First Amendment

Remembering Five Years Ago: COVID Closure of Churches

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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as an entry in a multi-part series hosted by the New Civil Liberties Alliance reflecting on “how bad bureaucratic decisions made COVID-19 worse.” The piece is reprinted at Anchoring Truths with permission. Forced closure of houses of worship during the Covid pandemic demonstrated how far-reaching administrative edicts could be.

America’s Culture of Religious Freedom with Mark David Hall

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Prof. Mark David Hall, JWI Affiliated Scholar and Professor at George Fox University, joins host Garrett Snedeker for a discussion of Mark’s new book Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans. The two discuss the vital place of religious liberty in American culture, both historically and

And All the Students Said, “Amen”

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By offering a voluntary prayer, the government introduces its students to religion in a way that is not coercive or intrusive. It is, rather, a traditional acknowledgement of religion, even if it simply constitutes a recognition of the theistic origins of our unalienable rights.

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