In Sunday's NYTimes, op-ed contributor Katherine Stewart discusses the use of her young daughter's public school as a house of worship. She attended a service for herself, and found that the minister discusses praying for the names of children –...
This year marks the BJC’s 75th year of defending and extending religious liberty for all, a milestone we celebrated at our annual Religious Liberty Council luncheon. The luncheon was held in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s General Assembly in...
As a member of the "Church of Body Modification," a high school student in Johnston County, North Carolina won't be asked to remove a stud in her nose to attend school, after a settlement was reached with the school board earlier this week to...
RNS' Adelle Banks reports on a Gallup survey indicating that 70% of Egyptians want religious leaders to play only an indirect role in a new government as opposed to the 14% that believe clerics should have create law. Even beyond this rejection of theocracy, the...
Opponents of the construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee were issued a clear defeat in court last month. They argued that Islam was not a religion, that its followers are inherently anti-American, that the mere presence of an Islamic house of worship poses...
