Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Faith
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Alvaré: Families, Schools, And Religious Freedom
Helen M. Alvaré (George Mason; Google Scholar), Families, Schools, and Religious Freedom, 54 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 579 (2023): Christian scriptures point to human beings’ ordinary romantic and familial relationships and experiences as likely irreplaceable pathways for glimpsing foundational beliefs about the identity of God, his love for humanity, and how human beings are to…
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WaPo Op-Ed: America Doesn’t Need More God. It Needs More Atheists.
Washington Post Op-Ed: America Doesn’t Need More God. It Needs More Atheists., by Kate Cohen (Author, We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) (2023)): I like to say that my kids made me an atheist. But really what they did was make me honest. I was raised…
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Nii Addy: Christian. Black. Neuroscientist.
John Inazu (Washington University; Google Scholar), Christian. Black. Neuroscientist.: Nii Addy is the Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale School of Medicine. Nii directs a federally funded research program investigating cholinergic, dopaminergic and L-type calcium channel mechanisms mediating substance use and mood disorders. His team also studies…
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Ted Lasso, Pelagius, And Augustine: Can People Change?
Christianity Today, Can People Change? ‘Ted Lasso’ Revived an Ancient Debate.: In a time when societal consensus, let alone advancement, seems painfully unattainable, the quirky television comedy Ted Lasso has struck a chord. … At the heart of the show is a question one of the characters raises in the series finale. Roy Kent has just experienced a…
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The Largest Christian Ministries In America Are Universities
Baptist News Global, Can You Guess the Largest Christian Ministries in America by Annual Revenue?: What would you guess are the largest Christian ministries in America by total annual revenue? If you guessed an institution of higher education, you might be right. The No. 1, 2 and 3 spots on the list are occupied by universities…
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Symposium: The Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Conference
Symposium, The Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Conference, 38 Touro L. Rev. 1027-1167 (2023): Samuel J. Levine (Touro; Google Scholar), The Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Foreword, 38 Touro L. Rev. 1027 (2023) Randy Lee (Widener), Can a Christian be a Lawyer or Can Both God and Jackson Browne be Right, 38 Touro L. Rev. 1029…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Why I Am Still A Christian Despite The Evils Done To My Enslaved Family
New York Times Op-Ed: Why I Am Still a Christian, by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College; Author, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South (Sept. 2023): Discarding a belief in God can feel like an intellectual rite of passage to adulthood. Just as our bodies develop…
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WSJ Op-Ed: We Can All Learn About Forgiveness From Colorado Football Player Travis Hunter
Following up on last week's post, The Parable Of The Prodigal Son: Justice, Mercy, And Humility: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: We Can All Learn From Travis Hunter: The Colorado Player Sets a Fine Example of Forgiveness, by Mike Kerrigan (Hunton Andrews Kurth, Charlotte, NC): [Colorado wide receiver and cornerback] was considered a Heisman Trophy contender before the matchup…
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Nation’s Largest Christian University Says Biden Administration Is Unjustly Targeting It
Grand Canyon University News, Government Agencies Unjustly Targeting GCU (Oct. 4, 2023): Government officials associated with the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and under the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are coordinating efforts to unjustly target GCU in what appears to be retaliation for the university filing an…
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College Kids Are ‘Hungry’ For Christianity On Campus, Pepperdine Leader Says
Fox News, College kids Are 'Hungry' For Christianity on Campus, Pepperdine Leader Says: 'Central' to School Life: An associate vice president at a Christian university told Fox News Digital that he believes college students today are hungry for a robust spiritual life — and it is up to schools to ensure that their needs are…
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WSJ Op-Ed: What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders About Reaching Young Men
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders, by Aaron M. Renn (American Reformer, a Protestant nonprofit): Gavin Newsom is a concerned father. “I really worry about these micro-cults that my kids are in,” California’s governor told Bloomberg’s Brad Stone in an interview this month. “My son is asking me about Andrew…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Being There — The Cure For The Male Loneliness Epidemic
New York Times Op-Ed: Being There, by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)): Last week I read a poignant piece arguing that the male loneliness epidemic was afflicting a surprising group: American fathers. In one sense, these were men who were surrounded by love. They were typically married. They had…
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The Parable Of The Prodigal Son: Justice, Mercy, And Humility
I spoke at last Wednesday night's Bible study and dinner that my wife and I host for students, staff, and faculty. I talked about two of my favorite passages in Scripture: Micah 6:8 ("[W]hat does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.") and the…
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Speech By Princeton’s Robby George About Free Speech Is Shouted Down At Washington College
Chronicle of Higher Education, A Professor Spoke About ‘Campus Illiberalism.’ Students Shouted Him Down Over His Anti-LGBTQ Views.: This month, Robert P. George gave a campus talk about what he sees as a growing intolerance of certain viewpoints in higher ed. “At some colleges and universities, speaking invitations to dissenters from campus orthodoxies are not…
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NY Times Op-Ed: What Happens When The Boss Invites You To Bible Study?
