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An Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) court has found a bishop who led a chaplains’ group out of the conservative denomination guilty of causing schism and abusing the power of his office. The Aug. 19 final judgment against Bishop Derek Jones sends the case to ACNA’s College of Bishops for sentencing, after a 30-day […]
A decade after her farewell tour, multi-Grammy-winning Christian singer Sandi Patty is out with a new song and has plans for another album next year. Patty, who turned 70 in July, said the song, “The Voice I Have Now,” was an ideal match for her vocal chords and her station in life. “It’s the perfect […]
An itinerant minister has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, after a Tennessee jury found him guilty Aug. 17 of child rape and other sex crimes. He faces sentencing for further crimes in November, as does his wife, who was convicted of facilitating his crimes. Benjamin Garlick, 35, was found guilty of multiple […]
Online conservative Christian leaders are rallying to defend one of their own who has been accused of “habitual and systemic” plagiarism. An anonymous letter, first published by the polemical Christian site Protestia, accused Southern Baptist Pastor Tom Buck of stealing from Preaching the Word, a commentary series edited by R. Kent Hughes. The letter documented […]
A Texas appeals court dismissed many of Cindy and Jerry Clemishire’s claims against Gateway Church and three elders Wednesday, ruling that the First Amendment bars judges from getting involved. A companion ruling also dismissed most claims against former Gateway pastor Robert Morris and all claims against his wife, Deborah Morris. The court cited the church-autonomy […]
A 20-year-old college student died Saturday during a missionary training exercise run by Spurgeon College’s controversial Fusion program, which some have called extreme. Sheriff’s deputies and fire department paramedics responded to an emergency call at 7:40 p.m. at Wyandotte County Lake, about 15 miles west of Spurgeon’s Kansas City, Kansas, campus. Ben Speidel, an incoming […]
Youth pastors and youth leaders: 694 Worship leaders: 93 Lead pastors and solo pastors: 1,578 Associate pastors: 172 Pastor’s sons: 24 A new nonprofit launched a website today with an extensive database of Protestant leaders in the United States accused of abusing children or vulnerable adults. ProtestantAccountability.org, based in Orlando, Florida, is collecting publicly […]
(Opinion) Think back 20 years ago to August 2006. George W. Bush was president, iPhones didn’t exist yet and Twitter was just a month old. That was when I wrote a letter to then-Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page, describing how the Southern Baptist pastor who sexually abused me as a kid — repeatedly and severely […]
A former administrative assistant at an Arizona church is facing multiple felony charges for allegedly rerouting more than $335,000 to her personal bank accounts. Detectives in the fraud unit of the Pima County Sheriff’s Office arrested Tracey Lynn Jorgensen, 61, on July 23. She was booked into the Pima County Adult Detention Complex before being […]
A youth pastor at a Pentecostal church in Hustonville, Kentucky, was arrested Monday after confessing to sexual contact with a 17-year-old female in the congregation. Jason Coulter, 48, told Kentucky State Police he met the victim and exchanged nude photos via the Snapchat app, according to a report by WLEX-TV, Ch. 18, an NBC affiliate […]
On Friday evening (Aug. 14), Philomene Philostin, a local youth pastor, business owner and nonprofit leader, stood on the street corner outside Springfield, Ohio’s City Hall, crying out in Haitian Creole. Pastor Fontil Daity, a Haitian immigrant who leads a local Pentecostal Haitian church, interpreted in English: “Haitians! Haitians! … We cannot take it anymore. […]
The leader of a round-the-clock prayer room in suburban Atlanta told staff on Friday that the ministry is facing a serious financial shortfall. After 20 years, ceaseless worship will have to “take a break.” Gate City Church, which is closely associated with the scandal–plagued International House of Prayer – Kansas City, had been spending between […]
Adam Sheafe, who planned to start a religiously motivated killing spree by murdering Arizona pastor William “Bill” Schonemann, was sentenced Friday to natural life plus 102 years in prison. The sentence followed a June plea agreement in which Maricopa County prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. Sheafe pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and […]
Pastor and self-described prophet Brian Carn, who was featured on Christian television networks like TBN, Daystar and The Word Network, began a nine-month prison term Friday, after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Online records confirm that Carn, 37, pastor of Kingdom City Church, is an inmate at FCI Bennettsville, a medium-security federal prison in Bennettsville, […]
(Opinion) This week, a federal judge dismissed the final claim in an ongoing defamation lawsuit filed by former Southern Baptist President Johnny Hunt. Hunt, a former megachurch pastor in Georgia, was seeking over $105 million in damages and lost wages. Hunt filed the suit after he was named in a 2022 report commissioned by the […]
