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Legal Spirits 051: The Biden Administration’s Guidance on Prayer in Public Schools
May 24, 2023

In this episode, Marc and Mark offer some thoughts about the Biden Administration Department of Educations guidance issued earlier this month (the first since 2020) on prayer and religious expression

Legal Spirits 050: Groff v. DeJoy and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace
April 28, 2023

In this episode, Marc and Mark discuss the background and recent oral argument before the Supreme Court in Groff v. DeJoy, a case about religious accommodation in the workplace under Title VII. The ca

Legal Spirits 049: A Canticle for Leibowitz & After Virtue
April 18, 2023

In this podcast, Marc and Mark discuss some of the common themes in two books that we recently read and reflected on with our students in the Centers Reading Society: Walter M. Miller, Jr.s A Cantic

Legal Spirits 048: The Rise of the Nones and American Law
April 04, 2023

Last month, the Center co-sponsored a panel, The Rise of the Nones and American Law, featuring Professors Steven Collis (University of Texas), Mark Movsesian (St. Johns) and Gregory Sisk (Universit

Legal Spirits Episode 047: “Christianity and Constitutionalism”
January 17, 2023

For our first podcast of 2023, we are delighted to welcome Professor Nicholas Aroney of the University of Queensland Law School, a distinguished constitutional law scholar who has co-edited (with Prof

Legal Spirits Episode 046: Sunday Closing Laws and New Year’s Eve
December 20, 2022

Last month, a federal court ruled that New York could constitutionally restrict the sale of alcohol when New Years falls on a Sunday, as it will this year. In our final podcast of 2022, we discuss th

Legal Spirits Episode 045: 303 Creative at SCOTUS Next Week
December 01, 2022

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear argument in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, an important case that pits free speech rights against anti-discrimination laws. A Christian web designer has challenged

Legal Spirits Episode 044: Traditionalism Rising
October 10, 2022

In this episode, Mark interviews Marc about his new article, Traditionalism Rising, on an important, emerging method of constitutional interpretation embraced by the Supreme Court across the domains

Legal Spirits Episode 043: The New Thoreaus
September 07, 2022

In this episode, Marc interviews Mark about his new article, The New Thoreaus, on the rise of the Nones and its impact on free-exercise law. Fifty years ago, in Wisconsin v. Yoder, the Supreme Court

Legal Spirits Episode 042: Two Blockbuster Decisions at SCOTUS
June 29, 2022

The October 2021 term has ended with a bang. In this episode, we discuss the Courts rulings in two significant church-and-state cases: Carson v. Makin, the Maine school funding case, and Kennedy v. B