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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BJC’s Brent Walker, Others React to Hobby Lobby Decision
Written by Don Byrd
Reflections: New book on President Jimmy Carter highlights redemption, Baptist faith
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
Hollman Report: BJC opposes school vouchers, files brief in Colorado case
By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman
Baptist group supports Muslim prisoner’s right to religious grooming practice in Supreme Court brief
BJC signs brief in Holt v. Hobbs
On liberty and justice for all
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
Legal and practical implications of Town of Greece v. Galloway
By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman
Contraceptive mandate oral arguments shed light on underreported issues
By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman
A model of service to others
By Executive Director J. Brent Walker
A new primer on a ‘touchy subject’
By Brent Walker, Executive Director
My friend Johnny Pierce and the good folks at Nurturing Faith (NurturingFaith.net) in Macon, Ga., have published the 8th Annual Shurden Lectures that I delivered last year at my law school alma mater, Stetson University in DeLand, Fla.
From the March 2014 Report from the Capital
Concerns about discrimination doom Arizona legislation
By K. Hollyn Hollman, General Counsel
How did Arizona legislation that looked pretty similar to many other religious freedom statutes grab the national spotlight and get characterized by some as a license to discriminate?
