Amanda Tyler to head Baptist religious liberty organization

Amanda R. Tyler will be the next executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, an organization committed to defending religious free exercise and separation of church and state.

Her predecessor, Brent Walker, retires at the end of this year.

“I feel called by God to do this work,” Tyler said. “There are many challenges and opportunities surrounding our First Freedom, such as increasing religious pluralism and the unease it can bring.”