Associated Baptist Press / Click here to read the story on the ABP website CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — The culture warriors who contend that the United States is a “Christian nation” gravely endanger freedoms sacred to both Christianity and the nation, Mercer...
Sightings / By Martin E. Marty Days ago, the Supreme Court’s currently-standard 5-4 majority ruled that “the Mojave Cross,” a contested war memorial in the desert of California, may stand. The case itself is too complicated – it involved lower...
Tallahassee Democrat / Op-ed by J. Brent Walker April 22, 2010 Click here to read the article on the Tallahassee Democrat’s website. As someone who was reared, educated, practiced law and lived the first 35 years of my life in Florida before following my calling...
Associated Baptist Press WASHINGTON (ABP) — With the Supreme Court’s oldest and longest-serving member announcing April 9 his retirement, advocates for strong church-state separation urged that Justice John Paul Stevens’ replacement be as devoted to preventing...
Religion News Service As Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens prepares for retirement, religious advocates are cheering his support of church-state separation and readying for the battle over his successor. Stevens, the court’s oldest justice at age 89, sent...
The Tennessean A nationwide atheist group is asking religious leaders to take Jesus’ advice and render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s — especially when it comes to taking the federal tax break on their housing. The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion...
