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The targeting of religious minorities.
The rise of Christian nationalism.
The politicization of houses of worship.
BJC brings people together to tackle today’s serious threats to religious liberty.
bjconline.org
The rise of Christian nationalism.
The politicization of houses of worship.
BJC brings people together to tackle today’s serious threats to religious liberty.
bjconline.org
Across Texas, people of faith are speaking up for students’ religious freedom & there’s still time to join them.
Together, we can protect every student’s freedom to follow their own conscience. Because public schools are not Sunday schools.
Get involved: https://loom.ly/aA9d338
Together, we can protect every student’s freedom to follow their own conscience. Because public schools are not Sunday schools.
Get involved: https://loom.ly/aA9d338
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Across Texas, people of faith are speaking up for students’ religious freedom & there’s still time to join them.
Together, we can protect every student’s freedom to follow their own conscience. Because public schools are not Sunday schools.
Get involved: https://loom.ly/aA9d338
Together, we can protect every student’s freedom to follow their own conscience. Because public schools are not Sunday schools.
Get involved: https://loom.ly/aA9d338
The BJC Fellows program brings together emerging leaders who care deeply about religious freedom, democracy, and building a society where everyone belongs. Fellows gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and the opportunity to make a real impact.
Apply: BJConline.org/fellows/
Apply: BJConline.org/fellows/
January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The BJC Fellows program brings together emerging leaders who care deeply about religious freedom, democracy, and building a society where everyone belongs. Fellows gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and the opportunity to make a real impact.
Apply: BJConline.org/fellows/
Apply: BJConline.org/fellows/
As we begin a new year, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social is starting her sabbatical.
Read her entire column on our website, and check out the other items in our winter magazine!
https://loom.ly/SzKoSVc
Read her entire column on our website, and check out the other items in our winter magazine!
https://loom.ly/SzKoSVc
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
As we begin a new year, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social is starting her sabbatical.
Read her entire column on our website, and check out the other items in our winter magazine!
https://loom.ly/SzKoSVc
Read her entire column on our website, and check out the other items in our winter magazine!
https://loom.ly/SzKoSVc
Religious freedom doesn’t sustain itself. It must be taught, practiced, and passed on.
Your generosity ensures that young advocates know their faith freedom is protected, and it enables them to extend that protection to others.
Donate by December 31.
https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Your generosity ensures that young advocates know their faith freedom is protected, and it enables them to extend that protection to others.
Donate by December 31.
https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
December 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Religious freedom doesn’t sustain itself. It must be taught, practiced, and passed on.
Your generosity ensures that young advocates know their faith freedom is protected, and it enables them to extend that protection to others.
Donate by December 31.
https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Your generosity ensures that young advocates know their faith freedom is protected, and it enables them to extend that protection to others.
Donate by December 31.
https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Across the country, people of faith are rising up to say: Our faith is not a weapon, it’s a witness. This work doesn’t happen by accident,
Make a year-end gift today and help build a just society where everyone belongs.
Give now: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Make a year-end gift today and help build a just society where everyone belongs.
Give now: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Across the country, people of faith are rising up to say: Our faith is not a weapon, it’s a witness. This work doesn’t happen by accident,
Make a year-end gift today and help build a just society where everyone belongs.
Give now: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Make a year-end gift today and help build a just society where everyone belongs.
Give now: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Today, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, who was born in humility, not power. His way is marked by love, not force.
May this season remind us that faith is a gift freely chosen, never imposed, and that every person deserves the freedom to follow their own conscience.
May this season remind us that faith is a gift freely chosen, never imposed, and that every person deserves the freedom to follow their own conscience.
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, who was born in humility, not power. His way is marked by love, not force.
May this season remind us that faith is a gift freely chosen, never imposed, and that every person deserves the freedom to follow their own conscience.
May this season remind us that faith is a gift freely chosen, never imposed, and that every person deserves the freedom to follow their own conscience.
Faith shines brightest through compassion, service, and community, not coercive power.
Your gift helps fuel our work to promote democracy and pluralism, protect faith freedom for all, and resist Christian nationalism.
