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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Bishop T.D. Jakes stepped off the pulpit in November 2024 in the middle of a sermon, the entire Black church world held ...

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, ...

During the Obama administration, a popular meme among online pundits and analysts concerned what Dartmouth political scientist Brenden Nyhan dubbed the “Green Lantern Theory” of politics, which held ...

With the presidential election a dead heat and many other races too close to call, hundreds of religious leaders nationwide are urging their congregations to vote for a specific candidate. They break ...

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 ...

Spending nine years on the preaching team of All Souls, Langham Place was a rare privilege. A nerve-wracking one, too. Especially when Uncle John (Stott) was in the congregation! But as I've reflected ...