On This Date: Dr. Michael Brown Released to Resume Ministry
Plus, Wayne Grudem retired from teaching, T.D. Jakes announced grant program, and more.
ONE YEAR AGO: On May 1, 2025, MinistryWatch reported that a group of Christian leaders comprising an “elder accountability team” recommended that Line of Fire’s Dr. Michael Brown be released to resume his public ministry from which he had refrained since November 2024 following accusations of misconduct. Read more here. 
TWO YEARS AGO: On May 1 2024, MinistryWatch reported that Wayne Grudem, research professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary in Arizona, would retire from his teaching career. “The combination of my Parkinson’s disease, my prostate cancer and its treatments, and my 76 years of age all are combining, and the result is that I don’t have the energy that I have previously had,” he wrote in a letter. Read more here.
THREE YEARS AGO: On May 1, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that Bishop T.D. Jakes announced a 10-year, billion-dollar partnership with Wells Fargo to revitalize neighborhoods, foster economic opportunity, and create long-term change in communities in need across America. In February 2024, the T.D. Jakes Foundation announced the recipients of $9 million in grants. Read more here.
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FOUR YEARS AGO: On May 5, 2022, MinistryWatch reported that the federal Department of Education began investigating Liberty University’s handling of student reports of sexual assault. In a statement to ProPublica, the school pledged its “full cooperation” with the investigation. In March of last year, the Department of Education announced it had fined Liberty $14 million for “material and ongoing violations” of the Clery Act, “including with respect to its published crime statistics and treatment of sexual assault survivors.” Read more here.
SIX YEARS AGO: On May 6, 2020, MinistryWatch reported that televangelist Jim Bakker was under investigation for allegedly making false claims about COVID, and for selling treatments for COVID on his television program. Read more here.
SEVEN YEARS AGO: On May 10, 2019, MinistryWatch reported about concerns of nepotism at the church of Trump advisor Paula White. Read more here.
