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“Extracting Our Abstractions: Why We Need a Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty” by Edward A. David

Mar 5, 2021Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, David, Edward A., March 2021, Philosophy of Religion, Religious Freedom

A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyEdward A. David Extracting Our Abstractions: Why We Need a Christian Approach to Corporate Religious LibertyAn Introduction by Edward A. David Pointing to the polarization that surrounds disputes like Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014), A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty argues that such cases need not involve…

“Section 230 and the Millstone” by Mark Edward Blankenship Jr.

Mar 4, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysBlankenship Jr., Mark Edward, Christianity, Intellectual Property Law, March 2021, Media and Culture

Image by Hans from Pixabay. The millstone was an integral tool needed to grind grain to make bread and sustain life, and during Biblical times, it was deemed that taking someone’s millstone would be like taking his or her life in pledge. It has been analogized as an instrument of death, a wrath of severe…

“Perfectionist Prophecy, Imperfect World” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Mar 1, 2021Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, March 2021, Religious Freedom

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Perfectionist Prophecy, Imperfect World” Matthew P. Cavedon I recently wrote about Patrick O’Neill, a Catholic activist convicted of vandalizing a nuclear submarine base. The number of connections I have to his case is so high that this article could almost just be my list of disclosures. Here it…

“Vatican Criminal Reforms Ignore Glaring Problems Even as Jurisdiction Expands Worldwide” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Feb 26, 2021Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, Europe (Geography), February 2021

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Vatican Criminal Reforms Ignore Glaring Problems Even as Jurisdiction Expands Worldwide” Matthew P. Cavedon On February 16, Pope Francis announced changes to the Vatican’s criminal code. These alter court procedures to protect a few defense rights and make punishment more merciful. They come alongside recent expansions in the…

“On the Division of Rights” by John Milbank

Feb 24, 2021Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, February 2021, History, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Milbank, John, Philosophy of Religion

Photo by Willian Justen de Vasconcellos on Unsplash. This article is part of our “What’s Wrong with Rights?” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. Contemporary discussions of rights tend to be about where to place a caesura between acceptable and unacceptable kinds of rights. This caesura is primarily a…

“Slaughtering Religious Freedom at the Court of Justice of the European Union” by Andrea Pin and John Witte, Jr.

Feb 16, 2021Canopy ForumSeriesEurope (Geography), February 2021, Judaism, Pin, Andrea, Witte Jr., John

Photo by Ravi Pinisetti on Unsplash. The New Age of Rights In the 1990s, the European Union (EU) seemed to be done. The Old Continent was pacified. Soviet imperialism had melted away. European dictatorships — from Portugal to Spain, from Greece to Romania — had ended. European citizens could travel from Italy to the Netherlands,…

“Which King’s Bay? Religion against the Rules in Nuclear Civil Disobedience” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Feb 15, 2021Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, February 2021, Religious Freedom

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Which King’s Bay? Religion against the Rules in Nuclear Civil Disobedience” Matthew P. Cavedon It is commonplace to understand religion as a building block of identity. We define our personalities in light of any number of characteristics – our religion, nationality, politics, ethnicity, sex, disabilities, and so on.…

“The Intellectual Property of Nations: Returning to Our Beginnings in Christian Legality” by Laura Ford

Feb 12, 2021Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, February 2021, Ford, History, Intellectual Property Law, Laura, Social Sciences

The Intellectual Property of Nations: Returning to Our Beginnings in Christian LegalityLaura Ford An Overview by Laura Ford Laura Ford’s The Intellectual Property of Nations will be published by Cambridge University Press in June 2021. The Church is based on the knowledge of the one eternal God, who as such became man and thereby proved…

“An Insurrection of ‘Law and Order’? The Cycle of Law-Preserving and Law-Making Violence” by J. Brent Crosson

Feb 11, 2021Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Constitutional Law, Crosson, J. Brent, February 2021, History, Politics

Photo by Tom Gainor on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Chaos at the Capitol: Law and Religion Perspectives on Democracy’s Dark Day” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. We are shocked. Morally outraged. How could a U.S. president, touting “law and order,” incite a blatant attack on “American democracy”…

“Onward Christian Soldiers: Addressing American Christianity and Trump” by Deirdre Jonese Austin

Feb 10, 2021Canopy ForumSeriesAustin, Deirdre Jonese, Christianity, February 2021, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Politics

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash. This article is part of our “Chaos at the Capitol: Law and Religion Perspectives on Democracy’s Dark Day” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. “Onward, Christian soldiers!Marching as to war,With the cross of Jesus Going on before.” Though this began as a song for a…

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