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Category Archives: Church Finances and Business
Legal Conclusions from Licking Baptist Church, Part 3
An element of the Licking Baptist Church case that’s not been commented on in the media is the significance of 1 Corinthians 6 on such disputes — (1Co 6:1-8 ESV) When one of you has a grievance against another, does … Continue reading
Legal Conclusions from Licking Baptist Church, Part 2
As we considered in the last post, after the girls raped or molested by the associate pastor of the Licking Baptist Church were disfellowshipped by the church, the pastor pled guilty and served seven years in prison. The girls, when … Continue reading
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Legal Conclusions from Licking Baptist Church, Part 1
Licking Baptist Church is a small congregation in Hebron, Ohio, founded in 1807. It has no website that I can find. And some terrible things happened there. As one blogger explains, In 2005, Pastor Lonnie “Joe” Aleshire Jr. admitted to … Continue reading
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Church Finances and Business: The Housing Allowance Is Only for One House
In Commissioner v. Driscoll (not Mark Driscoll of the Mars Hill Church in Seattle fame), the federal Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that a minister may claim the housing allowance exclusion for only one house.
Posted in Church Finances and Business, Uncategorized
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Church Finances and Business: The Supreme Court and the Ministerial Exemption
The US Supreme Court recently ruled unanimously in favor of the so-called “ministerial exception” for churches in HOSANNA-TABOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL v. EEOC. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination due to a disability. However, the courts hold … Continue reading
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Taxes for Missionaries: IRS Gives Grace for Failure to File an FBAR
A “United States person” is required to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBAR”) if the citizen has a financial interest in or signature authority or other authority over any financial account in a foreign country, if the … Continue reading
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Health Insurance for Ministers
Occasionally, I open the pages of the blog to reader to present information that I think may be of great value to many of the readers. At my suggestion, reader Steven Sarff has written a post describing one means by which … Continue reading
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The Housing Allowance: Who Qualifies?
[This is an usually long post, but I couldn’t think of a way to split it. It’s a complicated topic.] For what ought to be a very simple concept, the housing allowance can be surprisingly difficult to apply in a … Continue reading
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The Housing Allowance: May a Female Children’s Minister Claim the Housing Allowance?
Increasingly, Churches of Christ are hiring women as “ministers” — typically as children’s ministers but also in other capacities. This gives rise to the question: May they claim the housing allowance? The Internal Revenue Code allows a “minister of the … Continue reading
Posted in Taxes, Uncategorized
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On Building a Church Building
[Many, many years ago, I posted an extensive series of notes on chairing a building program. With so many churches having been destroyed by tornadoes and, I’m sure, more being destroyed by floods in the Mississippi Delta, I thought I … Continue reading
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