Pulpit

So it wasn't much of a stretch for Pastor Johnson -- whose father, the Rev. Ron Johnson Sr., founded the church in 1981 -- to volunteer earlier this year when the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal-aid organization based in Scottsdale, Ariz., was recruiting ministers for what it called the Pulpit Initiative.

Provoking the IRS, 2008

... it wasn't much of a stretch for Pastor Johnson ... to volunteer earlier this year when the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal-aid organization based in Scottsdale, Ariz., was recruiting ministers for what it called the Pulpit Initiative.

ADF Alliance Alert 2008

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and ...

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates ABC News 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and ...

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates ABC News 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and cannot be said in church.

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates ABC News 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and cannot be said in church.

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates ABC News 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and cannot be said in church.

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and cannot be said in church.

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates ABC News 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and cannot be said in church.

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can and ...

'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates ABC News 2010