A Muslim GOP leader, a Catholic judge, and the American tradition of associations
The right to form associations is part of First Amendment. Yet Americans sometimes view membership in them with suspicion—as some did with Shahid Shafi and Brian Buescher.
Will mass shooting at Texas church prompt 'serious soul-searching'?
The attack may be the deadliest targeting a congregation in U.S. history.
Counterprotesters overwhelm free speech rally in Boston
The people who attended a rally at the Boston Common did not bear Nazi symbols or racist slogans. But the tens of thousands of counterprotesters saw their intention as defending hate speech.
Clash over Bear Ears land tests years of progress on Native American spirituality
(The Christian Science Monitor) Davis Filfred wishes President Trump would take a page from General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf’s pl...
Trump's refugee plan divides religious leaders
(The Christian Science Monitor) For a week after President Trump’s executive orders suspending visas and immigration to the United Sta...
New national monument in Utah and Nevada protects sacred lands
(The Christian Science Monitor) When President Obama established new national monuments in Utah and Nevada, he noted that the area is ...
In Supreme Court case, potentially big shift on religious freedom
(The Christian Science Monitor) The Unites States Supreme Court on Wednesday became the theater for a debate over religious freed...
Civil rights activist clergy see new generation rising for voting rights
(The Christian Science Monitor) Fifty years after the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act, two legends of the ci...
Why #IStandWithAhmed is about more than a Muslim boy in Texas
(The Christian Science Monitor) Less than a day after news broke that a 14-year-old Muslim boy had been arrested for having a homemade...
Boston bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev breaks silence to apologize
(The Christian Science Monitor) Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke for the first time in court on the day of his sentencing, at the end of a mont...
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