This is an expanded Twitter thread. See notes at bottom for more details. The Venue Church in Chattanooga (under Pastor Tavner Smith) filed for bankruptcy yesterday, roughly 9 months after the pastor’s alleged affair received national attention. Here’s what stood out to me in the megachurch’s filings. But first, we
Update. See more details here Weeks after Venue Church ‘pastor’ Tavner Smith addressed rumors surrounding the foreclosure and sale of their property, the result of hemorrhaging members and money for nearly a year after he was exposed for carrying on an illicit affair with his worship leader/ personal assistant, the
Mark Burns is Pastor of Harvest Praise & Worship Center in South Carolina. A political candidate for congress and co-founder of the NOW Television Network, he who once led Greg Locke’s congregation in a spirited chant of “Let’s Go Brandon”– a phrase designed to be a stand-in for the coarser and
Telling congregants that “this will not necessarily be an inspiration night,” Hillsong Church held a special meeting to discuss the state of their organization and share recommendations from an independent review of their governance structure. It was a move forced by necessity after terminating Brian Houston following a series of
Public Retraction: An initial version of this article described Hamblin as a “traveling prosperity gospel televangelist and revivalist.” This information was incorrect and we apologize for the error, as he is not a prosperity preacher. We’ve issued a formal and permanent retraction on our page here. (Dissenter) John Hamblin, also
On this episode of the Bible Bashed podcast, Harrison Kahrig and Tim Mullet ask and answer these questions and more. Should you go to a church that blindly followed the CDC’s guidelines? Why avoid these churches? How does Romans 13 play into this? What should you look for in a
Disclaimer. Half these movies aren’t ‘Christian’ at all and some such as The Shack and Heaven is for Real are openly heretical. Not only this, but the number #1 film is (spoilers) rife with bizarre Roman Catholic iconography and theology. Crosswalk is undiscerning for not pointing all this out. Still,
Christian author and political commentator Eric Metaxas, writer of biographies of William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who we last featured after he sucker-punched a passing Antifa protester in the summer of 2020, said in an interview with Addison Smith on OAN’s In Focus that Christian leaders who don’t talk about
When our favorite pink-haired charismatic “prophetess” Kat Kerr isn’t revealing how to access the ‘body parts room’ in heaven or recounting how heaven smells like pumpkin pie and where cows drive around on tractors, she’s recounting all the mysteries she’s learned during her thousands of trips to heaven. Such a celebrated celestial tourist
The body of a prosperity preacher known for his TV Ministry and supposed miracles has remained in a South African morgue for almost a year following his death, on account of his family believing he will rise from the dead. Pastor Siva Moodley was the founder and pastor of The
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