Warren argues that the debate is far larger than what might happen to the church he founded.
Days before the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, former megachurch pastor Rick Warren has appealed to his fellow Southern Baptists to overturn a denominational decision to oust his Saddleback Church because it permits women to ...
There's power in the ordinary church
There are plenty of places to be impressed and entertained. Church does not need to be one of them, and the problem of Hillsong NYC goes deeper than the scandals surrounding a few celebrity pastors.
Tim Keller told me he never thought of Redeemer as an “empire” or himself as someone who should have outsized organizational influence in the denomination. “My church is just one church in the presbytery,” he ...
Survey finds most Americans who watch religious services on screens are happy with them
The Pew Research Center finds a third of Americans regularly attend in-person worship services while a bit more than a quarter regularly watch religious services on TV or online.
The Daystar Television owners claim Silvergate may have seen the FTX collapse coming when it accepted its $25 million deposit
Word of God Fellowship is suing a now-liquidated cryptocurrency bank, for using $25 million in ministry deposits to participate in a massive cryptocurrency scheme with Sam Bankman-Fried's now-defunct FTX Trading.
The pastor obtained over $500,000 in federal loans for fake businesses.
A pastor in Miami, Florida, was sentenced last week to 48 months in federal prison for attempting to gain over $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds for nonexistent businesses under the Coronavirus Aid, ...
Most plan to join the new Global Methodist Church
Another large contingency of church congregations is exiting the United Methodist Church (UMC) denomination—this time in Iowa.
The Secrets of Hillsong' premiered the first two episodes May 19. The final two will air May 26.
For the Hillsong lovers, Hillsong haters and those who love to hate Hillsong, the latest documentary treatment of the global megachurch’s descent into scandal is here.
Redeemer Presbyterian Church became a congregation of more than 5,000; Keller became one of the most influential evangelicals in the US.
Tim Keller's start-up church, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, became a congregation of more than 5,000. The church's success and Keller's books made him one of the most influential evangelicals in the US.
Those few words have shaped both my journalistic career and my life, and I’m grateful to God and to Harry Reeder for them.