Is the pulpit an appropriate place to discuss politics? Guilherme De Carvalho: The pulpit is an appropriate place for teaching biblical social doctrine and, where appropriate, the biblical foundations ...

Places of worship could lose tax-exempt status if found in violation of the Johnson Amendment, but the IRS has largely shied away from enforcing it. The 1954 Johnson Amendment, named for then-Texas ...

My colleague Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove's wonderful essay in The Jewish Week ("All A Rabbi Can Command These Days Is Respect," March 28) got me thinking even more deeply about the question of freedom of ...

As President Obama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address, many Americans still wonder why his eloquence on the campaign trail didn’t translate into a greater ability to build ...

At the Mennonite congregation I served as pastor for 16 years, I would perch my sermon manuscript on the face of the pulpit, sliding the pages across the smooth surface as I preached. I’m no longer a ...

Have you ever given into anger while you're in the pulpit? Or how about vanity? Have you ever stretched the truth while you were preaching in order to drive a point home—but then, inconveniently, the ...

Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. New this morning: The U.N. says Israel’s Gaza evacuation call could breach international law. Let’s talk about the American president’s ...

This is part of a series of stories about starting over, profiling people who, by choice or circumstance, reinvented or transformed themselves. Faith Whitmore was ordained as a pastor 30 years ago, ...