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...
Does it really matter whether the president goes to church? The Constitution says there shall be no "religious test," so perhaps Sunday morning should be the one day each week when the president gets to sleep in. He certainly works hard enough. But before he...
Metro Baptist Church in New York City recently conducted a Sunday service devoted to religious liberty. Taking advantage of a guest sermon by J. Brent Walker, they added elements to their service focusing on religious liberty. Some were adapted from resources on the...
Special to the Tribune For the next six months, people on the roads of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties will rumble past billboard ads making false claims and misleading assertions about our country's history and commitment to religious freedom. One ad even...
