# BJC Online

> BJC champions religious freedom, working with leaders to ensure faith can be practiced safely\. Join the movement for justice and stay informed with BJC resources\.

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## Pages
- [Internships](https://bjconline.org/internships/)
- [Protecting the Johnson Amendment](): Religious and nonprofit groups are united against any calls to repeal or change the so\-called “Johnson Amendment,” which has become shorthand for a part of the tax law that applies to all 501\(c\)\(3\) organizations\. The law protects houses of worship and other nonprofit organizations from political pressure and additional dangers that come with endorsing and opposing candidates\.
- [State\-organized Prayer](): Texas’ state\-organized prayer in school law threatens students’ right to belong, their right to learn, and their right to practice their faith freely without government coercion\. Find out more about this law and what you can do about it\.
- [Public School Chaplains](): Chaplains, faith groups and civil rights organizations across the country are speaking out against a wave of proposed state legislation seeking to install chaplains in public schools across the country
- [Sign the Christians Against Christian Nationalism Statement]()

## Posts
- [What Else Is Going Back to School?](): A new school year means more than new notebooks and pencils\. It also means new state and federal policies — Bible readings, Ten Commandments displays, and federal school vouchers — affecting public education and religious exercise for students and their teachers\.
- [25 years after 9/11: Recommitting to Religious Liberty](): In the face of fear, we have an opportunity to recommit to shared values of who we want to be as a people in a time of crisis – to reaffirm that religious liberty requires unconditional belonging for every person, regardless of belief or religious identity\. 
- [Why I testified at a congressional hearing on anti\-Sharia laws]()
- [Every Generation Is the Founding Generation](): As the country marks 250 years, we are not looking backward at a finished thing\. We are looking around us at an unfinished one, and at the people still building it\.
- [Government Called the Separation of Church \& State a Myth\. History and BJC Say Otherwise\.](): After months of airing selective grievances, the Trump administration's Religious Liberty Commission released its 224\-page draft report, and BJC let them know what they got wrong\.

## Court Cases
- [Ten Commandments Cases](): BJC supports families who are challenging mandated displays of the Ten Commandments\. There is a stark difference between state\-sponsored religious indoctrination and teaching about religion\.
- [Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v\. Drummond](): Religion should never be compelled, and the government should not fund religious education\.
- [Carson v\. Makin]()
- [Grand v\. City of University Heights](): BJC joined a brief in support of Daniel Grand, defending his right to have a religious gathering in his home — and his ability to sue to protect that right\. A person should not have to wait for a final administrative ruling from the government in order to bring a claim, particularly if their religious exercise is being stopped while waiting\.
- [Landor v\. Louisiana Department of Corrections](): Prison guards cannot forcibly shave someone’s head if they are practicing a religion that requires long hair, but that’s exactly what happened to Damon Landor in a Louisiana prison\. The question for the Supreme Court: Is he entitled to monetary damages for such an egregious violation? BJC says yes, but the Supreme Court issued a disappointing decision on June 23, 2026\. Here is more information on this case and RLUIPA\. 

## Events
- [Katie Callaway Leads Educational Session in Fairfax, Virginia]()
- [Amanda Tyler speaks on 'How to End Christian Nationalism' in Washington, D\.C\.]()

## Magazines
- [Providing mercy in the face of repression](): “How did prayer and protests — the physical manifestation of mercy — all become grounds for conflict with the state?” asked Dr\. Sergio González during our 2025 lecture series\. “When did mercy become a crime?”
- [Whose Bible? Whose Kids?](): Somewhere, a kindergartner is about to learn the Bible from the state of Texas — whether they’re Christian or not and whether their parents want it or not\. 
- [Protect the Ballot, Protect Faith Freedom](): Faith communities are not powerless in the face of threats to free and fair elections, and they are rising to meet the moment\. See how you can get involved\.
- [Preservation is Not Passive](): Too often, land is treated as a commodity, something to be extracted from until only a shell remains\. But for Indigenous communities, land is not just property; it is identity, ancestry, and sacred trust\.
- [When Bearing Witness Leads to Bold Advocacy](): You don’t need to be Apache to feel it\. You just have to be quiet long enough to listen\.