Give here: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Your gift helps fuel our work to promote democracy and pluralism, protect faith freedom for all, and resist Christian nationalism.
Give here: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Faith shines brightest through compassion, service, and community, not coercive power.
Your gift helps fuel our work to promote democracy and pluralism, protect faith freedom for all, and resist Christian nationalism.
Give here: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
Your gift helps fuel our work to promote democracy and pluralism, protect faith freedom for all, and resist Christian nationalism.
Give here: https://loom.ly/jVJWNSM
On our last Respecting Religion #podcast of 2025, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social & Holly Hollman talk about some of the news from the past week – including the travel ban expansion, attacks around the world, and an appearance by Amanda before Congress to talk about protecting civil society.
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On our last Respecting Religion #podcast of 2025, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social & Holly Hollman talk about some of the news from the past week – including the travel ban expansion, attacks around the world, and an appearance by Amanda before Congress to talk about protecting civil society.
BJC mourns the tragic loss of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
In January 2024, Rob joined @AmandaTylerBJC on Respecting Religion to discuss “God & Country,” his documentary about the growing threat of Christian nationalism.
Listen: https://loom.ly/zXJkNb
In January 2024, Rob joined @AmandaTylerBJC on Respecting Religion to discuss “God & Country,” his documentary about the growing threat of Christian nationalism.
Listen: https://loom.ly/zXJkNb
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BJC mourns the tragic loss of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
In January 2024, Rob joined @AmandaTylerBJC on Respecting Religion to discuss “God & Country,” his documentary about the growing threat of Christian nationalism.
Listen: https://loom.ly/zXJkNb
In January 2024, Rob joined @AmandaTylerBJC on Respecting Religion to discuss “God & Country,” his documentary about the growing threat of Christian nationalism.
Listen: https://loom.ly/zXJkNb
Calling all Texas faith leaders! Add your name to our letter for clergy to say no to the Texas state-organized prayer in school law.
We believe faith is strongest when it is chosen freely, not directed by the government. Learn more and get involved at BJConline.org/stateorganizedprayer/
We believe faith is strongest when it is chosen freely, not directed by the government. Learn more and get involved at BJConline.org/stateorganizedprayer/
December 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Calling all Texas faith leaders! Add your name to our letter for clergy to say no to the Texas state-organized prayer in school law.
We believe faith is strongest when it is chosen freely, not directed by the government. Learn more and get involved at BJConline.org/stateorganizedprayer/
We believe faith is strongest when it is chosen freely, not directed by the government. Learn more and get involved at BJConline.org/stateorganizedprayer/
@amandatylerbjc.bsky.social recently published an op-ed in @dallasnews.com warning against a proposed legal settlement that would weaken the Johnson Amendment.
Read her full piece: https://loom.ly/0FlB_4U
Read her full piece: https://loom.ly/0FlB_4U
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@amandatylerbjc.bsky.social recently published an op-ed in @dallasnews.com warning against a proposed legal settlement that would weaken the Johnson Amendment.
Read her full piece: https://loom.ly/0FlB_4U
Read her full piece: https://loom.ly/0FlB_4U
BJC is thrilled to welcome the Rev. Dr. Katie Callaway as our new Director of Development!
Katie brings deep experience in fundraising, ministry, and justice work, seeing development as both storytelling and a way to advance faith freedom for all.
More: https://loom.ly/Jka1RVc
Katie brings deep experience in fundraising, ministry, and justice work, seeing development as both storytelling and a way to advance faith freedom for all.
More: https://loom.ly/Jka1RVc
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
BJC is thrilled to welcome the Rev. Dr. Katie Callaway as our new Director of Development!
Katie brings deep experience in fundraising, ministry, and justice work, seeing development as both storytelling and a way to advance faith freedom for all.
More: https://loom.ly/Jka1RVc
Katie brings deep experience in fundraising, ministry, and justice work, seeing development as both storytelling and a way to advance faith freedom for all.
More: https://loom.ly/Jka1RVc
Respecting Religion, Live: Dec 4.
