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““[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten:” Banning Communal Worship Poses Continuing Threats to Religious Freedom” by Charles J. Russo

Apr 2, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysApril 2021, Christianity, Healthcare, Religious Freedom, Russo, Charles J., US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Image by Romy from Pixabay. This article is part of our “Law and Religion Under Pressure: A One-Year Pandemic Retrospective” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. “Even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.” — Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct.…

“Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim Perspectives” by Mona Siddiqui

Mar 19, 2021Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsChristianity, Ethics, Islam, March 2021, Mona, Philosophy, Religious Law and Legal Systems, Siddiqui

Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim PerspectivesMona Siddiqui In this section from chapter two of Human Struggle: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, Professor Siddiqui compares how Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Rainer Maria Rilke wrote ‘letters’ to a younger student in which both men express their intellectual restlessness and search for faith, meaning and salvation. Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali…

“The Reckoning of Religious Studies and Colonialism” by Laura Ammon

Mar 19, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysAmmon, Laura, Christianity, History, Human Rights / Civil Rights, March 2021

Photo by rolf neumann on Unsplash. The study of religion has a long history of service to Western imperial ambitions. Recent decades have seen religious scholars wrestle with the implications of this colonial legacy for the future of the field. This essay, divided into two parts, will explore the connections between religion and colonialism. First,…

“A Votive Candle in the Tiny Chapel in the Middle of Our Nation” by Marguerite Spencer

Mar 16, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, History, Human Rights / Civil Rights, March 2021, Politics, Spencer, Marguerite

US Center Chapel, located at the Geographic Center of the Lower 48 States in Lebanon, Kansas. From Jimmy Emerson, DVM (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). During the Super Bowl, Jeep ran an ad that featured singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen in a chapel. Not at a political rally, not at a demonstration, but in a tiny chapel in the…

“The Chorister’s Tale: Religious Freedom Analogies in the COVID Pandemic” by M. Christian Green

Mar 10, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Green, M. Christian, Healthcare, March 2021, Religious Freedom

Photo by David Beale on Unsplash. No one has heard a peep from this chorister in nearly a year. Trained in law, religion, and the law of religious freedom, there was a time early in the pandemic when I wondered whether the social distancing mandates being adopted by state and, in some cases, municipal governments…

“Religious Freedom Cases During the Pandemic: Round II” by Michael J. Broyde

Mar 10, 2021Canopy ForumEssaysBroyde, Michael J., Christianity, Healthcare, March 2021, Religious Freedom, US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Photo by Trnava University on Unsplash. Three weeks ago, in the case of South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, the United States Supreme Court stayed the enforcement of California’s occupancy limits on worship services during the pandemic. At some level, there is nothing new here, as the Court had done the same in a…

““A Noble Alchemy”: Benefit of Clergy and the Early History of Leniency” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Mar 8, 2021Canopy ForumConvictionCavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, Europe (Geography), History, March 2021

Image adapted from Wikicommons by DhLeaks44 / CC BY-SA 4.0 “‘A Noble Alchemy’: Benefit of Clergy and the Early History of Leniency” Matthew P. Cavedon Criminal justice reform efforts have recently focused on the consequences of having a record. There is a growing sense that society needs to show mercy to those who pay the consequences for doing…

“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…