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“Big Brother and the New Ministry of Truth: How President Trump’s Executive Order May have Disastrous Consequences for Religious Freedom” by Kristina Arriaga

Jun 15, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysArriaga, Kristina, Christianity, June 2020, Politics, Religious Freedom

Black and Silver Laptop Computer, Jolo Diaz, Pexels Last month, for the first time ever, Twitter fact-checked two presidential tweets. In response, President Donald Trump issued an executive order which would, in essence, eliminate a pillar of U.S. internet law, the protections contained in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230). CDA 230…

“Sudan Criminalizes FGM” by Adrienne Phillips

Jun 12, 2020Canopy ForumConvictionAfrica (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, Islam, June 2020, Phillips, Adrienne

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “Sudan Criminalizes FGM” Adrienne Phillips Sudan recently criminalized female genital mutilation (FGM). According to the United Nations, about 87 percent of Sudanese women between the ages of fourteen and forty-nine have undergone some form of FGM. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide, “more than 200 million…

“The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights – Part IV” by David Little

Jun 11, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, June 2020, Little, David, Philosophy

Landscape Photo of Mountains Under Gray Sky,eberhard grossgasteiger, Pexels (CC0) This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the final installment of a four-part essay in which Dr. David Little develops a unified theory of human rights based…

“The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights – Part III” by David Little

Jun 10, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, June 2020, Little, David, Philosophy

Landscape Photo of Mountains Under Gray Sky,eberhard grossgasteiger, Pexels (CC0) This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the third installment of a four-part essay in which Dr. David Little develops a unified theory of human rights based…

“The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights – Part II” by David Little

Jun 9, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, June 2020, Little, David, Philosophy

Landscape Photo of Mountains Under Gray Sky, eberhard grossgasteiger, Pexels (CC0) This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the second installment of a four-part essay in which Dr. David Little develops a unified theory of human rights…

“The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights – Part I” by David Little

Jun 8, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, June 2020, Little, David, Philosophy

Landscape Photo of Mountains Under Gray Sky,eberhard grossgasteiger, Pexels (CC0) This article is part of our “Self-Defense and Human Rights” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. This is the first installment of a four-part essay in which Dr. David Little develops a unified theory of human rights based…

“I Swear to God: Oaths, Accommodations, and the Binding of Conscience” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Jun 5, 2020Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., History, June 2020, Religious Freedom

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “I Swear to God: Oaths, Accommodations, and the Binding of Conscience” Matthew P. Cavedon Watch any courtroom drama and you know something serious is about to happen when a witness takes an oath. In the typical Hollywood version, it goes like this: “Do you swear to tell the…

“REVIEW: Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy by Condorelli and Domingo”

Jun 4, 2020Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Europe (Geography), June 2020, Witte Jr., John

Law and the Christian Tradition in Italy edited by Orazio Condorelli and Rafael Domingo Review by John Witte Jr. This volume is part of a 50-volume series on “Great Christian Jurists in World History,” presenting the interaction of law and Christianity through the biographies of 1000 legal figures of the past two millennia. Commissioned by…

““God, Sometimes You Don’t Come Through”: The Presentation of Religious Trauma Syndrome Through Rock Music – Part III” by Maggie Parker

Jun 3, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Healthcare, June 2020, Parker, Maggie

“Audience enjoying a concert” by Yvette de Wit / Wikimedia / CC0 1.0 This is the third installment of a three-part essay that explores the way in which rock musicians are using their music as a way of working through religious trauma. Through the exploration of the connection of Religious Trauma Syndrome to PTSD, the idea…

““God, Sometimes You Don’t Come Through”: The Presentation of Religious Trauma Syndrome Through Rock Music – Part II” by Maggie Parker

Jun 2, 2020Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Healthcare, June 2020, Parker, Maggie

“Audience enjoying a concert” by Yvette de Wit / Wikimedia CC0 This is the second installment of a three-part essay that explores the way in which rock musicians are using their music as a way of working through religious trauma. Through the exploration of the connection of Religious Trauma Syndrome to PTSD, the idea is that…

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