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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 ...
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...
A tax law professor discusses the IRS stance that allows churches to endorse candidates and whether the LDS Church would ever ...
Repealing a 71 year-old law, the IRS is now allowing churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status after a federal ...
Many people don’t want their religious leaders to tell them how to vote. In the current deeply divided political moment, that ...
To let our pulpits become partisan and communion a chance for campaigning is idolatry, centering power and politicians out of a love for money.
The Black church has always been more than a place of worship—it’s been a hub for liberation and justice. From slavery to ...
Clergy urged to refrain from backing candidates in pulpit, despite change in federal-tax policy that now allows them to do so ...
The majority of the Founders ... were determined to prevent the official establishment of any single national denomination or religion.
In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...
There is nothing preventing the IRS from deciding to enforce the Johnson Amendment again and perhaps doing so selectively.