Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Faith
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WaPo: Catholic Priest And Evangelical Pastor Battle For Souls In Brazil’s Deepest Amazon Rainforest
Washington Post, The Judgment of São Miguel: A Catholic Priest, an Evangelical Pastor and the Battle for Souls in the Deepest Amazon: When the rains finally receded, Father Moisés Oliveira pulled his motorboat out into the swollen Purus River and pointed it downstream. Chugging down muddy waters toward the next community on his schedule, the…
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A Rabbi Walks Into A Christian University
Inside Higher Ed, A Rabbi Walks Into a Christian University: Belmont University in Tennessee, which proudly describes itself as a “Christ-centered” institution, has diligently been building bridges with Nashville’s small Jewish community. In a further attempt to strengthen those ties, the university just hired a rabbi. “We’ve had a longtime relationship with Rabbi Schiftan through…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Mike Spivey, U.S. News Likely Will Change Methodology In Forthcoming Law School Rankings Yascha Mounk (Wall Street Journal), You Don’t Have To Be A Jerk To Succeed In Law And Life Reuters, White Student's Discrimination Case Against Howard Law School Survives Rod Smolla (President, Vermont), Vermont Law Professor Dies After Suffering Medical Event…
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Third Annual Nootbaar Fellows Workshop And Conference: Charting The Future Of Church And State
Pepperdine Caruso Law School's Nootbaar Institute For Law, Religion, and Ethics held a series of wonderful events this week: Wednesday: Religious Liberty Salon: Celebrating the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Religious Liberty Clinic Noel Francisco (Jones Day, Washington, D.C.; 47th Solicitor General of the United States Eric Rassbach (Vice President & Senior Counsel, Becket Fund…
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WSJ: Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith, by Allen C. Guelzo (Princeton; Author, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment (2024)): The First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ill., opened in 1876, but its most famous congregant never crossed the church’s threshold. Abraham Lincoln’s relationship with First Presbyterian dates to an earlier location,…
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Catholic Law Prof Blog Mirror Of Justice Celebrates Its 20-Year Anniversary
Mirror of Justice, a Catholic legal thought blog run by Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) and 21 (!) co-editors, celebrated its 20-year anniversary earlier this month. From the inaugural post: Welcome to Mirror of Justice, a group blog created by a group of Catholic law professors interested in discovering how our Catholic perspective can inform our…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2024-25 Edition) ABA Journal, ABA Gives Final Approval To Law School Free Speech Accreditation Standard ABA Journal, ABA Approves Several Accreditation Standards Changes Columbia Spectator & Washington Free Beacon, Columbia Law Student Senate Denies Approval Of Students Against Antisemitism Group; Yale Law Students Protest…
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Inazu: Spiritual Formation And Political Engagement
John Inazu (Washington University; Google Scholar), Spiritual Formation and Political Engagement: Today’s edition of Some Assembly Required is an interview with my friend Michael Wear. Michael is the founder of the Center for Christianity and Public Life. His latest book is The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life. John Inazu: Your new…
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WSJ: Lessons In Leadership From The Hebrew Bible
Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview, Lessons in Leadership From the Hebrew Bible: America’s political class isn’t at its best. Public life lately seems to consist mainly of self-generated disasters, easily preventable crises and media-driven hysteria. Political leaders behave like spoiled children, outrage the public to no purpose, and loudly champion ideas they know to be…
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Paul’s View On Death Changed Mine
Christianity Today Op-Ed: Paul’s View on Death Changed Mine, by Osvaldo Padilla (Beeson Divinity School, Samford University): There’s a Latin phrase that has become a part of the Book of Common Prayer: “Media vita in morte sumus.” In the midst of life we are in death. As I age, … more and more funerals occupy formerly…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Professor Sues University, Claims He Was Fired For Opposing DEI Washington Post, SCOTUS Law Clerk Signing Bonuses Hit $500,000 Law.com, Lawyer Employment Outlook Looks Good, But Bar Passage Rates Decline Press Release, 12 Finalists In Bloomberg's Law School Innovation Awards Inside Edition, Law Professor Surprises Entire Class…
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WaPo Op-Ed: Age Makes The Miracles Easier To See
Washington Post Op-Ed: Age Makes the Miracles Easier to See, by Anne Lamott (Author, Somehow: Thoughts on Love (2024)): Every so often, even in heartbreaking times, the soul hears something so true out of the corner of its ear that it perks up, looking around like a meerkat for the source. Mine did this when,…
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Why Young Men Are Failing To Launch—And What The Church Can Do About It
Russell Moore (Christianity Today Op-Ed), Why Young Men Are Failing to Launch: A few weeks ago, I was talking to a group of men—some atheists, some Christians, some Jews; some conservatives, some progressives, some centrists—from completely different geographical, cultural, and vocational backgrounds. They all wanted to talk about one thing: the number of young men they…
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Rethinking The ‘Danger’ Of Public Christianity
D.G. Hart (Hillsdale College), Rethinking the "Danger" of Public Christianity: In 1923, a middle-aged professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary, J. Gresham Machen, produced a book that asserted liberal Protestantism was not simply a defective version of Christianity but a different religion altogether. Talk about provocative. Was Machen trolling liberal Protestants? One hundred years…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: David Lat (Bloomberg Law), Pro Bono Supreme Court Amicus Briefs Provide Additional Evidence That BigLaw Skews Liberal Alan Rozenshtein (Minnesota), Wisconsin Law School's Mandatory DEI Trainings And Academic Freedom Law.com, Should US Law Firms Offer 20% Less Pay for 20% Less Work? Tallahassee Democrat, Tonight's NBC 'Dateline' Episode Promises New Details On Dan…
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WSJ Op-Ed: How ‘Evangelical’ Are Iowa’s Evangelicals?
