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“Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, The Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom’ by Spencer W. McBride” by Peter Wosnik

Dec 5, 2022Canopy ForumConviction, Literature HighlightsChristianity, December 2022, History, Religious Freedom, Social Sciences, Wosnik, Peter

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “REVIEW: Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, The Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom by Spencer W. McBride” Peter Wosnik Now a world-wide faith with over 16 million adherents, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (popularly known as Mormonism) began as a small, radical…

Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism by Nicholas Pruitt

Nov 30, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, History, November 2022, Politics, Pruitt, Nicholas, Religious Freedom

Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism Nicholas Pruitt The following is a modified excerpt from Nicholas Pruitt’s Open Hearts, Closed Doors (2021), used with permission from New York University Press. At the outset of the twentieth century, white Protestants still held a tight grasp on the cultural and social resources…

The Potential Religious Context of The Fourth Amendment by Peter Wosnik

Nov 14, 2022Canopy ForumConvictionChristianity, Constitutional Law, History, November 2022, Wosnik, Peter

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “The Potential Religious Context of The Fourth Amendment” Peter Wosnik James Madison first introduced the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to Congress in 1789. Since that time, the Fourth Amendment has become a bedrock in criminal procedure in American constitutional law. Thousands of state and federal cases…

“Ordinary Affects of U.S. Empire” by Candace Lukasik

Nov 11, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, History, Lukasik, Candace, November 2022, Politics

Religion and US Empire: Critical New Historiesedited by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester Johnson “Ordinary Affects of U.S. Empire”, A review by Candace Lukasik “American imperialist culture has seeped into Egyptian blood.” – Kirollos We sat on the back patio, eating watermelon in the heat of the sun on a chilly March day in 2021. Kirollos…

“Bring Back Meatless Fridays” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Nov 9, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, Media and Culture, November 2022

Picture by Jez Timms on Unsplash. Meatless Fridays were once one of the most visible markers of Catholic identity. For most of the American faithful, they are now observed only in the special liturgical season of Lent. US bishops should impose it as a weekly matter once again. The pastoral hopes that caused them to…

“The Southern Baptist Convention Cases and the Limited Option for Holding Religious Institutions Accountable for Clergy Sex Abuse” by Carolyn M. Warner

Nov 7, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, History, November 2022, Warner, Carolyn

Southern Baptist Church by Warren LeMay (CC0 1.0) In May of 2022, the news broke that the US Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had released an independent report investigating the SBC’s handling of sexual harassment and assault by clergy and other employees of SBC-affiliated churches. The report described an institution that prioritized avoiding liability, was callous…

“Pushing States to Attach Regulatory Strings to Vouchers” by James G. Dwyer

Nov 4, 2022Canopy ForumSeriesChristianity, Dwyer, James, Education, November 2022, Religious Freedom, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

This article is part of our “Kennedy, Carson, and Dobbs: Law and Religion in Pressing Supreme Court Cases” series. If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. In its Carson v. Makin decision, the Supreme Court held that the State of Maine violated the Free Exercise rights of parents who wished…

“Natural Rights and the First Amendment Religion Clauses” by Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Oct 28, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Muñoz, Vincent Phillip, October 2022, Politics, Religious Freedom, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Natural Rights and the First Amendment Religion ClausesVincent Phillip Muñoz The following is a modified excerpt from Vincent Phillip Muñoz’s 2022 book Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses, available now from University of Chicago Press. It is now no more that toleration is…

“Has Religion Been Fueling the Politics of Conflict in Ethiopia? A Cautionary Tale” by Jon Abbink

Oct 26, 2022Canopy ForumEssaysAbbink, Jon, Africa (Geography), Christianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, October 2022, Politics

body of water under cloudy sky during sunset by Storiès on Unsplash. Conflict and Religion Is religion a conflict dimension in today’s Ethiopia? Does it have an impact on the ongoing armed confrontations in the country? Some observers think so, but I disagree. Ethiopia, the second-most populated country in Africa, with approximately 112 million people,…

“Religion: Relevant to Public Policy but Shielded from Critical Discussion?” by David A. Hollinger

Oct 21, 2022Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Hollinger, David A., October 2022, Politics

Religion: Relevant to Public Policy but Shielded from Critical Discussion?David A. Hollinger This essay draws on my new book, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Princeton University Press, 2022). The United States today confronts a remarkable paradox: an increasingly secular society is saddled with an increasingly religious politics. In…