ONE YEAR AGO: On June 12, 2025, MinistryWatch reported that Burk Parsons, senior pastor of St. Andrew’s Chapel and chief editorial officer and teaching fellow for Ligonier Ministries, had been found guilty by a church judicial commission on three charges and indefinitely suspended from his role as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. The prosecutor in the case gave an exclusive interview to MinistryWatch about his experience. Read more here.
TWO YEARS AGO: On June 18, 2024, MinistryWatch reported that Cindy Clemishire was publicly accusing Gateway Church founder Robert Morris of sexual abuse. She alleged that he abused her in the 1980s starting when she was just 12 years old. Gateway elders accepted Morris’ resignation. Read more here.
THREE YEARS AGO: On June 14, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that the artificial intelligence arm of Facebook parent company Meta had turned to widely translated religious texts like the Bible to provide data for its Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project, which aimed to expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology to underserved languages. Read more here.
FOUR YEARS AGO: On June 16, 2022, MinistryWatch reported that the Christian Reformed Church, a small evangelical denomination of U.S. and Canadian churches, voted at its annual synod to codify its opposition to homosexual sex by elevating it to the status of confession, or declaration of faith. Read more here.
FIVE YEARS AGO: On June 15, 2021, MinistryWatch reported that TrailLife USA, a Christian alternative to the Boy Scouts, was seeing a significant rise in membership. Its membership has now grown to over 60,000. Read more here.
SIX YEARS AGO: On June 16, 2020, MinistryWatch reported the COVID pandemic had forced the permanent closure of at least 60 private schools, most of them Christian schools, according to a study by the Cato Institute. Read more here.
ELEVEN YEARS AGO: On June 15, 2015, MinistryWatch reported that one of the three executive elders at then-recently dissolved Mars Hill Church had publicly apologized for his behavior there. In a series of blog posts, Sutton Turner took responsibility for his role in a book-buying scandal, as well as in helping perpetuate a culture of fear and intimidation at the Seattle megachurch that dissolved earlier that year. Read more here.
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