A former Southern Baptist pastor received 12 life sentences after a Florida jury found him guilty of a dozen felony charges related to sexual assault and child pornography. These included two counts of capital sexual battery, five counts of producing child pornography, and five counts of possessing child pornography. Two
(Church Leaders) A former Southern Baptist pastor in Ohio has pleaded guilty to four charges involving child sex abuse. Silas Shelton of Blanchester Community Ministries in Blanchester, Ohio, offered the guilty plea in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges of rape, gross sexual imposition, and arson. Shelton initially faced 12 charges. He was arrested in October
‘Pastor’ Sarah Jakes Roberts of The Potter’s House revealed on social media Monday that she was almost paralyzed in a trampoline accident, but that “God didn’t see fit to let that be my story.” Roberts, who is the daughter of famed modalist T.D. Jakes and who took the reins of
Jenn Johnson is the senior worship ‘pastor’ at Bethel Church in Redding, California. The co-founder of Bethel Music and Bethel Music Worship School, she is also a musician, songwriter, singer, author, and speaker. She is considered part of Bethel Church leader Bill Johnson’s inner circle, being his daughter-in-law and head
Disgraced pastor and evangelist Ted Shuttlesworth Jr. appears poised to return to public ministry, just months after admitting to a sexual affair and after multiple women accused him of engaging in lewd sexting that dates back more than 15 years. Shuttlesworth served as the co-pastor of Miracle Word Church in
The founder and disgraced former leader of the International House of Prayer, Mike Bickle, is setting the stage to return to ministry, even after an independent investigation found that the charismatic leader sexually abused or harassed at least seventeen women during his tenure there. Grandview Fellowship is a church that
Two years ago, dozens of FBI agents with guns drawn descended on the home of pro-life Christian activist Mark Houck in a terrifying early-morning raid. The 52-year-old father of seven was arrested in front of his horrified wife and children. Houck was charged and tried for violating the Freedom of
(DSNTR) I thought I had heard it all. I really did. Paula White has spent years building a reputation as one of the most brazen purveyors of prosperity nonsense in modern evangelicalism—name it, claim it, decree it, declare it, speak it into existence. The whole tired script. I’ve watched it,
Kris Valloton is the co-founder of the School of the Prophets and Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church. No stranger to saying weird and wacky things, he’s previously taught that Adam Was ‘Procreating With God’ and ‘Co-Creating’ When He Named the Animals, that God made Adam ‘Male’ AND ‘Female’ + Adam’
(ICC) Christians across central Nigeria are holding funerals following attacks during and after Holy Week that left at least 157 people dead in rural communities. Eight Christians were killed in a late-night attack on Mbwelle village in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau state, part of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where
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