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Navigating LGTBQ Issues in the Local Church
LGBTQ advocates often use civil and criminal courts to pressure and silence religious objectors. Consequently, churches should be proactive in anticipating and addressing practical and legal challenges coming with rapid...
Navigating LGTBQ Issues in the Local Church
LGBTQ advocates often use civil and criminal courts to pressure and silence religious objectors. Consequently, churches should be proactive in anticipating and addressing practical and legal challenges coming with rapid...
To Incorporate or Not to Incorporate?
Religious congregations have essentially two options regarding legal organization. First, they can exist as informal associations, i.e., bodies of persons acting together in pursuit of a common enterprise, but without...
To Incorporate or Not to Incorporate?
Religious congregations have essentially two options regarding legal organization. First, they can exist as informal associations, i.e., bodies of persons acting together in pursuit of a common enterprise, but without...
On the Importance of Bylaws
Perhaps many Christians do not understand the importance of bylaws. Some perceive them as a legal formality foisted upon churches as a consequence of incorporation, a sort of “necessary evil”...
On the Importance of Bylaws
Perhaps many Christians do not understand the importance of bylaws. Some perceive them as a legal formality foisted upon churches as a consequence of incorporation, a sort of “necessary evil”...