In Nehemiah 8:4, we witness the likely birth of the preaching pulpit when Ezra the scribe reads the Scriptures “on a high wooden platform built for the occasion.” Since then, pulpits have continued to ...

Fifty years ago, the civil rights movement had towering leaders. They were pastors who rose up to confront a powerful segregationist establishment and face down violent mobs. Their steel will, backed ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Clark County deputies are trying to figure out who broke through the windows of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Vancouver and set hymnals and the pulpit on fire.

In a fight for what an attorney called "the heart and soul" of a historic church, a local pastor has won a recent court battle to stay in the pulpit. The pastor, the Rev. Irvin L. Barrett, spoke of ...

In an entirely predictable development that is nonetheless a sad landmark in the ongoing collapse of church-state separation, the IRS has signed on to a court filing stipulating that it will no longer ...

How concerned are churches about security? Recently a Texas church ordered a bulletproof pulpit from a Missouri company that makes lecterns for the federal government. "Their fear was that an active ...