Celebrating this year, anticipating the next

By BJC Executive Director J. Brent Walker
At the Baptist Joint Committee, the year’s end marks the end of our fiscal year. Projects need to be finished and year-end gifts secured.

From the November/December Report from the Capital

Public schools are not religion-free zones

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director
The start of a new school year provides an opportunity to review the many ways religion can properly be exercised, studied and otherwise included on public school campuses in ways that naturally arise in our very religious — and religiously diverse — country, while keeping school officials out of the business of promoting a particular religion or even religion in general.

From the September 2013 Report from the Capital

The framework of American religious liberty

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director
Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Michael I. Meyerson is a new and wonderful book that responsibly engages the contentious debate about how the framers understood religion and religious liberty in the formation of our national government.

From the June 2013 Report from the Capital

A lunch that launched a vital lectureship

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director
The Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State have provided wonderful opportunities for thousands of students, professors and other campus visitors to imbibe the wisdom the speakers supplied.

From the April 2013 Report from the Capital