Church-state Matters: Fighting for Religious Liberty in Our Nation's Capital

J. Brent Walker

ene 2008 · Mercer University Press

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This collection of essays, speeches, sermons, and congressional testimony provides a living history of the modern era the life of the Baptist Joint Committee, now in its eighth decade. It includes historical essays dealing with the role of the pulpit in the fight for American independence, the involvement of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in fashioning the First Amendment, and the contribution of numerous Baptists like Roger Williams and John Clarke to our understanding of the proper relationship between church and state. It also addresses specific religious liberty issues such as school vouchers, charitable choice, the Ten Commandments, religion in the public schools, attempts to amend the Constitution, including testimony he has given before House and Senate committees on these and other issues. Both a lawyer and an ordained minister, Walker writes on church-state cases decided by the Supreme Court and about the justices themselves as well the theological underpinning of his passion for religious liberty. Sermons he has preached in Baptist pulpits across the land are also included. - Publisher.

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J. BRENT WALKER, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee, is both a member of the Supreme Court Bar and an ordained minister. Walker earned BA and MA degrees from the University of Florida and holds a JD degree from Stetson University College of Law and an MDiv from Southern Seminary. Walker has been published widely and routinely provides commentary on church-state issues in the national media.