In a court document filed earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service quietly revealed a significant break with long-standing practice: Churches will no longer risk their nonprofit status if ...

Over the years, traditional religious practice has declined in both the United States and globally, according to one ...

State Rep. Nate Schatzline speaks to a gathering of the True Texas Project, a conservative political group, just outside Fort Worth. Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline recently stood before a gathering of ...

The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen April 11, 2025. The IRS agreed in a July 7 court filing that a house of worship addressing its congregation about electoral politics in the ...

Why has Christianity in America become politically polarized? Ryan Burge, a political scientist and former pastor, says it is more complicated than you think, on this week’s episode of “Interesting ...

A recent proposed settlement in a federal court case out of Texas that would change how churches intersect with politics has become what supporters call restoring free speech rights and opponents call ...

Speaking from the main stage of his Fort Worth church last month, Pastor Landon Schott recalled a recent vision he’d had while praying near the U.S. Supreme Court, one in which a demonic serpent ...

“What we’re fighting for is democracy,” Texas state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins said Sunday. She didn’t say this at a news conference or in a committee hearing or a TV interview. She spoke the words ...

The baptismal bowl faces east from the entry of the church at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in downtown Sacramento. Can churches balance faith and politics? José Luis Villegas ...

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