Tickets for Religious Liberty Council Luncheon go on sale April 1

New CBF Executive Coordinator to speak, receive award
Make plans to join friends of religious liberty and the Baptist Joint Committee at this year’s Religious Liberty Council Luncheon, to be held June 28 in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly.

From the March 2013 Report from the Capital.

Alabama Churches Argue Immigrant Law Will Harm Ministry

A lawsuit from plaintiffs including Alabama churches and religious organizations is challenging that state's new law placing penalties on those providing aid to undocumented immigrants. The complaint, brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, argues...

Is France Just Different?

In today's Wall Street Journal, Peter Berkowitz argues that a ban on the full veil for Muslim women – which he says would be "unthinkable" in the United States – might make sense for France. France is different. It is home to approximately...

Walker Q&A on modern-day Baptists and separation

From Associated Baptist Press Baptists have, since their earliest days, been advocates of religious liberty and its corollary, the separation of church and state. But different groups of modern-day Baptists in the United States interpret church-state separation...

More on the “Decline of Christian America”

In Sunday's Washington Post, E.J. Dionne offers some sensible explanations for the country's changing religious demographic, as discussed in Jon Meachem's controversial Newsweek piece, "The End of Christian America." Dionne finds the developments...