Last month, St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland announced the discovery, right in their own Greenfield Library, of a previously unpublished manuscript titled “Reasons for tolerating Papists ...

In his Lyceum Address, a young Abraham Lincoln praised the Founding Fathers for creating “a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, ...

At times like this it is worth considering and reflecting upon the history and principles of religious toleration. We often lost sight of just how demanding and challenging calls for religious ...

It is increasingly felt by many that we are moving towards a fiercely conflict-ridden world in which toleration is needed badly. But what does toleration mean? Perhaps it is best to begin by making a ...

When the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization came out suggesting that the Supreme Court was prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade one of my students said: “Since I ...

In U.S. Protestant circles there is a particularly popular story about the origins of religious toleration. In the aftermath of the Reformation, the story goes, there was an Age of Religious Wars ...

300 years ago, Pierre Bayle offered a Protestant defense of religious pluralism. Recent months have brought fearsome reminders of the destructive force of corrupted religion. In the Swat region of ...

Many people living in liberal societies take it for granted that toleration and freedom of expression are positives. They support the view that no one has the right to impose their political, ...