{"id":14043,"date":"2025-12-28T04:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:31:38","slug":"should-churches-and-pastors-share-politics-from-the-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14043","title":{"rendered":"Should churches and pastors share politics from the pulpit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/> By  Billy HallowellThursday, December 25, 2025<span class=\"photo-des\">Getty Images <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Should Christians speak about candidates and politics from the pulpit? That&#8217;s the topic of today&#8217;s &#8220;The Inside Story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Billy Hallowell sits down with Dr. Richard Land, executive editor of The Christian Post. Dr. Land provides a history of the Johnson Amendment, why many churches have opted not to speak about politics, and what the proper balance on the issue might look like.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the episode:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Inside Story\u201d takes you behind the headlines of the biggest faith, culture, and political headlines of the week. In 15 minutes or less, Christian Post staff writers and editors will help you navigate and understand what\u2019s driving each story, the issues at play \u2014 and why it all matters. <\/p>\n<p>Listen to more Christian podcasts today on the Edifi app \u2014 and be sure to subscribe to The Inside Story on your favorite platforms:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Billy HallowellThursday, December 25, 2025Getty Images Should Christians speak about candidates and politics from the pulpit? That&#8217;s the topic of today&#8217;s &#8220;The Inside Story.&#8221; Billy Hallowell sits down with Dr. Richard Land, executive editor of The Christian Post. Dr. Land provides a history of the Johnson Amendment, why many churches have opted not to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[292,716,242,2702,350],"class_list":["post-14043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-living","tag-churches","tag-pastors","tag-politics","tag-pulpit","tag-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}