Fundamentalist worldview is rigid and binary. It opposes public education and treats government as a tool for moral coercion. By Eric Lane, For the Express-News, July 24, 2025 This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the courtroomspectacle in which a young teacher in Tennessee was put on trial for teaching evolution.Though John Scopes was convicted,…
On October 5, 2020 Dr. Caron Richard “Dick” Waits, past Chairman of the Economics Department at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, passed away. For nearly a decade, he served as Treasurer of our Chapter until February 2019 when, due to health reasons, he moved to New Braunfels, TX to be closer to family. We…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On October 7, 1801, the Danbury Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut sent a letter to the newly elected President Thomas Jefferson, expressing concern over the lack in their state constitution of explicit protection of religious liberty, and against a government establishment of religion. At the time, they were being persecuted because they did not…