As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...

I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of jeopardizing my church’s tax exempt status that kept me quiet. It was fear of God ...

The IRS gutted the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited religious institutions from endorsing candidates without losing their tax-exempt status. They were doing it anyway.The post Politics from the pul ...

Clergy urged to refrain from backing candidates in pulpit, despite change in federal-tax policy that now allows them to do so ...

Many want to separate the legislator from the legislation, the policymaker from the policy, and the budget from the budget makers. But faith and public life are inevitably intertwined, and pastors ...

The Black church has always been more than a place of worship—it’s been a hub for liberation and justice. From slavery to ...

"Granting this carve-out to churches might seem narrow, but the exemption would lay the groundwork for future efforts to expand partisan activity across the nonprofit sector," Marie Ellis of the ...

I write this column having just received the news that the IRS has asked a judge to create an exception to the Johnson ...

Rabbis and other clergy members in the United States may endorse candidates from the pulpit without jeopardizing their house of worship’s tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service has decreed.

It’s a slippery slope when faith leaders become partisan, teaching their folks to be devoted, not to God, but to a particular ...

By Tom Chapman For The Catholic Messenger The Iowa Catholic Conference, which is the public policy voice for Iowa’s bishops, ...