Articles
Institutional Religious Freedom Under Executive Power
A recent forum convened by the Brookings Institution and Wake Forest University School of Divinity brought together legal scholars and public leaders to examine how the Trump administration has approached […]
Institutional Religious Freedom in 2025 and the Work Ahead
In 2025, across the courts, Congress, and federal agencies, questions of institutional religious freedoms, about how faith-based organizations (FBOs) participate in public life, have surfaced repeatedly. For those of us […]
When Immigration Enforcement Meets the Eucharist: Why ICE Should Carefully Accommodate Religious Exercise by Institutions and Persons
On November 1, outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility near Chicago, Catholic Auxiliary Bishop José María García-Maldonado and eight other faith leaders attempted to celebrate Mass and […]
When Public Partnerships Falter: How Faith Communities Sustain Their Sacred Work
Throughout this past year, something far more consequential than a funding crisis has taken shape across faith-based civil society. Public partnerships that once allowed churches, synagogues, mosques, and faith-rooted nonprofits […]
The Table Where Hope Takes a Seat
Few expect the answer to fractured nations and polarized communities to begin with a quiet table and a handful of unlikely partners. Yet again and again, that is where hope […]