Blog Posts
RFI President Eric Patterson: The Treasure of Religious Freedom
October 27, 2023
RFI President Eric Patterson: “Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech at 60 Years”
August 28, 2023
RFI President Eric Patterson: “The Dawn’s Early Light”
July 3, 2023
The Marshall Plan at 75: An Act to Promote World Peace
April 6, 2023
Religious Freedom Day 2023 – Jefferson’s Virginia Statutes for Religious Freedom
January 27, 2023
Supreme Court Must Reject Government Attempts to Compel Speech
December 1, 2022
Is Same-Sex Marriage a Religious Freedom?
October 28, 2022
Recent Supreme Court Rulings Have Not Undermined the ‘Separation of Church and State’
October 28, 2022
The President’s Costly Learning Curve on Foreign Policy
August 12, 2022
American Diplomacy Abandons Religious Freedom
August 12, 2022
Tom Farr Opening Remarks: National Committee for Religious Freedom Launch Event
January 21, 2022
Michigan Town Elects All-Muslim City Government And Reaffirms The American Project
December 3, 2021
The Mayflower Compact (1620) vs. The 1619 Project
November 24, 2021
America’s Theological Social Contract: The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 2021
The Absence of Religious Faith at the 9/11 Memorial
September 9, 2021
C.S. Lewis on Love of Country and Love of God: An Independence Day Reflection
July 2, 2021
High Court Favors Plaintiffs in Fulton … But Fails to Affirm Religious Freedom for All Americans
June 22, 2021
Affirmation of America’s First Freedoms Begins At Home
January 21, 2021
Religious Freedom Day 2021: A Time to Look Back in Order to Move Forward
January 15, 2021
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Power and Love
January 15, 2021
Amen, A-Woman, and a Benediction that Dishonored the Spirit of Religious Liberty
January 8, 2021
Protect Religion’s Place in the Public Square
October 30, 2020
Come Be My Light: The American Crisis of Religious Freedom and Catholic Responsibility
August 17, 2020
Why We Need Religious Freedom for All: An Appeal and Invitation to the Church | Review of Luke Goodrich’s Free to Believe
June 19, 2020
RFI’s Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team Joins Amicus Brief on Critical Supreme Court Foster Care Case
June 5, 2020
President’s Call for National Day of Prayer for Those Affected by COVID-19 Has Deep Roots in American History
March 20, 2020
RFI President and Executive Vice President Speak at Conference on Christianity and National Security
November 6, 2019
What in the World is Religious Freedom?
November 1, 2019
The Supreme Court’s Tale of Two Cities
July 12, 2019
Unalienable Rights and Foreign Policy
July 9, 2019
The Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Equality: In Bladensburg Cross Case, the High Court Partially Restores Founders’ View
June 24, 2019
Protect religious freedom by exercising it, defending for others
June 7, 2019
The Equality Act Will Harm Religious Freedom
May 17, 2019
RFI’s Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team Files Amicus Brief in Tree of Life Christian Schools Case
May 9, 2019
Can a Religious School Still Be Religious?
February 28, 2019
RFI’s Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team Files Amicus Brief in Bladensburg Cross Supreme Court Case
February 1, 2019
Publications
Cornerstone Forum
Up From Originalism
May 20, 2022
Christianity Is Not Merely Another Identity: The Case of Shurtleff v. City of Boston
May 13, 2022
Revisiting the “Separation of Church and State” in Our Time of Deep Division
October 8, 2021
The Increased Silencing of Free Exercise of Religion
December 17, 2020
The Little Sisters’ Win Reminds Us of What We’ve Lost
July 23, 2020
Statesmanship and Religious Freedom
January 21, 2020
Religion and the American Constitutional Settlement
July 9, 2018
Early American Modifications of Locke’s Theory of Toleration
July 26, 2016
The Religious Roots of the Constitution
June 30, 2016
Religious Freedom and Establishment in the Young American Republic
June 16, 2016
A Religious Freedom Frontier Thesis
June 16, 2016
Religious Freedom in Early America: Complicating the Common Narrative
June 16, 2016
Religious Freedom and the First American President
June 14, 2016
The Limits of Religious Liberty
June 14, 2016
The Founders and Religious Freedom: A Critical Look
June 14, 2016
Freedom, Duty, and Diversity of Religion in America’s Founding
June 14, 2016
The American Founding: Understanding the Connection between Religious and Civil Liberties
June 14, 2016
Freedom to Believe and Act: Why We All Need Religious Freedom
June 14, 2016
Religious Freedom As the First Freedom
June 14, 2016
Press Releases
Ambassador Sam Brownback Launches National Committee for Religious Freedom
January 14, 2022
Press Release: RFI Welcomes Supreme Court’s Move to Restore Founder’s View of Establishment Clause
June 24, 2019
Timothy Shah: What American History Teaches About Importance of Putting Principles into Practice
October 12, 2017
Speaking Engagements
Videos
America’s First Freedom Curriculum Series | Video 5
May 19, 2022
America’s First Freedom Curriculum Series | Video 8
May 19, 2022
America’s First Freedom Curriculum Series | Video 9
May 19, 2022
America’s First Freedom Curriculum Series | Video 10
May 19, 2022
America’s First Freedom Curriculum Series | Video 11
May 19, 2022