)… - “Constitutions Address Religious Freedom, but Not as Much as Desired” by Dennis Petri and Jonathan Fox
The Village Lawyer by Pieter Brueghel (US-PD). The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho… - “The Wolf in Sheep’s Skin: Promises and Realities of Religious Freedom in China” by Grace Gaffet
Photo of Kaifeng North Mosque by Windmemories (CC BY-SA 4.0) The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration… - “Defining a Muslim; The Case of Pakistan and its Ahmadis” by Yasser Latif Hamdani
Main chamber of Badshahi Mosque by User:Amjad.m (CC BY-SA 3.0) On January 16th, 2025, the government of Punjab, Pakistan’s most… - “Boiling a Kid in its Mother’s Milk: Norms and Interpretations of Kashrut” by Atid Malka
Baby Goats Resting on the Road by Amaury Laporte (CC BY-SA 2.0). If anyone unfamiliar with Judaism were to be… - “Open Marriages: A Jewish Couple’s Solution?” by Atid Malka
Jewish Wedding by Wincenty Smokowski (1858, US-PD). Throughout the Pentateuch and subsequently in the books of the Prophets and Writings,… - “’No Idols In Our Town’: Competing for Religious Space in Kisumu, Kenya” by Esha Faki Mwinyihaji
Photo of Kisumu Municipal Hall by (WT-fr) Omondi (CC BY-SA 3.0) Kisumu is a cosmopolitan city that lies on the… - “Limited Dominion in Early Modern Political Theologies” by Elisabeth Rain Kincaid and Matthew P. Cavedon
Image by David Vives from Pixabay. American politics have taken increasingly surprising turns in recent years. One of the more… - “Secularity, Dignity, and Human Rights: A Review of Human Rights in a Divided World by David Hollenbach, S.J.” by David Little
View from the Arc de Triomphe in France by Pierre Blaché (CC0 1.0.) In a definitive study of the origins,… - “Religious Belief as an Existential Threat: How Russia Victimizes Religious Minorities in Russia and in the Occupied Territories of Ukraine” by Dr. Kyriaki Topidi
“Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” by Ilya Repin (CC0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian Nationalism,… - Gender, Russian Orthodoxy, and the Invention of “Traditional” Values by Regina Elsner
Russian Orthodox Church, Rocklea, Russia by Bert Knot (CC 2.0) This article is part of our series on Transnational Christian… - “Fraternity: The Long Lost Companion of Liberty and Equality in the United States” by Marguerite Hattouni Spencer
Image by Filip Filipović from Pixabay Our nation is at a crossroads. In light of our calcifying divisiveness in the… - “Good Vibes Only: The “Aloha Spirit” in Hawaiʻi Constitutional Interpretation” by Aaron Walayat
Image by Talpa from Pixabay In 2017, Christopher Wilson, a resident of Maui, Hawaiʻi, was charged by the state for… - “Towards a Multidimensional Understanding of Places of Worship for Rights Balancing in Colombia” by John Osorio
Image by Neidy Girado from Pixabay (license). The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho… - “The Muslim Family Law Reform: Exploring Cross-National and Historical Differences” by Yüksel Sezgin
Illustration commissioned for this project by Tahira Rifath Fifty-three nations (35 Muslim-majority, 18 Muslim-minority) formally integrate shari‘a-based Muslim Family Laws… - “Normative Development of Religious Freedom in Latin America: Counter-Transfer of Religious Policies” by Camila A. Sánchez Sandoval
Santuario de Las Lajas, Ipiales, Colombia by Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0) The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy… - “Cuba: A Legal Framework that Restricts the Right to Religious Freedom” by Teresa I. Flores
Image of Palacio del Centro Asturiano, Havana, Cuba by Carol M. Highsmith (CC0) The following essay is reprinted and adapted… - “Violence in Nigeria: discussion of the statistical evidence for the disproportionate targeting of Christians” by Dennis P. Petri & John Bainbridge
Makoko Lagos, Nigeria by Collins Okoh (CC BY-SA 4.0) A longstanding debate in the social sciences concerns whether violence in… - “St. Isidore of Seville Redux: Do Faith-Based Charter Schools Have a Future?” by Charles J. Russo
St. Isidore of Seville (1655) depicted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (CC0). Introduction As I discussed previously, a controversy arose on June 5,… - “Teaching the Ten Commandments and Bible in Public Schools is about Race and History, Not Just the First Amendment” by Leslie Ribovich
Image of Ten Commandments outside of Stephens County Courthouse from WikiMedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). It’s already back to school time,… - “Promoting Diversity Through Court-Mandated Mediation” by Jo Chitlik
Photo of Supreme Court of Pakistan from Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Pakistan’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Act (XX of 2017)… - “The Illiberalism of Aleksandr Dugin: Romantic Anti-Capitalism, Occult-Fascism, and the War in Ukraine” by Thomas Jared Farmer
