This year’s National Fundamentalist Conference, held at Clay Mills Road Baptist, in Kentucky has stirred up some controversy. When the conference decided to do a…
The Reverend Lisa Jenkins has made history in East Harlem. The 48-year-old single mom has just been selected as the first black woman pastor of…
Would you turn away a 2-Year-Old for something he has no control over? D.L. Hughley and the gang discuss the controversial decision that the Marvin…
You’ve heard about the pastor in Winston Salem getting fired for attending a Rick Ross concert, also the pastor in Maryland receiving flack for attending a Beyonce concert with his teenage daughter. Now, a Waco pastor has ignited a firestorm of controversy banning the church’s female leadership staff from wearing weaves. Pastor A.J. Aamir says, […]
Dominique goes in on Pastor Ira V. Hilliard of New Light Church in Houston about asking his congregation for donations to help get his helicopter…
Sexual encounters between 4- and 5-year-old students were allegedly an “everyday thing” at a private California preschool that is closing its doors after coming under attack for a lack of supervision, the mother of a 5-year-old former student said. “It’s unfathomable on so many levels. For one, that it actually happened. For two, where it […]
A Winston-Salem Methodist church says it will stop performing marriage ceremonies for heterosexual couples until same-sex couples gets the same rights. The Green Street Methodist Church held a news conference Sunday. The church’s 18-member leadership council has asked pastors to conduct relationship blessings rather than marriage ceremonies in the sanctuary until the United Methodist Church […]
A Durham church is reeling after a cold-hearted thief stole a bag full of Christmas presents set aside for children in need. Now, help is needed to find the suspect and replace those gifts. The thief was brazen enough to come in during last Sunday’s service at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church downtown. The thief took […]
Perhaps the conditions were too ripe for him to pass on this kind of action. Recently Michael Winans Jr., who’s related to the Winans family of gospel singers, was charged with wire fraud in connection with accusations that he operated an $8 million Ponzi scheme in which he promised people they’d make out big by […]
Houston Pastor Charles Gilford, 58 and his wife Adriane, 53, (pictured) were arrested and charged with bilking their former congregation out of $430,000 in church funds and using them for gambling trips to Louisiana, according to KHOU News. The couple stands accused of aggregate theft and misapplication of fiduciary property. They allegedly used the monies donated by their […]
Many religions condemn overeating and laziness. But new research finds that people who frequently attend religious services are significantly more likely to become obese by the time they reach middle age. CDC On Alert For New Deadly Strain Of E.Coli The study doesn’t prove that attending services is fattening, nor does it explain why weight […]
Since the recession in 2008, many U.S. churches have seen a decline in giving. But the tide may be changing. The third annual State of the Plate constituency survey of 1,507 churches revealed that 43 percent of these churches experienced an uptick in giving this past year (up from 36 percent the previous year). Overall, […]
