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Preaching Politics 0
- January/February 2025
- January 1, 2025
Does a 70-year-old tax code provision known as the Johnson Amendment protect America’s houses of worship? Or unconstitutionally restrain them? Local church pastor Stephen Cook provides a view from the pulpit. The Apostle Paul may have been the original church gossip. Allow me to explain. “Gossip,” before it came to its current meaning, had a
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Prayers in Florida 0
- September/October 2012
- September 1, 2012
In early March the Florida legislature passed SB 98, a bill authorizing public school districts to adopt policies that would encourage prayer at secondary school events. Specifically the bill authorizes the use of student-led "inspirational messages, including. . . prayers of invocation or benediction." School events include "school commencement exercises or any other noncompulsory student
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Prayer, Football, and Civil Religion in Texas 0
- November/December 2000
- November 1, 2000
What's up with prayer and football in Texas and across the South? The big issue during the 1999 season was not the sometimes observed prayer in the end zones by players, but prayer over the intercom before games. In midseason the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that would decide whether such prayers
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Pray Tell 0
- March/April 2008
- March 1, 2008
If it were possible for a politician to sue voters for religious discrimination, Mitt Romney would have an open-and-shut case against the Republican electorate. Here is a man possessing all the known qualifications for the job of GOP presidential nominee—strong communication skills, a successful governorship, total agreement on every issue, Reaganesque hair—and yet he may
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Powerless Prayer 0
- March/April 2014
- March 1, 2014
Despite the First Amendment’s ban on government establishments of religion, opening government meetings with prayer is a longstanding tradition in many American communities. Indeed, in Marsh v. Chambers (1983) the U.S. Supreme Court upheld chaplain-led prayers before the Nebraska state legislature after a Nebraska lawmaker challenged the prayers as an unconstitutional advancement of religion. The
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Power in Prayer 0
- Uncategorized
- November 1, 2014
The battle for religious liberty is fought perhaps more often in the quiet corners than on the grand stage. No one knows this better than Pastor Eliezer Benavides, associate director of the Church State Council, who began handling primarily Sabbath accommodation cases for the Church State Council in 2006. At 87 years old, Pastor Benavides,
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