Last week’s Atlantic featured religion writer Emma Green’s five-thousand-word homage to RLUIPA: the federal statute that undercuts the neutrality of every local zoning code in the country by mandating a jaw-dropping preference for religious institutions.... Read More

Political pundits will be scouring next Tuesday’s off-year election results for clues about the national mood toward President Trump and the chances for Republicans to maintain control of Congress next year. They will do this... Read More

First the good news: the secular team just won a victory in court, declaring part of the “parsonage exemption” in the federal tax code unconstitutional. Now the bad news: the case isn’t worth the paper... Read More

As one of the taxpayers who contributes to the Smithsonian Institution’s nearly $900 million annual budget, I finally got around to visiting its new exhibit on “Religion in Early America.” I had no idea how... Read More

I like numbers. They can’t be used to explain everything, but they can be used to explain a lot. Consider the example of Catholic hospitals. It has always seemed jarring to me that the government... Read More

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and other Judiciary Committee Democrats are being pilloried by everyone from the president of Princeton to the National Review for asking questions of a witness. The questions were directed to law... Read More

Late last month, an impressive array of evangelicals calling themselves the “Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood” issued what they called the “Nashville Statement,” telling us God’s views on homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. As you might... Read More