Earlier this year, megachurch pastor Bill Hybels stepped down from his wildly popular nondenominational megachurch Willow Springs over accusations of inappropriate fraternizing with church underlings.
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The full leadership team of the Chicago-area megachurch Willow Creek has resigned months after megachurch pastor Bill Hybels stepped down in disgrace due to a series of sexual misconduct allegations.
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The riddle of a Mennonite megachurch became my intellectual obsession.
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I grew up in the 1990s during the megachurch era.
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I didn't grow up in the megachurch of the moment.
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A megachurch in Birmingham, Alabama, thinks so, and state lawmakers agree.
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"I was wrong," he told a black megachurch audience in Brooklyn.
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Church of the Kingdom of God does not resemble your typical megachurch.
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A.R. Bernard last month at the Christian Cultural Center, his Brooklyn megachurch.
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Anyone who's ever been in a megachurch will easily recognize the stereotypes.
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Hillsong: the evangelical megachurch that helped save Justin Bieber's soul — and image
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Mosaic, a homegrown megachurch, has three churches, including in Pasadena and Venice.
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Les Hughey, the founder and pastor of another megachurch in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Suburban megachurch attendance fell, because the pastors had disgraced themselves under Trump.
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I recently attended a local Southern Baptist megachurch worship service one Sunday morning.
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Popular megachurch pastor and mental health advocate Jarrid Wilson has died by suicide.
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Megachurch leaders gave him their endorsements en masse and apparently without much hesitation.
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Jamal H. Bryant, a megachurch pastor in Baltimore, has 250,000 followers on Twitter.
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She and her husband Justin Bieber are both members of the controversial megachurch.
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Welcome to the compassionate Christianity of this mega-rich megachurch and its prosperity gospel.
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Gungor is a musician who grew up the son of a charismatic megachurch pastor.
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The evangelical pastor at a Texas megachurch has a long record of controversial comments.
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Asked Joel Osteen why he won't open his megachurch to Harvey victims he blocked me.
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The series tells the story of the troubled Greenleaf family and their megachurch in Memphis.
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This mixture spawned the drive-in church, the megachurch and more recently the online church.
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Enter Carl Lentz, pastor of the New York City branch of the international Hillsong megachurch.
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They joined the Calvary Assembly, a Florida megachurch, and ate food donated by other congregants.
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"I was wrong," the billionaire said during a speech at a black megachurch in Brooklyn.
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Did you have any trouble finding the cadence of a megachurch pastor or a televangelist?
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The Summit in Houston, former home of the N.B.A.'s Rockets, now hosts a megachurch.
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Some megachurch pastors, for instance, complain that they are being inundated with film-related requests.
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Floyd Flake, then a New York congressman and now senior pastor at a Queens megachurch.
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Here's a glimpse of some of the folks who were in the room, reported by CBN, and what they had to say about it: Full list of attendees: Paula White, senior pastor at Apopka, Florida megachurch Mark Burns, South Carolina megachurch pastor Michele Bachmann, Fmr.
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I ruined family vacations by insisting on being dropped off at the showiest megachurch in town.
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Jeffress leads a 12,000-member megachurch in Dallas and is a frequent guest on Fox News.
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Alabaster also has an in with Hillsong, the evangelical megachurch that's become popular among Christian celebrities.
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The church is an affiliate of Hillsong, the global megachurch that teaches creationism and intelligent design.
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The towering glass megachurch, long the home of a flamboyant televangelist, has been renamed Christ Cathedral.
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In some cases, studios are even flying actors, costume designers and producers to megachurch discussion groups.
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The name of a boxy, windowless gray megachurch in Bakersville, California — VBF Soul Factory — sums it up.
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They say both shows are centered on a powerful, African-American family with ties to a megachurch.
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NewPointe is actually one church split into five campuses, essentially a franchise system of the megachurch model.
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Others, like the popular megachurch Hillsong, "welcome" members of the LGBTQ community, while not actually affirming them.
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She co-pastored a Tampa megachurch with 245,000 members and hosted a show broadcast on Christian television.
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He was a man of faith and had allied himself with a megachurch and a celebrity preacher.
