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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Armed with a handful of warmed-over sermons and big dreams to grow a small church, the newly ordained Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrived at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in ...