Articles Tagged Religious Freedom - ULC Blog

Religion plays a big part in the daily lives of billions of people around the world. Still, most people are only familiar with the teachings and traditions of the religions they belong to. Understanding how other religio ...

Category: Religion

A recent study from the Pew Research Center reported that a little more than a third of all parents surveyed want their children to grow up to follow the same religion they do. While answers to the question of whether it ...

Category: Freedom of Religion

Church leaders who want to create open, welcoming spaces for LGBTQIA+ people often grapple with the specific ways they should go about doing so. While their intentions are noble, many of them still fall short of includin ...

Category: Morality Social Equality

Over the past several weeks, tensions have been heated in the United States over issues of diversity, inclusivity, and cross-cultural respect. While a lot of focus has understandably been centered around the Black Lives ...

Category: Religion

Despite the efforts made by Tennessee officials, the ULCM remains committed to defending the Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms of their ministers in Tennessee and elsewhere. Read the latest on our legal battle here.  

Category: Universal Life Church Weddings

Two very interesting cases have been in the process of going through the Supreme Court in recent months. Both of them involve big questions about the intersection of religious and legal rights, and the outcomes may chang ...

Category: Freedom of Religion Politics Freedom from Religion

One interesting result of novel coronavirus outbreaks in the United States is that some churches have taken the prohibition against gathering to court, claiming that being denied the right to gather is an infringement of ...

Category: Equal Rights Freedom Freedom of Religion Politics

For some religious couples, when you first got married, you may have imagined a life in which you and your spouse lived by and spread the word of God. That may have been just what you got, too, in the early days. Recentl ...

Category: Religion Spirituality

A Pew Research study found that 49% of Americans believe that the Christian Bible should have at least some impact on American laws and over a quarter believe it should have "a great deal" of influence.

Category: Politics Religion

In 1802, Thomas Jefferson created the phrase “separation of church and state” in a letter addressed to Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut. Though the first amendment does not use this phrase, Mr. Jefferson em ...

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