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'No question is offensive to me, I think it’s really important to be open and honest and allow people to express themselves'

A messy mix of politics, punishment, religion and tradition result in the death penalty having a secure future in the USA.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two state lawmakers who sponsored a $1.5 million budget earmark for an Upstate Christian organization that has announced plans to build a residential school with the money claim the project has been misrepresented. They insist the nonprofit is not actually building a private educational institution, and one…

This new article of mine will be coming out next year in the Journal of Law and Religion, and I thought I'd serialize it here; there's still plenty of time for editing, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. Here's Part III (Part II is more doctrinal, so I'm skipping…

‘I know now that God was using my ego to draw me to Him. Drawing me away from worldly desires’

The percentage of Hispanics in the U.S. who identify as atheist or agnostic grew in the past 12 years.

Congress leader calls the Hindutva ideologue an atheist

If Dr. Mehmet Oz is elected to the U.S. Senate this fall, he'll be the first Muslim to serve in the chamber

An unusually detailed discussion of what factors court should consider in deciding whether a religious exemption request is sincere (generally a threshold requirement for the request to stand any chance of prevailing).

Paris has decided to make more visible its commemoration of the St Bartholomew massacre of Protestants 450 years ago on 24 August 1572, by renaming a park in the city centre.

This new article of mine will be coming out next year in the Journal of Law and Religion, and I thought I'd serialize it here; there's still plenty of time for editing, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. Here's Part I.A. [* * *] Let's begin by laying out…