Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 6 November 2017
Citizenship applicant challenges "So help me God" in naturalization oath
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not bar school administrator's contract claim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gay rebels: why some older homosexual men don’t support same-sex marriage
(Peter Robinson, The Conversation)
Transgender women criticise reform
(Lucy Bannerman, The Times)
Here's my thought for the day: stop sneering and keep the faith, BBC
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Giles Fraser turns up the heat under the familiar debates about BBC and religious faith
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Searching for spirituality in the U.S.: A new look at the spiritual but not religious
(Art Raney, Daniel Cox, Ph.D., Robert P. Jones, Ph.D, PRRI)
Supreme Court ruling clears way for Jumbo ski resort on sacred Indigenous land in B.C.
(Brian Platt, Calgary Herald)
Can anyone stop the tragedy in Myanmar - before it's too late?
(Ben Pauker, Foreign Policy)
In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they’re waging a holy war
(Robert Muggah, The Conversation)
How Nike’s hijab sports gear is taking on Islamophobia and patriarchy
(Nuraan Davids, The Conversation)
'It's Our Right': Christian congregation in Indonesia fights to worship in its church
(Matthew Ozug, NPR)
NPR gets it right about how bad things are for non-Muslims in Indonesia
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Indonesia's youth share thoughts on religion, identity and dreams
(Ari Shapiro, NPR)
Taking back 'Allahu Akbar'
(Scott Simon, NPR)
Advocacy for Christians returning to Northern Iraq
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
Traditional meets modern in Israel's ultra-Orthodox art
(Mordechai Goldman, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
The week in Christian history: Dante exiled, pastor murdered, Martin Luther's birthday
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Millennials and the church, part 1: Should we write them off and wait for the next generation?
(Danita Bye, The Christian Post)
Twitter ding-dong as cathedrals battle to be crowned champions on social media
(Martin Belam, The Guardian)
SingleMuslim.com: how the Yorkshire dating site transformed Muslim romance
(Tim Adams, The Guardian)
'I miss them so much': Myanmar's lost Rohingya children plead for their parents
(Poppy McPherson, The Guardian)
Why are we creating educational ghettoes in 2017?
(Letters, The Guardian)
Glastonbury Dragons' Samhain Wild Hunt festival – in pictures
(Matt Cardy/Getty Images, The Guardian)
The war against Pope Francis – podcast
(Andrew Brown, read by Andrew McGregor and produced by Simon Barnard, The Guardian)
Will a Mars colony need religion for survival? Scientist says yes
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Using prayer to defeat North Korea?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Uproar over church hymn changed as to not offend people
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Top Israeli newspaper agrees: Biblical creation stories are just fables
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Why we banned Jonathan Martin from Liberty University
(Jerry Falwell Jr., Religion News Service)
Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University
(Jonathan Martin, Religion News Service)
Polygamous group slowly loses influence in longtime hometown
(Brady McCombs, Religion News Service)
#SeinfeldTaughtMe - about Judaism
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Trump’s neo-Puritan theology of us and them
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
26 killed in church attack in Texas’ deadliest mass shooting
(Jim Vertuno, Religion News Service)
The worst mass shooting at church in US history
(Jim Denison, The Christian Post)
Texas town revolves around church where shooting occurred
(Jim Vertuno, Nomaan Merchant, and Diana Heidgerd, Religion News Service)
Atheists confronted possibility Texas shooter was one of their own
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Gov. Abbott suggests connection between gunman, Texas church
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Remembering and forgetting about Christianity and freedom on Luther’s anniversary (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(Elizabeth Prodromou, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
CofE policy: investing in extractive industries
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 5th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Stand (essay on the Reformation)
(The Economist)
How Martin Luther changed the world
(Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)
Martin Luther and Ethiopian Christianity: Historical traces
(David D. Daniels, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
500 years after the Reformation, 5 facts about Protestants around the world
(Neha Sahgal, Pew Research Center Fact tank)
University student dismissed for expressing Biblical view on homosexuality
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Saturday, 4 November 2017
Street prayer in Clichy : Radical Islam v. moderate Islam
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
A terrorist's brother—and France—on trial
(Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic)
Unholy row after calls for end to prayers at Northern Ireland council's meetings
(Mark Edwards, Belfast Telegraph)
Muslims in N.J. city fear another backlash after latest attack
