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First Links — 7.01.14
Opinion: Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Opinion Analysis: Does…
Podcast on Hobby Lobby
For those who are interested, our latest podcast at the Center for Law and Religion Forum discusses yesterday’s…
What Hobby Lobby Means
Yesterday, on its final day of the 2013-14 term, the Supreme Court of the United States handed…
Flopping Is Good For Soccer
A penalty in stoppage time decided Sunday’s World-Cup game between Mexico and the Netherlands. Mexico’s Rafa Marquez…
FIRST LINKS — 6.30.14
A century later, why does Chaplin still matter? Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club Faking Galileo Massimo Mazzotti, Los…
A Pretty Narrow Decision
That’s my first read on today’s opinion in the Hobby Lobby case: narrow and pretty much as…
New Vatican Document Issued on the Synod on the Family
The Vatican’s upcoming meeting on family life has spurred broad speculation about a new openness to divorced…
Skepticism about International Religious Freedom
A little more on last week’s conference, “International Religious Freedom and the Global Clash of Values,” which…
FIRST LINKS — 6.27.14
Gifts of $300 to Homeless Are Reduced to a Lunch Kirk Semple, The New York Times Lost…
Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
On a recent visit to my sister’s house, I asked my two-year-old niece if she wanted to…
FIRST LINKS — 6.26.14
I went undercover to find out why people do CrossFit Nico Lang, The Daily Dot Grace Happens…
IRS admits guilt in a gross act of abuse of power
Perhaps the politicization of the IRS was inevitable. In any event, the agency is now completely out of…
FIRST LINKS — 6.25.14
My Train-Hopping Odyssey Through the American West Ted Conover, Outside Sleazy, Bloody and Surprisingly Smart: In Defense…
Are Lutherans Catholic?
“This is the catholic faith; whoever does not believe it faithfully and firmly cannot be saved.” So…
Pope: More Christian Martyrs Today than in Church’s First Centuries
Pope Francis opened an academic conference in Rome last week with a statement on religious liberty and the…