The news is moving fast, and Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman are ready to dig in. This week’s episode of Respecting Religion will be broadcast LIVE as they unpack the latest developments shaping faith freedom for all.
https://loom.ly/ch9_DWE
The news is moving fast, and Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman are ready to dig in. This week’s episode of Respecting Religion will be broadcast LIVE as they unpack the latest developments shaping faith freedom for all.
https://loom.ly/ch9_DWE
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Respecting Religion, Live: Dec 4.
The news is moving fast, and Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman are ready to dig in. This week’s episode of Respecting Religion will be broadcast LIVE as they unpack the latest developments shaping faith freedom for all.
https://loom.ly/ch9_DWE
The news is moving fast, and Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman are ready to dig in. This week’s episode of Respecting Religion will be broadcast LIVE as they unpack the latest developments shaping faith freedom for all.
https://loom.ly/ch9_DWE
The BJC Fellows Program is an intensive religious liberty cohort experience for young professionals.
BJC Fellows come from every background, urban and rural, many faiths and none, united by a calling to defend religious liberty.
Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/E7hV95U
BJC Fellows come from every background, urban and rural, many faiths and none, united by a calling to defend religious liberty.
Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/E7hV95U
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The BJC Fellows Program is an intensive religious liberty cohort experience for young professionals.
BJC Fellows come from every background, urban and rural, many faiths and none, united by a calling to defend religious liberty.
Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/E7hV95U
BJC Fellows come from every background, urban and rural, many faiths and none, united by a calling to defend religious liberty.
Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/E7hV95U
Your support fuels BJC’s work to protect religious liberty for all people.
From defending religious minorities to confronting Christian nationalism with courage and compassion, your support makes it all possible.
Give here: https://loom.ly/niFGQ4Q
#GivingTuesday
From defending religious minorities to confronting Christian nationalism with courage and compassion, your support makes it all possible.
Give here: https://loom.ly/niFGQ4Q
#GivingTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Your support fuels BJC’s work to protect religious liberty for all people.
From defending religious minorities to confronting Christian nationalism with courage and compassion, your support makes it all possible.
Give here: https://loom.ly/niFGQ4Q
#GivingTuesday
From defending religious minorities to confronting Christian nationalism with courage and compassion, your support makes it all possible.
Give here: https://loom.ly/niFGQ4Q
#GivingTuesday
SCOTUS seemed skeptical this week when hearing a religious freedom case. On the Respecting Religion #podcast, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social & Holly Hollman examine the arguments in a case about a remedy available to a prisoner after his religious freedom was violated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZd...
SCOTUS hears Landor v. Louisiana Dept. of Corrections: S7, Ep. 05 of Respecting Religion
YouTube video by BJC
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November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
SCOTUS seemed skeptical this week when hearing a religious freedom case. On the Respecting Religion #podcast, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social & Holly Hollman examine the arguments in a case about a remedy available to a prisoner after his religious freedom was violated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZd...
Marriage equality and religious liberty go hand in hand.
Join Attorney General Dana Nessel for a conversation on the threats to marriage equality and what we can do to protect it.
Register: https://bit.ly/jfasdnessel
Join Attorney General Dana Nessel for a conversation on the threats to marriage equality and what we can do to protect it.
Register: https://bit.ly/jfasdnessel
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Marriage equality and religious liberty go hand in hand.
Join Attorney General Dana Nessel for a conversation on the threats to marriage equality and what we can do to protect it.
Register: https://bit.ly/jfasdnessel
Join Attorney General Dana Nessel for a conversation on the threats to marriage equality and what we can do to protect it.
Register: https://bit.ly/jfasdnessel
A Louisiana man was forcibly shaved in prison, violating his religious freedom as a Rastafarian. BJC joined a diverse coalition urging SCOTUS to ensure that individuals like Damon Landor can seek monetary damages when the harm is done
Read more: https://loom.ly/Mq-FD7w
Read more: https://loom.ly/Mq-FD7w
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A Louisiana man was forcibly shaved in prison, violating his religious freedom as a Rastafarian. BJC joined a diverse coalition urging SCOTUS to ensure that individuals like Damon Landor can seek monetary damages when the harm is done
Read more: https://loom.ly/Mq-FD7w
Read more: https://loom.ly/Mq-FD7w
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Minneapolis and St. Paul for the 21st Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures. The theme this year was “Criminalizing Mercy: Sanctuary and Government Repression of Migrant Justice.”
