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I am a writer, advocate, and podcaster with over 25 years of experience as a civil rights litigator and speaker at over 30 college campuses in the U.S., various legal continuing education programs, panel discussions, and numerous conferences in Russia, Morocco, and Lebanon.
Alliance Defending Freedom has designated me an Honor Guard Attorney, and in 2005 I was given the Mary Beth Tinker Award by the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Law Project for “courageous representation,” with the Rutherford Institute, of a little girl who wanted to wear her Muslim headscarf to her public school…
Listen Now
Leah’s Conversation Balloons interview podcast series is consistently 5-star-rated for compassion, curiosity, and comic moments. “I wanted to create the kind of podcast I want to hear,” she says, “–with positive, challenging discussion, and no commercials!”
Leah has interviewed change-makers and children, scholars and wanderers, and all that’s missing is you. Click below to learn more!
Most Recent Posts
7 Practical Ways Grandparents Can Pass Their Faith to Their Grandchildren
How Can Grandparents Pass Their Faith to the Next Generation? Our faith is not only something we believe. It is something we can intentionally share with the generations who come…
What I Got Wrong about Gethsemane
I grew up looking at a lugubrious, Victorian-era painting of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. I knew that as He prayed there the night before His crucifixion, He sweated…
Scholarly Work
Originally published as Leah Farish, “The Meaning of the (Fifteen-Minute) City: Twenty-First-Century Planning Through Ellul’s Eyes,” Ellul Forum 76 (Spring 2026): 47–62. Read the issue at ellul.org. “Any vision of…
I was honored to be asked to contribute the chapter on the Sixth Commandment, and to focus on the topic of abortion, in this international scholarly project! It is available as…
Smithsonian Magazine describes an 84-page version of the New Testament that Thomas Jefferson finished making in 1820. Calling it The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, he cobbled it together by…
Devotionals
How Can Grandparents Pass Their Faith to the Next Generation? Our faith is not only something we believe. It is something we can intentionally share with the generations who come…
I grew up looking at a lugubrious, Victorian-era painting of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. I knew that as He prayed there the night before His crucifixion, He sweated…
Abraham was called to leave his birth-land and go to a new place, to be the father and founder of a great nation. After a long life on this mission,…
Podcasts
Two thirds of Americans say they would like to spend more time with a different age group. Our Top 25% show brings understanding, solutions, empathy, and a little fun to intergenerational relationships. I interview experts and celebrities for insight into family, society, caregiving and workplace connections between age groups.
Free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, YouTube, and more! Browse recent episode and view our Gallery of Guests: CLICK HERE.