Pastor Leandria Johnson joins the cast of Preacher of Atlanta, premiering on Oxygen tomorrow, Feb. 3rd. She will also be part of the Gospel Explosion on the 2016 Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about her new-age way of preaching and if she has lost members since joining […]
If at first you can’t get a jet, a highway must be next on the list. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: A proposal in the state Senate would dedicate a portion of Old National Highway in South Fulton County as the new “Creflo Dollar Highway,” a nod to the prosperity preacher’s influence as what the […]
According to an email forwarded to the Electronic Urban Report/EUR, Bishop Charles E. Blake, the presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), the world’s fifth largest denomination, and pastor of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, filed a defamation lawsuit against Earl Carter, a minister within the Church of God […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A professor at a suburban Chicago Christian college who has been placed on administrative leave after donning a headscarf to demonstrate solidarity with Muslims said Wednesday that her actions are demonstrations of her own faith. Larycia Hawkins, who is a Christian and an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, a […]
The issue of transsexuals and gay people in the church and the Gospel has been a longstanding point of discussion among many. In an interview with TEAm Curtains, Erica Campbell weighed in on the topic, as she referenced God and she believes He stands for. “I believe sin is sin and it exists and God […]
Did the judge impose his own religious views on the case?
Many of you will recall last year about this time, Andrew Caldwell became an internet sensation because he testified that he had been “delivert” from homosexuality and said, “I ain’t gay no more. I like women-women-women!” While many a Christian may have been moved by Caldwell’s sexual rebirth, others took to social media to mock […]
The family of Deante Smith is looking for answers after the 25-year-old was gunned down by his pastor in an alleged confrontation about an affair the pastor had with his wife.
New Life Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis became the fifth Black house of worship to burn in the past 10 days when it was scorched in a blaze Saturday, throwing arson investigators into high gear in an effort to determine who is setting fire to the religious structures.
Devon Franklin talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his new film, Woodlawn, the faith based film that tells the story of Tony Nathan, a star running back for Birmingham’s Woodlawn Colonels football team who went on to play at the University of Alabama and for the Miami Dolphins. The film depicts how a spiritual […]
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Two teenage brothers were brutally beaten in church — one fatally — in an effort by their parents, sister and other members to get them to confess their sins, police said Wednesday in a case involving an insular congregation that had sparked gossip and suspicion among neighbors. Police said spiritual […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Issues of race and diversity with the Mormon faith have bubbled up again after the church selected three white men last weekend to fill vacancies on a high-level governing body — a disappointment to many who hoped for an infusion of diversity. On Friday at a conference at the University […]
