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Megachurches

SOURCE: Texas Tribune
10/30/2022

Has the IRS Abandoned Enforcing Ban on Church Political Activity?

Evangelical megachurches are increasingly confident that they can directly intervene in political races, declaring one candidate "ordained" and another "demonic," without anyone doing anything about it.

SOURCE: Current
8/18/2021

Megachurches like John MacArthur's Led Evangelical Resistance to COVID Mandates

by John Fea

Historian John Fea rounds up recent writing on the role of star pastors in directing some evangelical churches toward resistance to pandemic measures while other churches engaged with meeting their members' health needs.