Here are a few lectures and columns Melissa Rogers presented in collaboration with the BJC. All of the lectures are available on the Baptist Joint Committee’s iTunes channel.
Continuity and Change: Faith-based Partnerships Under Presidents Bush and Obama
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This is a lecture given by Rogers during the 2011 Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State on the campus of Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky.
This is another presentation given by Rogers during the 2011 Shurden Lectures.
Keeping Faith Free: Religious Expression in American Public Life
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This was a presentation from Rogers during the 2011 Shurden Lectures.
How to Respond When Religious Freedom is Under Attack
This column from Melissa Rogers was published in the September 2010 edition of the BJC magazine Report from the Capital (pdf). It focuses on how Christians can respond to attacks on religious freedom.
Religious Expression in American Public Life: A Joint Statement of Current Law
This resource, produced under Melissa Rogers’ leadership at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, summarizes how the law addresses some basic questions involving religious practice in public life. It involved collaboration from a diverse group of organizations, including the Baptist Joint Committee. Click here to read the resource as a pdf, and click here to read about its release.
All living former BJC general counsels gathered at the opening event for the Center for Religious Liberty in 2012. From left to right: Oliver “Buzz” Thomas (General Counsel 1985-1993), Brent Walker (1993-1999, Executive Director 1999-present), Melissa Rogers (1999-2000), and Holly Hollman (2000-present). The BJC’s first general counsel, John Baker, was named to the position in 1979 and served in that role until he passed away in 1985.
