Even before the First Amendment was ratified, Douglas Laycock said practicing religious freedom has never been a piece of cake. At 2 p.m. Monday, August 6, in
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In the contested Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a Colorado baker argued that his right to religious freedom permitted him
In the sixth edition of the Interfaith Friday Series, August 3, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, vice president of religion, moderated a number of
Douglas Laycock first began studying religious liberty as an academic during the Reagan Era, a time when religious freedom was a divisive and prominent issue. “I
A number of years ago, Rabbi Daniel Cohen met with Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, and posed an idea: What if Americans
For 18 years, Rabbi Asher Lopatin served as senior rabbi of Anshe Sholom Congregation, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago. This position, he said, gave
As a former combat officer on a U.S. Navy destroyer, Lutheran chaplain at Cornell University, co-creator of the Leadership Institute of Seattle Graduate Program, therapist,
Rabbi Daniel Cohen came to understand the fragile nature of life when he lost his mother to a brain aneurysm when she was just 44
Due to rapid advancements in technology, Maggie Jackson knows the art of asking for directions is dying. However, she still believes it is worth asking
As a young boy raised in a church parsonage, the Rev. John Scherer still remembers watching his grandfather, the pastor, tend to the spiritual needs
Joan Chittister believes every major institution in American society, including marriage, family, government, education, work and church, is in a “state of turmoil, breakdown, division
Although technology has increased productivity and sped up communication, author Maggie Jackson believes this advancement has replaced the desire to engage. “At the time we
Joan Chittister, OSB, a Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania, has spent the past 40 years advocating for worldwide peace and women’s rights. As co-chair of
In the fifth edition, July 27, of the Interfaith Friday Series, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, vice president of religion, moderated a number of
Corey D. B. Walker discusses the ethics of dissent in his lecture "Is America Possible?: An Ethics of Dissent in an Empire of Dissent" on
As assistant professor of religion at Trinity University and a 2018 Interfaith Leadership Institute keynote speaker, Simran Singh connects with America’s youth, both as an