{"id":25177,"date":"2025-07-22T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=25177"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:43:10","slug":"from-ministry-and-worship-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/2025\/07\/22\/from-ministry-and-worship-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ministry and Worship Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">A recent court decision now allows religious bodies to endorse political candidates and take part in partisan politics without the threat of losing their tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This ruling does not change meeting's long-standing practice of eschewing partisan politics within meetings for worship, during announcements at rise of meeting, or through our committees. Our tax-exempt status has never been a primary motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rather, our political advocacy arises from a deep concern for the general welfare and our hope for a world where everyone enjoys security and opportunities for joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Partisan politics requires taking sides. Our advocacy is based on our testimonies and advices.<em>&nbsp;Love one another<\/em>&nbsp;is our foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent court decision now allows religious bodies to endorse political candidates and take part in partisan politics without the threat of losing their tax-exempt status. This ruling does not change meeting&#8217;s long-standing practice of eschewing partisan politics within meetings for worship, during announcements at rise of meeting, or through our committees. Our tax-exempt status [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[510,378],"tags":[501,493],"class_list":["post-25177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-and-worship","category-testimonies","tag-current","tag-ministry-and-worship"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 21:57:07","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[346],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}