
Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
Voices Contributor
Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is director of the Conscience Project, a project advancing conscience rights through public education and amicus support in religious freedom cases.
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The tide is turning on gender ideology, but some parents are still paying the price
A presumption built into our social-work system does not disappear entirely once a regulation is rescinded.

What Joe Rogan gets wrong about Texas' Ten Commandments law
Nobody is asking Texas classrooms to make converts. They’re asking them to leave a door open, a much less alarming thing to hang on a wall.

What happens when AI starts targeting Christians?
As legislatures at every level scramble to regulate AI, the religious liberty dimension of that project remains largely unnamed.

Why Trump’s revival of HHS Conscience Division is a win for religious freedom
Freedom of conscience is an individual's last line of defense. That framing is not rhetorical. It is a legal and moral reality.

Colorado's gender transition tyranny regulates even conversations
The medical consensus on gender-transition treatments for minors is shifting. But many state laws are not — and families are paying the price.

Nigerian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu still captive 7 years later: When will the horrors end?
Leah Sharibu has now spent more than seven years in captivity, held by the Boko Haram since February 19, 2018.

Don't let Charlie Kirk's murder scare you
Calling good evil and evil good is nothing new — but hostility toward faith has grown sharper, more relentless and now, tragically, deadly.

Dangerous liaisons: Nicaragua, China and Catholic integralism
Such naivety, to put it charitably, was a reminder that a minority of Christians will always be susceptible to the temptation to secularize the Kingdom of God and the charms of repressive governments.

'Thy will be done': Finding strength amid Christian persecution
At the same time, all of us need a much clearer picture of the global resurgence in religious persecution, which has been ignored by governments and media.

'Emanuel' film shows power of forgiveness
A new film, "Emanuel: The Untold Story of the Victims and Survivors of the Charleston Church Shooting," tells what came next as survivors lived out Christ’s hard teaching (Matthew 18:22), to forgive the sins of our brothers “seventy-seven times.”



























