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Lecrae wants to make one thing very clear: He did not condone a white pastor’s recent comment about the “blessing of slavery.” The Christian rapper received backlash this week after an on-camera conversation with Chic-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy and Atlanta megachurch pastor Louie Giglio. During their sit-down, Giglio shared his thoughts on white privilege and how we should rebrand the term to avoid […]
Bishop Gerald O. Glenn, an evangelical pastor in Virginia, has died from the coronavirus just a few weeks after he showed off his packed church and said he’d keep delivering sermons “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” Note that Glenn is not the first church leader in the state to die after downplaying the […]
Health officials in Sacramento believe that a Russian language church has become the center of a coronavirus outbreak, CNN reports. In an interview on Thursday, Sacramento County Department of Health Services director Dr. Peter Beilenson told a local television station that at least 70 people who attend the Bethany Slavic Missionary Church were infected with the coronavirus. Beilenson explained […]
Finally, we have some good news in a year that’s thus far been filled with a nearly wall-to-wall bombardment of abject shit. Jim Bakker, a fraud-convicted televangelist, has been sued by the state of Missouri for peddling wholly fake items under the guise of being a “cure” for the coronavirus. The state’s suit follows a warning from […]
Kanye West will stop in Phoenix this weekend to headline Awaken 2020—a 10-hour evangelical event that has garnered criticism from LGBTQ community members and their allies. As pointed out by the New York Daily News, the Christian gathering features a lineup of controversial religious leaders who’ve expressed anti-gay views. These figures include Cindy Jacobs, a self-proclaimed prophet who […]
A Kenyan pastor murdered his wife then killed himself in front of his congregation, police tell CNN. Eyewitnesses say that the assistant pastor of Ground for God’s Gospel Church in Mombasa, Kenya, Elijah Misiko, left his seat and approached his wife, senior pastor Ann Mughoi, in the pulpit on Sunday. He then stabbed her with one of the knives […]
Two people have been killed and another person is in critical condition after a shooting at a Texas church Sunday morning, according to reports. The shooting took place at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement. According to MedStar Mobile Healthcare spokeswoman Macara Trusty, two men were fatally shot and the other male […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon Church, has been accused of stockpiling billions of dollars worth of donations. As the Washington Post reports, a former investment manager filed a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service for over $100 billion that the church said was to be used for charitable purposes. […]
A church in Claremont, California has gained attention for a nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as refugees in separate cages. Claremont United Methodist Church is using the nativity scene to speak out against families being forcible split up across the southern U.S. border, taking aim directly at the Trump administration’s inhumane treatment. “We thought […]
Kanye West is taking the stage at Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas. The Jesus Is King artist was scheduled to perform in front of the pastor’s crowd at 8 p.m. After a 40-minute delay, the Sunday Service performance began. Livestream Kanye at Lakewood below or directly at the church’s official YouTube: Kanye is known for […]