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In 234 he formed the band Gungor with his wife, Lisa, and began playing the megachurch circuit.
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The predominantly white Central Christian Church, a Phoenix area "megachurch" had in the past assisted Muslim refugees.
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An evangelical Christian church bought a mall carcass in Lexington, Kentucky, to turn it into a megachurch.
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He also delivered a campaign speech at an "Evangelicals for Trump" campaign event at a Florida megachurch.
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"I got something important really wrong," Bloomberg said from the pulpit of a black megachurch in Brooklyn.
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Franklin Graham and Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, both of whom have already publicly criticized it. .
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The producers include author and megachurch pastor Joel Osteen, who is among the various faith leaders interviewed.
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A 2013 measles outbreak spread at a Texas-based megachurch whose pastor had preached against children getting vaccinations.
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We also know that they're likely using some standard reality television tricks and are apparently devout megachurch Christians.
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"I got something important really wrong," he said at the Christian Cultural Center, a black megachurch in Brooklyn.
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A.R. Bernard, the leader of a black megachurch, Christian Cultural Center, to talk about apologizing at his church.
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"I got something important really wrong," he said at the Christian Cultural Center, a black megachurch in Brooklyn.
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Sometimes, the only thing distinguishing a megachurch from a defunct K-Mart is a spindly cross on its facade.
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An emaciated man was pushed about a megachurch in a wheelchair as churchgoers declared that he was already healed.
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Hillsong happens to be the megachurch that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, along with numerous other celebrities, also attend.
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Preaching prosperity Some years ago, after services at her Florida megachurch, Paula White received a call from Donald Trump.
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As we reported ... Joel claims his megachurch was always open to the public, despite videos and eyewitnesses saying otherwise.
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They may watch megachurch broadcasts or join prayer circles on Facebook, but they largely avoid the pews on Sunday.
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"I was wrong," he said at the Christian Cultural Center, a black megachurch in Brooklyn, according to the Times.
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The service was held in the Potter's House, the West Dallas megachurch where T. D. Jakes is the pastor.
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She had a new job at her Chicago-area megachurch, led by a dynamic young pastor named the Rev.
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Many of the sick people in South Korea have ties to a Korean megachurch, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Korbin immersed himself in Americana: football games, big-box stores, even a Christian megachurch with its own rock band.
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As their bond crumbles, the third season presents a new threat to their megachurch: a $2 million tax bill.
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Elsewhere in the studio, artisans were piecing together a biblical scene for the window of a Los Angeles megachurch.
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"Somewhere between a rock concert, one of those happy Christian megachurch events, and a political rally, perhaps?" he wrote.
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"He's really been the quarterback," said Paula White, pastor of a Florida megachurch and longtime spiritual adviser to Trump.
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No word of a lie: I once saw a megachurch pastor almost choke to death on his own fog machine.
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In OWN's Greenleaf, a megachurch drama set in Memphis, Lynn Whitfield plays Lady Mae and Keith David is Bishop Greenleaf.
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The megachurch ensemble drama "Greenleaf" premiered as OWN's biggest show ever, and yet it didn't seem to be particularly buzzy.
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Now a megachurch, Hillsong is also an international empire, with the Houstons atop it and some celebrities among its worshipers.
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Paula White, a Florida megachurch pastor who is close to Trump, likewise said the President has fulfilled a campaign promise.
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Today, the new series Greenleaf, which follows the lives of a family in charge of a megachurch, premieres on OWN.
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Among dozens of interviews, several were with people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the national hatchery of the megachurch.
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We had met earlier in the day at an ice rink in Vancouver that shares a building with a megachurch.
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The site next to the megachurch is about two miles south of the section that was rezoned two years ago.
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They populate network television lineups, megachurch main stages, SiriusXM radio stations, Target bookshelves, and stadium events in every major city.
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Abundant Life isn't a "megachurch" by the standards of some regions in the US — it boasts a "mere" 5,000 seats.
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It is woven into medieval monks' erotic commentaries on the Song of Songs and saturates the lyrics of modern megachurch music.
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Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch is open in Houston ... and refugees are getting an official greeting from a ton of donated items.
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" Bell, who was once a megachurch pastor, says many evangelicals voted that way because they were motivated by "fear and power.
