Two Southern Baptist pastors will seek an investigation into allegations that the highest echelons of the Southern Baptist Convention mishandled several sex abuse claims and bullied sex abuse victims.
The state of California has agreed to pay a total of $2.1 million in legal fees to settle lawsuits with a Chula Vista church and a Bakersfield priest who separately sued the state over what ...
The Duke Endowment, a Charlotte-based private foundation with nearly $4 billion in assets, gives millions of dollars to United Methodist churches every year through its rural church grant programs.
This week Joseph Burress, Sr., the 71-year-old former senior pastor of Victory Church, formerly Victory Baptist Church, in Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty to second degree sexual abuse.
His life was a precursor to many of the ministry scandals of today
Lonnie Frisbee is a name mostly lost to history, but he could be one of the most influential persons in the modern evangelical movement. There’s no doubt that he is the man who put the ...
Four Romanian robbers were arrested May 26 for their role in a crime ring that stole $760,000 in donation checks from more than 350 Florida churches before targeting another 300 churches in North Carolina, South ...
Russell Moore, who recently resigned as the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethicist, has also moved on from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination personally, attending a Tennessee church that is not affiliated with the SBC.
But in a letter written more than a year before his resignation, Moore explained his troubles with the SBC’s leadership in bitterly frank terms, and Donald Trump hardly made an appearance.
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A former Hillsong NYC staff member has come forward with allegations that the megachurch’s former pastor Carl Lentz subjected her to “bullying, abuse of power and sexual abuse” over the course of seven years as ...