Reclaiming Religious Freedom—A Liberal Responsibility | Opinion
On June 17, the International Religious Freedom Summit was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, 200 Christian IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) were massacred in Nigeria. Terrorist groups like Al‑Shabab frequently also target Christians in Kenya. Dr. Gloria Samdi-Puldu, president of the Nigerian-based LEAH Foundation, supports girls and women like Leah Sharibu, kidnapped by the extremist group […]
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US Black Hawk Pilot Says He Has Religious Right to Sell LSD
A helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army has argued that he has the religious right to sell LSD on the dark web. Black Hawk pilot Kyle Norton Riester claimed in a civil lawsuit that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 allowed him to sell and take the hallucinogenic drug because his “sacramental use” of […]
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The Great Black Church Schism—How Black Americans’ Becoming Less Religious Will Impact Future Elections | Opinion
In recent years, research has consistently shown Black Americans becoming less religious. In a 2023 Pew poll, 72 percent of Black people identified as Christian, with 24 percent identifying as religiously unaffiliated. Just a decade earlier in 2013, 79 percent identified as Christian and 16 percent identified as religiously unaffiliated. For political epidemiologists like myself […]
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