The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty wants to make sure a provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA,” also called the “stimulus package” passed by Congress in February) is implemented the way it is...
By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman The BJC does not take a position on the legal status of same-sex unions. The increasingly frequent and intense claims linking gay rights and religious liberty, however, require attention. Charges that one’s adversaries violate...
Let me begin this retrospective on the 19-year court tenure of Justice David Souter by returning to an earlier prognostication. In November 1990, after Justice Souter’s confirmation and on the eve of his service on the U.S. Supreme Court, I wrote the following in...
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...
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...