“Last lion” is how Peter Canellos characterized Sen. Edward Kennedy, in the title of a new book he and a team of Boston Globe reporters wrote earlier this year. The book is aptly named. Indeed, Sen. Kennedy was known as the lion of the Senate for much of...
Baptist Joint Committee Executive Director J. Brent Walker is a panelist for The Washington Post/ Newsweek online conversation, "On Faith." Each week panelists have the opportunity to answer a question posed by Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn, the moderators of...
The confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor shed little light on her thinking about religious liberty. In fact, beyond a handful of topics, there was little substantive discussion on constitutional matters. Like other recent confirmation...
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...
Before the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor began, the Baptist Joint Committee’s legal staff completed a comprehensive analysis of Judge Sotomayor’s written opinions in cases involving the First Amendment’s protection of the free...
