The exiting Trump administration handed a parting gift on Thursday to faith-based adoption and foster care agencies: a final rule allowing them to receive federal funding while following Biblical beliefs on same-sex marriage.

After Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., denied Margaret DeWeese-Boyd promotion to full professorship, she sued the school in September 2017. The former social work professor claimed the evangelical school retaliated against her for advocating pro-LGBT views and opposing the institutional standards on human sexuality.

The American folk song “Keep Your Eyes On the Prize” gained popularity for its part in the Civil Rights Movement. But now, its title could suggest another movement: restoring the place of religious liberty for individuals and institutions in American life. First Amendment advocates are hopeful that three cases currently before the Supreme Court may help extend some of the gains of 2020 and check overzealous governmental officials.

A New Year’s Eve ruling vindicated nine Ohio Christian schools, blocking implementation of a county order that closed all schools for grades 7-11.

Historians looking back at 2020 may key in on a culture upended by pandemic, racial protests, and a particularly fraught election. But a bevy of U.S. Supreme Court decisions strengthening religious liberty—for individuals, churches, and other institutions—could prove the more enduring seismic shift.

The website of the Las Vegas–area church Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley features a new banner: “Church services have resumed.”

A federal appeals court panel last week ruled Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s 50-person cap on in-person worship services was unconstitutional, overturning a lower court decision. It’s the latest court ruling to reel in governors’ pandemic restrictions on churches.

A Supreme Court ready for a break punted a religious liberty case on Thursday. The justices denied a Kentucky Christian school’s request to reopen after Gov. Andy Beshear shuttered it.