More here: BJCconline.org/shurdenlectures/
More here: BJCconline.org/shurdenlectures/
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Minneapolis and St. Paul for the 21st Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures. The theme this year was “Criminalizing Mercy: Sanctuary and Government Repression of Migrant Justice.”
More here: BJCconline.org/shurdenlectures/
More here: BJCconline.org/shurdenlectures/
Our new merch is here!
These aren’t just shirts or totes, they’re conversation starters. They help you say that Christians are showing up differently. To serve our neighbors, to protect religious freedom for everyone, and to build community.
Shop here: impactmerch.com/bjc-cacn
These aren’t just shirts or totes, they’re conversation starters. They help you say that Christians are showing up differently. To serve our neighbors, to protect religious freedom for everyone, and to build community.
Shop here: impactmerch.com/bjc-cacn
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our new merch is here!
These aren’t just shirts or totes, they’re conversation starters. They help you say that Christians are showing up differently. To serve our neighbors, to protect religious freedom for everyone, and to build community.
Shop here: impactmerch.com/bjc-cacn
These aren’t just shirts or totes, they’re conversation starters. They help you say that Christians are showing up differently. To serve our neighbors, to protect religious freedom for everyone, and to build community.
Shop here: impactmerch.com/bjc-cacn
Behind every policy analysis, statement, and campaign is a team of people who care deeply about protecting religious freedom for everyone and promoting our pluralistic democracy. To learn more and support our work, visit our website: BJConline.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Behind every policy analysis, statement, and campaign is a team of people who care deeply about protecting religious freedom for everyone and promoting our pluralistic democracy. To learn more and support our work, visit our website: BJConline.org
Jesus was political, but he wasn’t partisan. In this week’s episode of the Respecting Religion #podcast, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social and Holly look at how the “Johnson Amendment” protects the nonpartisanship of nonprofits – including houses of worship.
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Jesus was political, but he wasn’t partisan. In this week’s episode of the Respecting Religion #podcast, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social and Holly look at how the “Johnson Amendment” protects the nonpartisanship of nonprofits – including houses of worship.
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We’re celebrating 1 year of How to End Christian Nationalism by BJC’s Executive Director, Amanda Tyler — with a book giveaway!
Follow @endcn.bsky.social, @@bjconthehill.bsky.social & @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, then like + comment who you’d share it with. (only open to U.S. residents age 18+)
Follow @endcn.bsky.social, @@bjconthehill.bsky.social & @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, then like + comment who you’d share it with. (only open to U.S. residents age 18+)
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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With so much news coming out at a breakneck speed, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social and Holly are broadcasting this week’s Respecting Religion podcast LIVE on Thursday, October 23, at 11 a.m. ET / 10 a.m. CT.
Make plans to tune in on Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram:
www.youtube.com/live/FfhOrjU...
Make plans to tune in on Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram:
www.youtube.com/live/FfhOrjU...
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
With so much news coming out at a breakneck speed, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social and Holly are broadcasting this week’s Respecting Religion podcast LIVE on Thursday, October 23, at 11 a.m. ET / 10 a.m. CT.
Make plans to tune in on Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram:
www.youtube.com/live/FfhOrjU...
Make plans to tune in on Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram:
www.youtube.com/live/FfhOrjU...
Hear the stories being shared from people of faith during these tumultuous times. The Rev. Janna Louie, BJC’s chief of staff, shares a reflection from Los Angeles in an era of ICE raids.
Read her reflection in our latest magazine: https://loom.ly/62ifhXA
Read her reflection in our latest magazine: https://loom.ly/62ifhXA
October 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Hear the stories being shared from people of faith during these tumultuous times. The Rev. Janna Louie, BJC’s chief of staff, shares a reflection from Los Angeles in an era of ICE raids.
Read her reflection in our latest magazine: https://loom.ly/62ifhXA
Read her reflection in our latest magazine: https://loom.ly/62ifhXA