Photo of Aleksandr Dugin on Wikimedia by Mahdieh Gaforian (CC BY-SA 4.0). Alexandr Dugin is a Russian ultranationalist political theorist and television… - “Law and Religion in the People’s Republic of China” by Carsten Vala
Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China by Maros (CC BY-SA 3.0) In this article, I will make some general arguments… - A Religious “Delaware”: Establishing a State Haven for Religious Corporations by Ian Speir
The Arrival of Pilgrim Fathers by Antonio Gisbert (Public Domain) Protections for the religious freedom and internal affairs of religious… - “Holy Warheads: Russian Orthodox Christianity as Weaponized Culture” by Elaine Wilson
Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces Patriot on Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). In an interview at the beginning of… - “Religious Exemptions and Retaliation under Title IX” by Constance Couch
Photo on Wikimedia by EOverbey (CC BY-SA 3.0). In 2013, Jane Doe 6 was a residential student at Liberty University,… - Reflecting on State Cooperation with Religion in Europe by Silvia Meseguer Velasco
Image of European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France on Wikimedia by CherryX (CC BY-SA 3.0). The following essay… - “How Will Preachers Address Social Issues During the 2024 Election?” by Leah D. Schade, Wayne Thompson, & Amanda Wilson Harper
A Field Sermon by Anna Ancher (CC0 1.0). Since Donald Trump’s appointment of conservative Supreme Court justices beginning in 2017,… - “Seeing like a Church, Seeing like a State: The Church-State Relation in Religious Asylum Adjudications” by Jaeeun Kim
Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Bury, England. Photo by Michael Beckwith (CC BY 3.0). Religion is one… - “God & Country: A Look at White Christian Nationalism that Both Enlightens and Disappoints” by David Little
Mount Rushmore, USA by Dean Franklin (CC BY 2.0). Rob Reiner’s recent movie, God & Country is, to be sure,… - “The Violent Incidents Database: A Social Innovation for Religious Freedom” by Dennis P. Petri and Kyle Wisdom
Casa de la Libertad (Freedom House) in Sucre, Bolivia by Dan Lundberg (CC BY-SA 2.0). The Growing Sophistication of Religious… - “Love for the Stranger: The New Testament Imperative” by Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Arnold
Photo by Pexels on Pixabay (CCO). In a recent campaign speech, Donald Trump referred to immigrants as a “poisoning of… - “The Stranger in the Hebrew Bible” by Ryan Bonfiglio
Code of Hammurabii via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). In a March 5, 2024 headline, the NY Times named immigration… - “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
Old Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee by DXR (CC BY-SA 4.0) We Have Come Into His House is an essay published in two… - “We Have Come into His House: The Black Church, Florida’s Stop WOKE, and the Fight to Teach Black History – Part I” by Timothy WelbeckOld Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee by DXR (CC BY-SA 4.0). We have come into His house to gather in His…
- “A Belated Book Review: Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman, ‘Israel’s Emerging Constitution’ (1954) and Its Continued Relevance” by Michael J. Broyde
Nuremburg Trials Protocols by David Shay (CC BY 3.0 DEED) Prologue Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman (b. 1910, d. 2008) was… - “Religious Charter Schools: A New Horizon for the Establishment Clause and School Choice” by Charles J. Russo
Oklahoma City’s Skyline by Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau (CC BY-SA 3.0). The school choice movement spurred on by… - Affirmative Action, Religious Liberty, and The Freedom to Discriminate by Rachel F. Moran
Photo by Andrew Tan on Pixabay (CCO). Debates over affirmative action in higher education have raged for years. Supporters of… - “Playing with Fire (Again): Authoritarian Tendencies in Max Weber’s Thought” by David Little
Street sign of Max Weber Square. Cholo Alemen on Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA-3.0) Editorial Note: Page numbers in the text refer to… - “Ukraine’s Religious Persecution” by Lawrence A. Uzzell
Photo of Ukrainian Flag from Pixabay Religious freedom is ominously shrinking in Ukraine. Unlike Moscow, post-Soviet Kiev used to tolerate… - “Dissenting Voices: Unveiling Complexity in the Russian Orthodox Church’s Stance on the Ukraine Conflict” by Evgeniia Muzychenko
Picture of a dome at the Cathedral of Peter and Paul, Petergof, Russia. Taken by Author. Expressing the position of… - “Tracking Religious Liberty in the States over Time” by Jordan J. Ballor
