megachurches

Michael A. Walrond Jr.'s congregation is outraged.

The pastor of a South Carolina megachurch had to come out and apologize for his wife on Thursday after she posted an angry Facebook message targeting black NFL players who take a knee against social injustice. Fox Carolina reported that Rev. Ron Carpenter, Jr. of Greenville’s Redemption Church, posted the apology video on Facebook after his wife Hope […]

In his Sunday sermon, multimillionaire pastor Joel Osteen addressed the criticism against his decision to initially close the doors to his 16,000-seat Houston megachurch during Hurricane Harvey, in which thousands of people were left homeless and 60 were killed (as of this posting). “There’s been so much misinformation about the church this week, I wanted to clarify some […]

UPDATE: Osteen now says he’s never closed his doors to those in need. The megachurch pastor told ABC News in a statement that he would open Lakewood Church once other shelters reached capacity and shared pics of the flooding outside and inside the church. That may be soon, as Houston’s Convention Center is 2,000 people […]

We’re not sure how this slipped under the radar, but Oprah Winfrey is back on TV. You may remember the last time she was on TV was probably on The Women Of Brewster Place years ago – at least aside from her long-running daytime talk show. But we guess either she was reinfected with the […]