Dockery proposes keeping essentials and nonessentials in balance.

President resigns, alleging pastor plotted to sell school assets.

Republicans mock Obama's community organizing experience.

Is magnanimity the reputation of your church?

Maintaining church unity is challenging when politics is involved, but one pastor in Washington, D.C. is learning what it takes to reach across the aisle.

The beginning of the school year marks, at many churches, the beginning of a new season of ministry. Children get "promoted" to the next grade level—which in the church I grew up in, was a big deal.

"Father, we think that he has been prepared for such a time as this."

But Pence says it's ancient history.