by Christa Brown and David Clohessy | Aug 6, 2020 | Opinion
Does it get any sicker than this? At a flagship megachurch of the Southern Baptist Convention, church staffer James A. Hook sexually abused a 15-year-old church girl. Hook sent the girl sexually explicit photos of her own mother – photos he had taken when he had an...
by Bob Allen | Jun 20, 2007 | News
A Christian Web site criticized a Southern Baptist mega-church’s enshrining of cheerleading and beauty-pageant memorabilia to honor the senior pastor’s wife as an example of modern-day idolatry. “How do you build a ‘Cult of Personality’...
by Bob Allen | Jan 30, 2007 | News
Victims’ advocates of clergy sex abuse cut little slack for leaders of Bellevue Baptist Church, who said mistakes were made in failing to disclose a former long-time minister’s admission that he molested his son 17 years ago. “I accept full...
by Bob Allen | Jan 29, 2007 | News
Bellevue Baptist Church was “ill-prepared on several fronts” to handle a long-time staff member’s confession that he sexually abused his son 17 years earlier, according to an investigative team report delivered to the Memphis mega-church Sunday...
by Bob Allen | Jan 23, 2007 | News
Bellevue Baptist Church has terminated a minister whose admission of sexual misconduct put the suburban Memphis mega-church in the center of a scandal that has received national attention. Bellevue’s personnel committee voted Sunday to dismiss Paul Williams,...