Blog Accuses Bellevue of Idolatry

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’...

Bellevue Fires Minister at Center of Sex-Abuse Scandal

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,...