Come to think of it, when was the last time the Texas Education Board did something *not* controversial? This time, it's a resolution asserting that recent textbooks in social studies and history have been biased toward the Muslim faith, at the expense of...
Today's Tennessean reports that 7 ministers across the state plan to flaunt the IRS prohibition against electioneering from the pulpit, in response to ADF's search for potential plaintiffs as part of its Pulpit Sunday plan. These pastors, of course, risk their...
The Baptist Joint Committee's Brent Walker slammed the Alliance Defense Fund's newest initiative: urging ministers to endorse political candidates from the pulpit in violation of the tax code. Walker says “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” is a...
Once again, the Alliance Defense Fund is asking pastors to break the law governing tax-exempt political restrictions, in search of a test case to challenge its constitutionality. Ministers are being asked to endorse candidates from the pulpit this Sunday in direct...
The legacy of Baptist preacher John Leland – fierce proponent of church-state separation and soul freedom during the founding of our country – is best appreciated by reading the words of the man himself. Some of my favorites: The notion of a Christian...
10 years ago today, the work of religious liberty advocates – including the Baptist Joint Committee – paid off as President Clinton signed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act into law. Realizing that subtle forms of discrimination,...
