The allegations of past incidents came up after a staff member was arrested recently for sex crimes.
Two Tennessee women have accused the senior pastor of First Apostolic Church in Maryville of failing to report sexual assaults they suffered when they were 11 and 12 years old and offering prayer instead.
Regular listeners to this podcast, or readers of the MinistryWatch site, you know that we often write about preachers behaving badly. We do so because we believe it’s important to maintain the purity, peace, and ...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will begin deliberating later this year on the question of what qualifies as sufficiently “religious” for a charity to enjoy the legal protections that come with that designation.
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.
The Rev. Sam Young was a prominent figure in sacred music
The Rev. Carlton R. “Sam” Young, a prominent Christian musician and music educator known for editing The Methodist Hymnal of 1966 and The United Methodist Hymnal of 1989, has died.
Daniel Mayfield was caught taping a woman in her shower
The youth minister at a Southern Baptist church in upstate South Carolina was arrested for voyeurism and subsequently fired from the church staff last week.
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.
On today’s program, a Christian college group, Chi Alpha, which is associated with the Assemblies of God and operates on 60 campuses, is under scrutiny because some of its leaders sexually abused students. We’ll have ...
