Is the Supreme Court immune from public pressure? What is the role of the government when it comes to nondiscrimination laws, gender identity, and posting Scripture? As we begin season 5 of Respecting Religion, Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman take live questions from an audience on these topics and more. Hear their updates from the summer as they share what we can expect from this new Supreme Court term, as well as how decisions are impacting our country at all levels.
BJC is proud to announce a historic transition of its board leadership. For the first time, the BJC Board of Directors elected a Latina person to serve as chair and a Jewish person to serve as vice chair.
BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler will speak at the Democracy360 Summit hosted by the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia.
BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler will speak at the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s 46th annual national convention in Madison, Wisconsin.
BJC believes that a threat to anyone’s religious liberty is a threat to everyone’s religious liberty. From our coalition efforts with members of other religions to our work standing up for the right of all individuals to practice their faith freely (or practice no faith), BJC defends both our fellow Christians and individuals whose beliefs differ from our own.
BJC and the BJC Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation are urgently needed to counter the white supremacy menacing religious liberty for all in the United States, said the Rev. Dr. Adam Bond, a scholar and Baptist minister.
Several Baptist-affiliated groups decried the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling overturning race-conscious affirmative action policies for college admissions.
BJC welcomed ten young professionals as our 2023 class of BJC Fellows. Their experience began in Colonial Williamsburg, hearing from historical interpreters as well as BJC staff members and other experts about the historical, legal and theological underpinnings of religious liberty.
The chaplains issued the call in response to SB 763, which permits school districts to allow faith-based chaplains to serve as counselors in public schools
“Public schools are not the place for religious instruction — that is best left to houses of worship, religious institutions and families.”
As the executive director, Amanda leads BJC as it upholds the historic Baptist principle of religious liberty: defending the free exercise of religion and protecting against its establishment by government.
As a researcher and writer at BJC, Don Byrd authors the posts in the “latest news” section of our website, and he provides research on important cases for BJC’s legal team.
