Search for: "EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA" Results 1 - 20 of 97
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
16 Oct 2008, 7:07 am
Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America, (Phil. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The Great Awakening altered “the evangelical tradition from a collection of beleaguered congregations into a formidable force of Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and other free church communities. [read post]
14 May 2020, 6:56 am by Mark Movsesian
As the heirs of the free-church tradition, they typically are independent congregations that can decide for themselves how to respond to government action. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 8:37 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
  That case, from the early 1970s, pitted the evangelical preacher against America's iconoclastic pornographer.In order to be truly free, the content of our speech simply cannot be regulated by government. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 7:08 am by Eugene Volokh
The case that holds that religious institutions—both churches and other institutions, such as schools—have a First Amendment right to discriminate in choice of leaders (and others, such as teachers, who are closely involved in propagating religious beliefs) is Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. [read post]
27 Jan 2019, 10:02 am by Dan
The choice of all has been as free as the choice of those who answered the call to worship moved only by the music of the old Sunday morning church bells. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 8:13 am by Marci Hamilton
Instead, it has been a factor in the big-picture Religion Clauses decision on the ministerial exception in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 7:40 pm by Kelly
Of course, you’ll be pleased to note that all of these messages are being spread about tax free. [read post]
21 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
A church wanted to expand according to its own lights without having to abide by the preservation rules. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 8:09 am
I recently read Joseph Bottum’s marvelous book, “An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 5:00 am by Eric Segall
The GOP became...a radicalized combination of convenience between anti-government, free-market true believers and racially anxious activists and voters.Homer-Dixon does not include the Court's same-sex marriage decisions and abortion cases in his analysis but the Justices quite obviously fanned the flames of discontent among far-right evangelicals, a major voting bloc. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Not a mega-church by any means, but also not a small parish. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 10:03 am
Most importantly though -- and this is the heart of the post -- if the Free Speech Clause gives CEF rights co-extensive with the statutory rights of the aforementioned "patriotic" organizations, then one of the big unresolved issues in church/state law is now resolved. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 10:55 pm
Neuhaus were The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America (1997); Appointment in Rome: The Church in America Awakening (1998); and Doing Well & Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist (1992). [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The selection of Pope Francis, therefore, is hardly free from the sex-abuse scandal. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
We are safer for it.Starting with the Moral Majority appearing in 1979 and flourishing until the end of the 1980s, and the rise of the evangelical Christians as a political force on the right, there have been increasing calls for treating the Establishment Clause as redundant of the Free Exercise Clause. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief. [read post]