Panorama of “Religious Liberty” Statue in Philadelphia by Andrey Bobrovsky (CC BY 3.0 Deed). Since its founding, the United States… - “‘Churches Can, Mosques Can’t’: Race, Immigration, and Islam in Belgium” by Hafsa Oubou
View of the Lys river in the centre of Ghent, Belgium by Joaquim Alves Gaspar (CC BY-SA 3.0 Deed). In… - “Playing with Fire: The Normative and Prescriptive Implications of Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Sovereignty” by David Little
Home of Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg-Pasel (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0). Editorial Note: Page numbers in the text refer to… - “Religious Freedom and Comparative Law: The Protection of Rights and the Exception of Religious Freedom” by Andrea Pin, Nicholas Aroney, & et al.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C by King of Hearts (CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed). As the world celebrates the 75th… - “Ghosts of Law and Religion: The Paranormal Fascination and the Bounds of Knowledge and Experience” by M. Christian Green
Photo titled “Ghosts, Spooky” from Pixabay (License). As anyone with cable or streaming television in the United States knows, it’s… - “303 Creative v. Elenis, Groff v. DeJoy and the Difference a Sentence Can Make” by Mark Satta
Picture by Todd van Hoosear (CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED). In June 2023, the Supreme Court announced two significant First Amendment… - “Christians Shouldn’t Celebrate 303 Creative: A Perspective from the Missio Dei” by David W. Opderbeck
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia by Peter H. on Pixabay. Many Christians celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision in… - “Death Sentence and Imprisonment under Nigerian Blasphemy Laws” by Georgia du Plessis
“Okotie Eboh Street, Lagos, Nigeria” by Obinna Okerekeocha on Unsplash. Blasphemy is the “act of insulting or showing contempt or… - “‘60s Dreaming: Social Uplift Aims and Contradictions” by R. Drew Smith
“Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.” Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd on Unsplash. O n August 28, 1963, Martin Luther… - “An Illustrative Approach to Religious Freedom Violations in Nigeria” by Dennis P. Petri
Lagos, Nigeria by Nupo Deyon Daniel on Unsplash. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse federation of 36 autonomous states… - “How German Muslims and Christians Criticize Capitalism” by Christian Sperneac-Wolfer
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Throughout its history, capitalism has been met with harsh religious resistance and objections. Today, both… - “Under the Protection of God: Does the Preamble of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 Allow Freedom of Expression solely for Christians?” by Damião Benilson Gomes de Melo, Rafaela Albuquerque Fires & J. Ernesto Pimentel Filho
Picture of the Supremo Tribunal Federal in Brazil by Dennis W. Asfour (CC BY-SA 4.0). In Brazil, the constitutional preamble… - “Watering the Seeds of Consciousness through Sound : Logos, Shabd, and the Implications for Natural Law” by Sunil Rao
Heraclitus, ‘the weeping philosopher’, by Johannes Moreelse (PD-US). The human inclination to search for timeless and transcendent truths, and transform… - “Faith in Interpretation” by Aaron J. Walayat
Abraham and the Angels by Andries Snellinck (PD-US). What is the relationship between faith and constitutional interpretation? Superficially understood, this… - “‘Luminous and Obscure’: Into the Depths of Constitutional Meaning” by Perry Dane
James West investigating the Constitution. From NASA (PD-US). Let’s explore an out of the ordinary way of thinking about the… - “The Right to Conscientious Objection Under Martial Law in Ukraine” by Illia Roskoshnyi
From the President of Ukraine (PD-US). The right to conscientious objection to military service as a fundamental human right is… - “Iran’s Political Agenda: Women’s Bodies at the Intersection of Religion and Law” by Faegheh Shirazi
A sign with “Woman, Life, Freedom” (Jin, Jiyan Azadi) in Central and Northern Kurdish by Pirehelokan (CC BY-SA 4.0). As… - “Chinese Persecution of the Uyghur: A Case of Genocide” by Ali Çaksu
Demonstration for Uyghur rights in Berlin by Leonhard Lenz (CC0 1.0). Uyghurs are a Muslim Turkic people who have been… - “Religion, Law, and Governance in Premodern Hindu Political Theory” by John Nemec
Prambanan Temple Complex in Yogyakarta Indonesia. Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas. (CC BY-SA 3.0). Political theory in premodern South Asia… - “‘A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast’*: Early Modern Christian German-speakers, and the Rights of Other Creatures” by Anthony Roeber
*(Proverbs: 12:10); “The Good Shepherd, St. Botolph without Aldersgate” by Andrewrabbott (CC BY-SA 4.0). The present essay explores why the…