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Kanye West is about to perform his Sunday Service at Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston ... and TMZ is streaming it live.
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A Tennessee megachurch pastor has resigned his position two months after admitting to sexual misconduct with a minor 20 years ago.
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John C. Hagee, a televangelist who founded Christians United for Israel and leads a San Antonio megachurch, gave the closing benediction.
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Most successful megachurch pastors don't see themselves as that, and they actually think that guys like that are worth taking down.
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Of the 2013 cases now confirmed in Burkina Faso, two are members of the couple's megachurch — and both are from France.
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Texas pastor Joel Osteen is facing criticism for not opening up his Houston megachurch to those seeking shelter from Hurricane Harvey.
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But you don't get the feeling that Reverend Jeffers, the pastor of the successful megachurch Abundant Life, is one of them.
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She remained active in both music and church, singing in the choir of the Family Christian Center megachurch in Munster, Ind.
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Megachurch pastor Rick Warren and Southern Baptist intellectual R. Albert Mohler, for example, recently joined advisory boards on Marco Rubio's presidential campaign.
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This, of course, comes after Kanye and his choir put on a stupendous performance last week at Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston.
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Pastor Jeffers (Cedric Kyles), a genial fellow who runs the local megachurch, which seats five thousand worshippers, is concerned by Toller's state.
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Jeffress has frequently thrown pro-Trump rallies as part of his megachurch services, including making "Make America Great Again" into a hymn.
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Popular megachurch pastor and mental health advocate Jarrid Wilson died by suicide on Monday at age 2000, his family and church announced.
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Trump plans to hold a rally to launch the "Evangelicals for Trump" coalition in an Apostolic megachurch in Miami on Jan. 3.
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These dapper men were outside of the Christian Cultural Center, a nondenominational Christian megachurch in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
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And now, he's more likely to be photographed inside a hip megachurch next to a bespectacled streatwear-clad pastor than out partying.
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The boyish pastor of popular megachurch The Summit, bested longtime, old guard Baptist preacher Ken Hemphill in a 69 to 31 percent vote.
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She grew up in a much more traditional household: Her father worked as a pastor in an "evangelical non-denominational megachurch," she says.
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Circuit-riding preachers, megachurch pastors, millionaire televangelists who traded on their audiences' willingness to suspend disbelief: she sketches her characters in gory technicolour.
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In 2010, Bishop Eddie Long, the former lead preacher of the megachurch, was accused of sexual assault by four men in the congregation.
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He is understood to frequent an evangelical megachurch in Indianapolis while retaining warm ties with his blood family who are all practising Catholics.
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In the episode we talk about how different the message of many of these megachurch ministers is from the actual message of Jesus.
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A megachurch founder estimated to have more than 1 million followers around the world was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of multiple sex crimes.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced March 29 that a well-known pastor of a Houston megachurch has been indicted on fraud charges.
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PraiseMoves bills itself as an alternative to yoga and frames the practice, much like megachurch Pastor John Lindell does, as dangerous for Christians.
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The megachurch called on its congregation of about 0003,000 people to give to the cause if they had any extra money to spare.
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The Greenleaf family is back for a fourth season, and the stakes are only getting higher for the family's Memphis megachurch, Calvary Fellowship.
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But no, oh no, those VIBES I get come mainly from chillin' in the Springs and lookin' at a really sweet megachurch. Sure.
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Bishop Eddie L. Long, the flamboyant megachurch pastor whose reputation was tarnished after former congregants accused him of sexual misconduct, died on Sunday.
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Andy Savage resigned from his Memphis megachurch this year after revealing he had assaulted a teenage girl in his youth group decades ago.
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Juli Wilson is seeking comfort in her faith following the death of her husband, popular megachurch pastor and mental health advocate Jarrid Wilson.
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They started planning megachurch gatherings and produced television commercials that would be ready to ship out as soon as the nominee was known.
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But his departure points to another problem in the evangelical community: (Usually male) individual megachurch pastors have a large influence over their flock.
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The leader of an Apostolic megachurch, Pastor Guillermo Maldonado, will host the launch of President Trump's "Evangelicals for Trump" coalition at a Jan.