## People
- [Israel Igualate]()
- [Lily Relleke]()
- [Kwadwo Asante]()
- [Aditya Vayalapalli]()
- [Sandra Sandoval]()

## Podcasts
- [S7, Ep\. 06: Updates on Oak Flat, the Johnson Amendment, and efforts to post the Ten Commandments](): Hear Amanda and Holly react live to some breaking developments in today’s Respecting Religion podcast\. One day after new legislation was introduced in Congress to save sacred Indigenous land, they discuss the history of and need for the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act\. Plus, they talk about a brand\-new class action lawsuit in Texas trying to halt the unconstitutional posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, and they share an update on the latest court activity regarding efforts to protect the Johnson Amendment\.
- [S5, Ep\. 21: But … is it Christian nationalism?](): Is an American flag in a church sanctuary an example of Christian nationalism? What about faith\-based advocacy? Helping voters get to the polls? Saying the Constitution is “divinely inspired”? Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman answer some common questions they hear about Christian nationalism, and they talk about the questions we should be asking ourselves\.
- [S7, Ep\. 03: Why is the Johnson Amendment under attack again?](): We hear a lot of misinformation about a long\-standing part of the tax code that protects the nonprofit sector, and it’s newly under attack in a questionable manner\. On this episode, Amanda and Holly discuss the Johnson Amendment, what it does and doesn’t do, and the concerning way the Trump administration is trying to undo it without going through a normal process\. They also provide reminders of what all nonprofits – including houses of worship – can do without jeopardizing their 501\(c\)\(3\) status under that current law\. It’s a curious case – politicians say no one wants this part of the tax code, but it’s proven popular over and over again\. Join them for this conversation\.
- [S7, Ep\. 10: Court update: Ten Commandments cases, Johnson Amendment dismissal, and SCOTUS actions](): Catch up on all things court\-related as Amanda and Holly run through some big decisions and changes over the past few months, including the multiple decisions in cases about posting the Ten Commandments, the dismissal of a legal challenge to the Johnson Amendment, and the Supreme Court’s undermining of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act\. 
- [S4, Ep\. 07: Does the Respect for Marriage Act protect religious liberty?](): Can marriage equality and religious liberty co\-exist? Amanda and Holly discuss the Respect for Marriage Act, including what led to this bill’s creation, the legislative wrangling to get it passed in an election year, and the bevy of amendments full of political posturing\. They also discuss the important distinctions between marriage as a civil institution and marriage as a religious institution\. Learn more about the current state of conflicts over LGBTQ rights and religious objections to same\-sex marriage and what this means to those conversations\.

## Press Releases
- [Chaplains, faith groups, and civil rights organizations oppose public school chaplain programs](): In three open letters to state lawmakers, more than 200 individual chaplains, along with dozens of faith groups and civil rights organizations, are speaking out against a wave of proposed state legislation seeking to install chaplains in public schools across the country\.
- [More than 160 Texas faith leaders oppose state\-organized prayer](): “We believe in the value of religious instruction,” reads the letter\. “We also understand that the responsibility for religious instruction lies with students, their families, and their local faith communities—not with public schools, and not organized or directed by the state”
- [BJC: At\-home worship and prayer deserve strong First Amendment protection](): An Orthodox Jewish man should be able to sue the city trying to stop his at\-home worship, even without a final zoning decision, according to a Supreme Court brief joined by BJC \(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty\)\. 
- [First Amendment, pluralism undermined in decision to uphold Texas Ten Commandments mandate](): Hollman: When the state mandates a religious text on every classroom, it is not just decorating a wall, it places the government’s weight behind one religious tradition at the expense of all others\.
- [166 Texas Faith Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Protect Religious Freedom by Rejecting Ten Commandments Displays in Public School Classrooms](): A group of Texas faith leaders are calling on state legislators to vote against SB 10, HB 1009, and any other bill that would require every K\-12 public school to display a government\-selected version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom\.

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