Reaching out to our Muslim neighbors

By J. Brent Walker, BJC Executive Director
A more mature understanding of Islam must be accompanied by a better relationship with Muslims. Here, it seems to me, Baptists are making major strides.

From the May 2013 Report from the Capital

County boards in Md., N.C. challenged over prayer

By Robert Dilday, The Religious Herald
County governing boards in Maryland and North Carolina are under fire for giving preference to Christian prayers in opening official meetings, joining a growing number of others in the region whose official prayer practices have been challenged.

From the May 2013 Report from the Capital

Ground Zero Cross: A display is not a shrine

By Charles C. Haynes, Director of the Newseum’s Religious Freedom Education Project
In March, a group of atheists in New York lost round one in their legal battle to keep the “Ground Zero Cross” out of the National September 11 Museum in lower Manhattan.

From the May 2013 Report from the Capital

Religious liberty and same-sex marriage

By K. Hollyn Hollman, BJC General Counsel
Many conversations about religious liberty and same-sex marriage are oversimplified. Too often what is lost in these understandably impassioned battles are the striking similarities between the claims of each side.

From the May 2013 Report from the Capital