In this audio interview with podcast host Tony Gill, Richard Hammar says churches need to set policies on counseling to help protect the church. For further insights into the issues covered in this interview, see "Clergy, Counseling, and Criminal Liability" and Keeping Your Counseling Ministry Safe.

This interview is excerpted with permission from a podcast titled "Richard Hammar on Churches, Taxes, Donations, and Liability," one in a series of educational podcasts sponsored by Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. Other excerpts from the interview with Hammar will be featured in future blog posts.

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