The BJC offers fall, spring and summer internships to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as those who have finished their degree program.

BJC interns work approximately 35 hours per week doing work similar to that of other Washington interns. Much of it is administrative work and constituent services, but there is also ample opportunity to exercise skills and indulge interests, such as writing, organizing, conducting research or contributing to coalition work. The intern duties also involve routine office work, running errands and other necessary, but somewhat mundane, chores.

Compensation comes in the form of a stipend, paid monthly, and housing on Capitol Hill.

Interning for the BJC will not only expose participants to issues concerning religious freedom and the separation of church and state, but also will allow them to live on Capitol Hill and to experience the Washington scene first hand.

To apply for the internship program, e-mail a letter of interest and resume to BJC Executive Director J. Brent Walker at bwalker@BJConline.org.

Moyers Scholar Program

Beginning in the spring of 2006, graduate students at Wake Forest University Divinity School in Winston-Salem, N.C., may apply for the Moyers Scholar program, which entitles one recipient per year to a semester internship at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C. In July 2005, James and Marilyn Dunn donated $100,000 to the endowment fund, which will be managed by the divinity school at Wake Forest University with the proceeds going to the scholar program at the BJC.