Some aggrieved Christians are threatening civil disobedience these days over the gay marriage issue. More broadly, the issue of conscientious objection rights for dissenters in various fields, from ...

Protests against the flood of executive orders emanating from the White House in the last week have given rise to spontaneous demonstrations, electronic petitions and a return of the practice of civil ...

The history of social reform in America is inextricably tied to civil disobedience. Women used it to advocate for their right to vote during the women’s suffrage movement. Civil rights activists held ...

Civil disobedience has legal consequences. It is proposed as an analogy to Jesus work and final sacrifice. Jesus enters Jerusalem knowing authorities there wanted to kill him. For about four days he ...

Reading time: 3 minutes Celia Bardwell-Jones, left, and Tim Freeman, right, speak at symposium. UH Hilo philosophy and business faculty held a public symposium in September titled, “Do We Have an ...

There is nothing particularly remarkable about the Dakota Access pipeline. Thousands of miles of pipelines stretch across the country, ferrying oil from drilling sites to ports and refineries. Each ...

Crown Forum. 319 pages. $27. From the tea party to Occupy Wall Street to #BlackLivesMatter, America has spent much of this young century questioning its premises. And as the battles over federal ...

As abortion continues to wane as a top issue of concern for American voters, some pro-life groups are resorting to “peaceful civil disobedience” by organizing abortion clinic blockades and using their ...

Michelle Eisen, a 15-year Starbucks veteran, is a barista for the coffee chain at a location in Buffalo—the first Starbucks store to unionize back in December 2021, in fact. But on a Tuesday in March, ...

"Recent controversies regarding hecklers at law-school speaker events suggests that another time-honored American tradition has been forgotten: that of principled and non-violent civil disobedience," ...

The Bible has a number of models for nonviolent resistance. Excerpted and reprinted with permission from "The Sword and the Plowshare as Tools of Tikkun Olam," published by The Shalom Center. If we ...

As tension increases in Catalonia, there have been calls for widespread civil disobedience against the Spanish government. Even the recent referendum itself, along with its 2014 precursor, have been ...