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: How ‘Evangelical’ Are Iowa’s Evangelicals?, by Thomas S. Kidd (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Author, Who is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis (2020)): The 2024 presidential campaign [began] in earnest on Monday, with the Iowa caucuses. On the religion front, this means a new round of reports by…
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There’s No Better Time To Be An Evangelical Christian
Following up on my previous post, Ross Douthat (New York Times Op-Ed), There's No Better Time To Be A Catholic: Russell Moore (Christianity Today Op-Ed), There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be an Evangelical Christian: Just before Christmas, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat responded in his newsletter to the continuing controversy about the Francis papacy…
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Hayashi: Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
Andrew T. Hayashi (Virginia; Google Scholar), Christianity and the Liberal(ish) Income Tax, 38 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y __ (2024): Liberalism is back on its heels, pushed there by political movements in the United States and Europe and by the critiques of legal scholars and political theorists. Some of the most vigorous recent…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: Toronto Star, Law School Founded On DEI Pillar Is Now 'Riven With Betrayal And Fear' Over October 7th And Israel-Hamas War NALP, For The First Time, A Majority Of Law Firm Associates Are Women Boise Dev, Three LGBTQ Students File Discrimination Lawsuit Against Idaho Law School Harvard Law Review, Alienation In Law School …
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NY Times Op-Ed: Cancer, Faith, And Friendship
New York Times Op-Ed: A Terrible Phone Call and What Came Next, by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)): Early on the morning of Friday, Nov. 10, my phone rang with terrible news: My wife, Nancy, has a highly aggressive form of breast cancer. Even as I type these…
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WSJ Op-Ed: Title IX And The Assault On Hillsdale College
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Title IX and the Assault on Hillsdale College, by Tunku Varadarajan (Fellow, American Enterprise Institute & NYU Law School Classical Liberal Institute): Embedded in a civil lawsuit against Hillsdale College is an assault on the fabric of this small, private Christian school founded in 1844. The lawsuit, brought by two undergraduate…
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Higher Education Must Reclaim Its Higher Purpose: Value And Virtue
Newsweek Op-Ed: To Revitalize Higher Ed, Colleges Should Care About Character, by Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine University): Higher education must realize and reclaim its foundational higher purpose, which is to develop and equip people of value and virtue who in turn infuse value and virtue in their communities, countries, and the rest of the world.…
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This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Legal Education: National Jurist, The 20 Most Influential People In Legal Education Michael Simkovic (USC), Lessons From The Resignations Of Penn And Harvard Presidents Liz Magill And Claudine Gay New York Sun, Charlie Adelson To Appeal Conviction In Dan Markel's Murder; Tensions Are High Between Donna And Wendi Reuters, Stanford Law School Appoints Its Third…
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The Top 10 Faith Posts Of 2023
Aaron Renn (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders About Reaching Young Men Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Life, Death, And Legacy Of Tim Keller David Brooks (New York Times) & Michael Gerson (Washington Post), Depression, Suicide, And Faith Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Personal Statement On Hamas And Israel Wall Street…
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WSJ Op-Ed: Our Dog, Who Art In Heaven
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Our Dog, Who Art in Heaven, by Mike Kerrigan (Hunton Andrews Kurth, Charlotte, NC): My mini bernedoodle, Sugaree, … welcome[s me] every weeknight when I come home from work. I haven’t split the atom, ended world hunger or even brought her a new chew toy, yet I am honored like Pompey the…