Brent Walker on Obama’s First 100 Days in Office

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director April 29, 2009 I write this column as the first 100 days of President Obama’s administration come to a close. What can be said about its church-state record at this early but highly symbolic juncture? A lot has been written...

National survey is propitious to BJC’s planning

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director The recently released American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS, 2008) confirms what we have long known about religion in the United States: we are far less denominational than we used to be, religious diversity is on...

Respecting religious diversity during the holiday season

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director View as PDF For decades we have been confronted by a “December dilemma” of how to acknowledge and celebrate winter religious holidays, usually in the context of the schools, in a way that is constitutional and...