New York Times Op-Ed: What Happens When the Boss Invites You to Bible Study?, by Jennifer Miller: When Christy Childers moved from Austin to San Francisco in 2017 to start a marketing job at Facebook, she felt anxious about sharing her evangelical faith with her new colleagues. In Ms. Childers’s religious community, Silicon Valley has…
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McCaulley: The Streets Sent Me to the Pulpit
Christianity Today Op-Ed: The Streets Sent Me to the Pulpit, by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton; Author, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South (Sept. 2023): My sophomore year of high school, I met a girl at a party. We talked on the phone for a…
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WSJ Op-Ed: ‘Sunday Morning’ — Lawyer Wallace Stevens’s Divine Stanzas
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: ‘Sunday Morning’: Wallace Stevens’s Divine Stanzas, by Daniel Akst: Sundays aren’t what they used to be, but then again when were they? The Christian sabbath was already losing primacy a century ago when an insurance lawyer by the name of Wallace Stevens published “Harmonium,” his first book of poems, and thereby…
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Wheaton College Releases Report On Its History Of Racism
Christianity Today, Wheaton College Releases Report on Its History of Racism: Wheaton College embraced racist attitudes that “created an inhospitable and sometimes hostile campus environment for persons of color,” according to a a 122 page review of the school’s history released by trustees today. Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists, over the…
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Inazu: The Bad News About Politics Without Religion
John Inazu (Washington University; Google Scholar), The Bad News About Politics Without Religion: In early 2016, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat tweeted, “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.” Later that year, with Donald Trump having emerged as the Republican presidential candidate, Douthat followed up with a column titled “In Defense of the Religious Right.”…
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University Of Texas Professor: Final Thoughts As My Death Is Close At Hand
Washington Post Op-Ed: My Death Is Close at Hand. But I Do Not Think of Myself as Dying., by Paul Woodruff (University of Texas; Google Scholar): How often do you think about death? “Every third thought,” said Shakespeare’s avatar Prospero in the last line of the last speech he gives in Shakespeare’s last play, “The…
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‘Surprised By Oxford’ Film Highlights How C.S. Lewis, Romantic Poets Helped Bring A Skeptic To Faith
The Christian Post, ‘Surprised by Oxford’ Film Highlights How C.S. Lewis, Romantic Poets Helped Bring a Skeptic to Faith: For those who love C.S. Lewis, Carolyn Weber’s conversion story sounds familiar: Like the Chronicles of Narnia author, she was a skeptical Oxford scholar who didn’t see faith as compatible with intellect — until she discovered Christ as…
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Shane Claiborne At Pepperdine Caruso Law: ‘We Belong And Pursue Truth As One’
Wednesday was a very special day at Pepperdine Caruso Law: Shane Claiborne spoke over lunch in our Dean's Speaker Series on Amazing Grace: Christianity and Justice and over dinner at our Dean's Bible Study on Luke 7:22. Shane did a spectacular job in both settings and was incredibly gracious to our students, staff, and faculty.…
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WSJ: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings, And The Bible
Wall Street Journal, Tolkien’s Biblical Epic: If, in the 1930s, someone had sought to predict the bestselling English author of the 20th century, they probably would not have selected the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who died 50 years ago on Sept. 2, 1973, spent his entire professional…
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2023 Religious Law School Rankings
The Most Devout Law Schools, preLaw (Winter 2023): Religion has long played a significant role at many of the nation’s law schools. Here we highlight the top 20. … While 46 of the nation’s 200 law schools have ties to religious organizations, there is a big difference between them when it comes to acting on…
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Should Nonreligious Jewish Law Faculty Teach On Rosh Hashanah?
Forward, Alan Dershowitz Helps Out With a High Holiday Dilemma: Dear Professor Dershowitz, Like you, I am a law professor. I teach at a private law school that does not cancel classes on Rosh Hashanah. While the school is closed in observance of select holidays, such as Good Friday, Martin Luther King Day and Yom…