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Image by Bhargava Marripati from Pixabay 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. Earlier this year, Harvard Magazine, the university’s alumni publication, interviewed Elizabeth Bartholet, professor at Harvard Law School and faculty director of its Child Advocacy Program, for an…
Image from Pixabay 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. If you’re looking for a convenient signpost to mark the beginning of the homeschooling movement in the U.S. you might choose the publication of the first ever newsletter devoted to…
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…
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…
Image from 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. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates states, through local school boards or education agencies, to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to all children with disabilities. To…
Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Opening the Doors to Perception” Matthew P. Cavedon This past Election Day saw a shift in the treatment of psychedelics, with voters in Oregon and the District of Columbia legalizing their use. This comes a year after Denver decriminalized them. Psychedelics’ ability to alter perceptions of reality –…
Image by Sharon Mccutcheon 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. Since time immemorial, whether as evidenced by the cave paintings from prehistoric France, the polytheistic religions of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, or the animistic belief…
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. Why Suffer the Children? Overcoming Christian Opposition to Children’s Rights by John Witte, Jr. John Witte, Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor of Religion, and Director of the Center for…
Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “If God is a God of Redemption, Should Government Get in the Way?” Teri Thompson If the greatest sinner on earth should repent at the moment of death, and draw his last breath in an act of love, neither the many graces he has abused, nor the many…
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…