Judge Rules Louisiana Shalt Not Require Schools To Post Ten Commandments

(ANALYSIS) Do the Ten Commandments have a valid place in U.S. classrooms? Louisiana’s Legislature and governor insist the answer is “yes.” But on Nov. 12, 2024, a federal judge said “no.”

Another Big Supreme Court Case: State Aid For Students Attending Religious Schools

(OPINION) Media eyes are trained on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dec. 1 argument on Mississippi's abortion restrictions, preceded by a fast-tracked Nov. 1 hearing about the stricter law in Texas. But don't neglect the Court's Dec. 8 hearing and subsequent decision on tax funding of religious schools in the potentially weighty Carson v. Makin case.

Richard Ostling, OpinionRichard OstlingNovember 9, 2021baptists, catholicism, Church and State, education, lawsuits, mormons, Religious libertyComment

Press Eagerly Watches Evangelicals Fracture As Elites Argue Over Politics

(OPINION) The Guy suggests that something far deeper than just a chatter-fest among self-appointed Twitter leaders is occurring in the Trump Era, which continues, to some degree — something that has the potential to wound or reshape what has been the largest and most dynamic segment of American religion: evangelical Protestants.

Opinion, North AmericaRichard OstlingOctober 28, 2021politics, baptists, Church and State, Evangelicals, Richard OstlingComment

Crucial Question In All Those Newsworthy Abortion Debates: When Does Life Begin?

(OPINION) When does life begin? The religion guy’s answer: Those four words are regularly posed in the current abortion debate, so let's scan the lines in pregnancy that have been drawn by experts — religious and secular — in the past.