PollingReport.com offers a collection of polls on Americans’ opinions on politics and religion.

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has this article on electioneering by houses of worship and the Religious Right.

Read an article from the First Amendment Center about churches challenging the IRS law.

Read “Pre-Election Analysis: Politics in the Pulpit” from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Read a briefing on the rules regarding charities, churches and politics.

Read the full IRS rules for charities on political and lobbying activity.

Read the Internal Revenue Service’s rules on tax exemption for religious groups.

Jimmy Dorrell is co-founder and executive director of Mission Waco, a ministry to empower the poor, mobilize middle-class Americans and address systematic social injustices. He is pastor of Church Under the Bridge and also teaches classes at Baylor University and Truett Seminary in Waco.

Nancy Ammerman is professor of sociology at Boston University and a leading expert on congregational dynamics, especially in mainline Protestantism. She is the author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life and Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners. She is also an expert on religious movements and has written about the rise of fundamentalism.