God on Trial

It is not uncommon for people to shake their fists at God in the midst of tragedy and suffering. The Bible includes the stories of righteous men who questioned ...

Shoplifters Ordered to Wear Embarrassing Signs

The Scarlet Letter is alive and well in Attalla, Alabama. A judge ordered two shoplifters to stand at a Wal-Mart entrance for eight hours, wearing signs ...

Man Sues God and Loses

Donald Drusky took God to court. The one-time employee of USX Corporation blamed God for failing to rectify the wrong done to him when he was fired in ...

Dershowitz Points to Perjury

"On the basis of my academic and professional experience, I believe that no felony is committed more frequently in this country than [crimes within] ...

The Guts to Lead

Scott Turow begins his novel Presumed Innocent with the words of a prosecuting attorney named Rusty. Rusty is explaining his approach to the jury when ...

The Honest Lawyer

Recently, I was walking the streets in San Mateo, a small town on the San Francisco peninsula. I met an attorney I knew from a local evangelical church. ...

Freedom from Religion

Edwin Gaustad, professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, asserted in 1985:

Some recent discussion has suggested that the founding ...