Our friends at the Australian Journal of Law and Religion have announced a call for papers for their 2024 General Issue, which will include a symposium on the rise of the Nones.
Details in the link below: [...]
Our friends at the Australian Journal of Law and Religion have announced a call for papers for their 2024 General Issue, which will include a symposium on the rise of the Nones.
Details in the link below: [...]
It’s been another productive academic year at the Mattone Center. The most important news, of course, is the transformational, multimillion dollar gift from Denise and Michael
Mattone, for whom the Center is now named. We have also been busy with podcasts, blog posts, public events, faculty appearances, and writing. [...]
At Law & Liberty today, I review Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin’s new book on tradition in constitutional law, Memory and Authority. Balkin makes some good points. He correctly
describes how lawyers and judges use tradition in practice, and is right that the appeal of tradition–which is often multifarious and contested–depends on whether [...]
Today, Orthodox and Oriental Christians are celebrating Easter Sunday. Primates Meeting, Rome The Anglican Communion has posted a Communiqué following the Primates’ Meeting
2024 in Rome between April 26 and May 3, hosted by the Anglican Centre in Rome. Primates considered a draft paper of the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, [...]
The classical school movement, especially the Christian classical school movement, is proving to be a great success. This has given rise to a debate in the Jewish community
as to whether it should be emulated. Should there be Jewish classical schools? A Jewish friend did me the honor of asking for my opinion. [...]
On this day, in 1606, Henry Garnet, S.J. was hanged by St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The crowd reportedly pulled on his legs, during the hanging, so that he would die
before the usual disemboweling.) He was a student of Robert Bellarmine and had been, for some time, the head of the Jesuit mission in England, and he was executed [...]
On this day, in 1606, Henry Garnet, S.J. was hanged by St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The crowd reportedly pulled on his legs, during the hanging, so that he would die
before the usual disemboweling.) He was a student of Robert Bellarmine and had been, for some time, the head of the Jesuit mission in England, and he was executed [...]
Introduction In JR87, Application for Judicial Review [2024] NICA 34, the applicants argued that the mandatory Christian religious education (“RE”) and collective worship
(“CW”) in controlled primary schools in Northern Ireland was contrary to the religious freedom provisions of the ECHR. [...]
Since 2017, church pipe organs have featured in fewer than 2% of the total number of consistory court judgments reviewed in L&RUK[*], many of which have considered their replacement
by digital or hybrid instruments. The circumstances of the recent judgment, Re St. [...]
Regular readers of the Forum know of our interest in Tocqueville, the French visitor whose nineteenth-century observations about religion the United States in the nineteenth
century remain relevant today. So we were very interested to see a forthcoming collection of essays to be released by Routledge this summer, and edited by two friends [...]