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Churches are now allowed to endorse political candidates. They should resist the temptation.
Christian nationalism-embracing media figures cheered the IRS’ statement that the Johnson Amendment — a decades-old ban on ...
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...
In a proposed legal settlement, the Internal Revenue Service has agreed that it will abandon enforcement of longstanding ...
A policy change by the Trump administration could have large impacts on churches throughout Montana and the country. And in a ...
In a potentially landmark shift announced July 7, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publicly acknowledged in a federal ...
The Internal Revenue Service is proposing to give churches a greater role in politics, allowing them to endorse or speak ...
Research shows that celebrity endorsements of political candidates are about as influential as those written by editorial ...
For an elected official’s take on the IRS’ change to the Johnson Amendment, we turned to Mahomet Republican state Sen. Chapin ...
During a faith luncheon with business leaders at the White House today, Donald Trump celebrates the recent announcement from the IRS that churches can now endorse a politics or a political candidate ...
The wall separating church and state in the United States may be fading, but the consequences are far from simple to predict.