We join many others in the Law & Religion community today in mourning Al McDonald’s death. In 1989, Mr. McDonald and his wife Suzie founded the McDonald Agape Foundation
which works with a select group of universities and scholars who represent models of spiritual knowledge and deep faith. Read more about the good work that Al and [...]
“Festival Churches” In our post Churches, Minsters and Cathedrals, we considered the legal distinction between these designations of places of worship[ within the Church
of England; this included a short review of the terms “greater/major church” and “festival church”. [...]
I’m delighted to notice this new church-state reader put together by John F. Wilson and my friend, Donald L. Drakeman, Church and State in American History: Key Documents,
Decisions, and Commentary from Five Centuries (4th edition, Routledge). Don kindly informs me that what is new about this edition of the reader is a greatly expanded [...]
I’m delighted to notice this new church-state reader put together by John F. Wilson (Princeton, emeritus) and our longtime friend and center board member, Donald L. Drakeman,
Church and State in American History: Key Documents, Decisions, and Commentary from Five Centuries (4th edition, Routledge). [...]
Your oven-ready roundup of stuff that didn’t quite merit a free-standing post… Opposite-sex civil partnership On Monday, it became possible for opposite-sex couples in
England and Wales to choose to enter into a civil partnership rather than getting married. [...]
Today the federal "Fairness for All" bill was introduced; it aims to give significant protection to both LGBT nondiscrimination rights and traditional believers' religious-freedom
rights. Full information about the bill here. It is already being attacked from both sides of the ongoing, polarizing culture war for which this issue provides [...]
For many (Ed.: Many!) years, we at MOJ have highlighted the importance for law and legal theory of attention to philosophical and moral anthropology -- that is, to an understanding
of what human persons really are and are for. It's about five years old now, but my friend and colleague Christian Smith's The Sacred Project of American Sociology [...]
Meaningful school choice is endorsed clearly in the Church's social teachings. And, it enjoys strong public support, according to a new poll. Particularly striking is the
fact that large numbers of Democratic voters -- indeed, pretty much the same numbers as on the Republican side -- express support for school choice. And yet, it [...]
Background In Tagiyev and Huseynov v Azerbaijan [2019] ECHR 875, Rafig Nazir oglu Tagiyev, now dead, was a well-known writer and columnist in Azerbaijan. Samir Sadagat oglu
Huseynov used to be the editor-in-chief of Sanat Gazeti. They were convicted for publishing an article in November 2006 in Sanat Gazeti as part of a series written [...]
On 5 December 2019, Thirtyone:eight announced that it had been commissioned by Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon to undertake an independent lessons learnt review concerning Jonathan
Fletcher and Emmanuel Church. The Press Notice is reproduced below. [...]
