A Matter of Conviction: Finland’s “Bible Trial”

Their conviction came just a few months ago, but Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola have already endured more than six years of punishment for religious speech. It’s a case, Bishop Pohjola says, that should be seen as important “not only as a legal precedent concerning religious speech, but also for the message it sends to every Christian who holds to the biblical understanding of grace and sin, marriage and human sexuality.”