These pages contain reflections by Paul Rasor, Center Director, on current issues touching religious freedom and the work of the Center.
- Misunderstanding and Confusion about Religious Freedom
(from the Center's spring 2008 newsletter) - Virginia Enacts Religious Freedom Law
(from the Center's fall 2007 newsletter) - Intelligent Design: Religion or Science?
(a feature column in Religious Studies News, published by the American Academy of Religion, May 2007; a shorter version of this piece appeared in the Center's spring 2007 newsletter) - The Earliest Religious Freedom Law
(from the Center's fall 2006 newsletter) - Faith, Freedom, and the First Amendment: A Liberal Perspective
(the text of the Director's talk at the ODU Friends of the Library Annual Author Dinner, March 29, 2006)
- Conflict and Confusion Around Church-State Separation
(from the Center's spring 2006 newsletter)
- "What Now for the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom?"
(the text of the Director's inaugural address, October 6, 2005)
- Public Displays of the Ten Commandments
(from the Center's fall 2005 newsletter)
- Pledging "Under God"
(from a column in The Virginian-Pilot, August 14, 2005)