This column appeared in the October 2010 edition of Report from the Capital. Click here to read the full edition. By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director It’s good to be back from my summer-long sabbatical. Thanks to James Dunn, Buzz Thomas, Stan Hastey and Melissa...
By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director View as PDF Holiday festivities began this year long before Thanksgiving. Christmas trees were cut and ready to be sold, pre-Christmas sales were already being advertised, and I listened to piped-in Christmas music as I stood...
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...
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...
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...
