A March 2014 backgrounder by the Pew Research Center explains the issues at stake in the contraception cases and the likely implications of whatever the justices ultimately decide.  

Read a Dec. 24, 2013, column in Tablet Magazine, a Jewish publication, that says aligning with efforts to overturn the contraception mandate would be “a short-sighted strategic mistake,” even for conservative Jews who might agree with those challenging the mandate.

Read a July 15, 2013, column written for Religion News Service by C. Welton Gaddy and Barry Lynn, in which they say that America’s “freedoms are being undercut by forces seeking to infuse the military with a very specific version of Christian culture.”

Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein is founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a New Mexico-based organization that says the wall separating church and state has been seriously breached in the U.S. military. Weinstein, a former military attorney who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy, is co-author of With God on Our Side: […]

Daniel Mach is director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s program on freedom of religion and belief.

According to a June 13, 2012, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute, Americans are split pretty evenly on the question of whether religious liberty is under attack in America. Interesting dichotomies were reported for Catholics, though, with just 44 percent telling PRRI that religious freedoms are being threatened — but 53 percent of […]

Read an Aug. 23, 2012, column in The Wall Street Journal about the debt problem for seminary students and what congregations and schools can do differently to address it. Russell D. Moore, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is the author.