Legal Spirits

Recent Episodes

Legal Spirits Episode 025: Supreme Court Law and Religion Roundup

Posted July 15, 2020 • 00:27:31

In this podcast, we discuss the end of the Supreme Court’s term, which included a number of important cases related to law and religion–Bostock,...

Legal Spirits Episode 024: Church Closings in the Time of Coronavirus–Part II

Posted June 28, 2020 • 00:23:43

In this followup to Episode 22, we discuss new developments in litigation over government orders to close churches during the COVID-19 epidemic, including...

Legal Spirits Episode 023: Journalist Kelsey Dallas on Religion in America Today

Posted May 19, 2020 • 00:30:02

Kelsey Dallas, the national religion reporter for the Deseret News, is one of the best religion journalists writing today: thorough, fair, and insightful....

Legal Spirits Episode 022: Church Closings in the Time of Coronavirus

Posted April 26, 2020 • 00:27:17

In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, many state and local governments have banned “non-essential” gatherings of more than 10 people, including...

Legal Spirits Episode 021: The New Little Sisters of the Poor Case (featuring Prof. Kevin Walsh)

Posted April 2, 2020 • 00:26:22

The Little Sisters of the Poor are litigants before the Supreme Court once more, this time as intervening defendants in an action by Pennsylvania and...