Recent News & Columns
Here are recent columns and news items from the Baptist Joint Committee. Visit our blog and read our monthly magazine, Report from the Capital, to stay current on all religious liberty news. You can also read our press releases online.
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Exploring the church-state side of the same-sex marriage cases
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
Grim international religious freedom violations reviewed in annual report
By Cherilyn Crowe
Special Hollman Report: Understanding religious liberty in the same-sex marriage cases
By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, is not a First Amendment case. Its potential impact, however, has increased conversations about religious liberty, particularly...
Hollman Report: Utah compromise worth consideration
By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman
Reflections: Ten commandments for campaigns
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
Supreme Court wrestles with religious accommodations on the job
By Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service with BJC Staff Reports
School vouchers threaten religious autonomy
Expending tax dollars to promote and advance religious education is bad for the government and the schools. Access to the public purse may assert unintended peer pressure on the religious schools to soften or outright abandon some of their core principles.
Reflections: Religious advocacy, past and present
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
Supreme Court affirms prisoner’s right to religious grooming practice
By BJC Staff Reports
Reflections: Do states need religious freedom legislation?
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