(Wayne Parry, The Philadelphia Tribune)
Atheist sues government for having “So help me God” in citizenship oath
(Hemant Mehta, Friendly Atheist)
Mutharika attends Ijtima festival for Malawi Muslims: Call for continued religious co-existence
(Sylvester Kumwenda -Mana, Nyasa Times)
Steps to a secular India
(Dhruv Gaur, Brown Political Review)
Iraqi Shiite militia will fight Islamic State in Syria border town
(Reuters)
House panel advances bill sparked by JCC threats
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Islamization or fairy tale? 'Ali Baba' playground in Berlin stirs controversy
(Chase Winter, Deutsche Welle)
'Defend divinely inspired freedoms,' says LDS apostle in Los Angeles symposium
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News Faith)
First Nation Canadians, sacred sites and judicial review: Ktunaxa
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Friday, 3 November 2017
House GOP tax overhaul plan would allow churches to endorse political candidates
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Canada's Supreme Court rejects aboriginal tribe's religious objection to ski resort
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Presence of Indigenous sacred sites doesn’t bar ski development, SCC rules
(The Lawyer's Daily)
Cross demolition campaign in China
(China Aid)
Muslim father 'ordered' by judge not to impose Islam on his children
(Samuel Osborne, The Independent)
Italian court rules its 'okay for Rastafarians to smoke marijuana when meditating'
(Harriet Agerholm, The Independent)
How states can wield ‘official Islam’ to limit radical extremism
(Michael Robbins and Lawrence Rubin, The Washington Post)
A senator's defense of the free exercise of religion
(The Oklahoman)
Many Central and Eastern Europeans see link between religion and national identity
(Katayoun Kishi and Kelsey Jo Starr, Pew Research Center)
Iowa City Police chaplain program contested by national, local secular groups
(Mike Kuhlenbeck, Little Village)
Poll: 68% of Israeli Jews want Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
(Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post)
Bomb threat cancels Balfour Declaration event at Florida Jewish museum
(The Jerusalem Post)
On All Souls' Day Pope Francis warns warmongers that the only fruit of war is death
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Kazakhstan: UN call for prisoner of conscience's release
(Forum 18 News Service)
As Australians vote on same-sex marriage, concerns for religious liberty loom
(Tyler Arnold, National Review)
Religious extremism by any other name
(Mona Charen, National Review)
Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Georgetown students’ commission votes not to sanction pro-marriage group
(Carl Bunderson, Catholic News Agency)
Court asked to reconsider ruling on Peace Cross war memorial
(Denise Lavoie, Associated Press)
English Catholic, Anglican leaders: Palestinian homeland needed for justice
(Simon Caldwell, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
For the first time Christian evangelicals met with Egypt's president
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Planned Parenthood called out for saying black women are better off getting abortions
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Science tells moms to prioritize motherhood in the first three years
(Leah Hickman, Christian Headlines)
Preparing for IDOP: Learning the stories of the persecuted Church
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Validity of Kenya’s election in question
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
Zoroastrian takes center stage on Iran’s political scene
(Saeid Jafari, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Egyptians highlight human rights abuses as government campaign backfires
(Shahira Amin, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Pakistan court backs first wife in landmark polygamy case
(Deutsche Welle)
Pakistan court fines and jails husband for polygamous marriage without wife's consent
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pakistan fulfills promise to recognize Christian marriages
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Assisted dying debate: MP says his religion shouldn't come before his electorate
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)
'Exvangelicals': why more religious people are rejecting the evangelical label
(Josiah Hesse, The Guardian)
New tax bill would allow "529 Plans" for parochial school tuition
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Republican tax bill would end Johnson Amendment ban on partisan sermons
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Republican tax plan would let churches enter political fray
(Ginger Gibson, Reuters)
No, getting rid of the Johnson Amendment is not part of the GOP tax bill
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
BJC: Tax bill includes provision gutting IRS protections for houses of worship
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Churches are usually reluctant to push tax reform. But Catholic bishops are trying.
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Are the Amish right about new technology?
(Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian)
Nineveh Christians still talk of emigration, despite Iraqi-Kurd peace agreement
(World Watch Monitor)
Egypt church reopened after 22 years seen by some as gesture to US
(World Watch Monitor)
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