Today at noon, an estimated 500 people will gather at the state Capitol in Raleigh for the annual National Day of Prayer. As in years past, they'll pray for the government and its elected officials, for the school system, for the military and for families —...
"On Faith" is an online conversation about religion conducted by The Washington Post and Newsweek. BJC Executive Director J. Brent Walker serves as a panelist on the site and had the following response to this question: Thursday is that National Day of...
Congress' official designation and the President's predictable proclamation of a National Day of prayer is misguided and unnecessary, says a Washington, D.C.-based church-state organization. J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee...
Start checking your mailbox for the April edition of Report from the Capital. In this month’s edition, staff counsel James Gibson explains the religious display cases currently making their way through the courts and executive director Brent Walker reviews a...
The Alabama Legislature is considering a joint resolution that would designate Easter Week as “Christian Heritage Week.” Ostensibly designed to recognize Christianity’s influence on American history, the resolution is actually an attack on religious...