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Veach is also tight with Justin Bieber; the pair met through a mutual megachurch friend, and Veach even went on tour with Bieber briefly.
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The great megachurch faith known as the prosperity gospel commands legions of believers who openly court personal enrichment as a badge of divine favor.
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Robert Jeffress, the pastor at the megachurch First Baptist Dallas, told Fox News's Ed Henry that Trump's adultery made him no worse than Reagan.
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She used to hashtag to tell her story of being 16 years old and being groomed to marry an adult leader of her megachurch.
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Hiding behind tax-exempt status and the privilege that being a megachurch brings is neither what Jesus would do or what Jesus did do.
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A megachurch in Alabama is planning to create its own police force after the passage of a law allowing it to, CNN reported Friday.
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"Greenleaf," a sudsy family saga with Oprah Winfrey as both an executive producer and a cast member, exposes sinful deeds in a Memphis megachurch.
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This soapy saga, with Oprah Winfrey at the helm, continues its foray into sinners' territory in a Memphis megachurch with back-to-back episodes.
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In 2009, White was named the senior pastor at the Without Walls megachurch in Florida, further enshrining her authoritative status among America's Evangelical Christians.
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Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's half-translated anthems breathlessly hollered out like megachurch sermons made Daytona USA wholly underappreciated in any arcade too noisy to hear them.
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Developed by megachurch pastor Rick Warren, along with Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman, the plan promises a healthier life in 40 days.
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Our religious landscape is polarized, since the collapse of the old Protestant establishment, between a secular, anticlerical liberalism and a MAGA-and-megachurch conservatism.
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For instance, Joel Osteen, the leader of a Houston-based megachurch, was widely criticized for not opening his 16,000-seat building as a shelter.
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My hometown, Anderson, S.C., made headlines a few years ago when a white megachurch pastor said the N-word during a Christmas Eve sermon.
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At first, I followed my interest in the prosperity gospel like a storm chaser, finding any megachurch within driving distance of a family vacation.
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Amid the rocky backdrop and the stadium setting, the simulcast took on the feel of a Southwestern bilingual megachurch rally, with music, prayers and dancing.
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His pastor, Joel Osteen, who was recently criticized for not immediately welcoming evacuees into his megachurch, raised his fist in the air before the service.
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The dark comedy casts the two as Eli and Jesse, the paterfamilias of a family of megachurch-owning, faith-selling televangelists and his heir apparent.
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Despite that order and other restrictions on large public gatherings, a one megachurch led by Baton Rouge pastor Tony Spell has continued to hold services.
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Religions like "Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism" lead people "to an eternity of separation from God in Hell," Robert Jeffress, a Dallas megachurch pastor, once said.
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With almost 40,000 parishioners, the C.C.C. is the sort of megachurch that is more common in Atlanta or Houston or some other wealthy black urban center.
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We're told Joel has invited Kanye to take a trip to Houston and experience his megachurch, Lakewood, where 45,000 people show up to pray every week.
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Though she rejects the prosperity gospel label, White preaches many of its central tenets on her show "Paula Today" and at her new megachurch in Orlando.
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Kanye West's appearance at Joel Osteen's megachurch this Sunday is expected to draw overflow crowds ... and the folks at Lakewood Church are scrambling to avoid pandemonium.
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Osteen received loads of backlash after neglecting to open Lakewood Church — his literal megachurch that seats 16,000 people — as a shelter for victims of Harvey's flooding.
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Dallas (CNN)First it was the pastor in Memphis, whose megachurch applauded when he confessed to having a sexual encounter with a teenager 22000 years ago.
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While there, he spoke with Trevor Noah on his forthcoming album but also shared random facts like Grace Jones' brother being the pastor of a megachurch.
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Another tracked investigations into Naasón Joaquín García, who has been charged with running a child pornography and sex trafficking operation from his Mexico-based global megachurch.
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A senior pastor of a megachurch in Detroit who was accused of groping the singer Ariana Grande during Aretha Franklin's funeral service on Friday has apologized.
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Members of the megachurch, however, have previously clashed with the authorities, including in 2009 when the police confiscated Bibles and imprisoned several of the congregation's leaders.
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The pastor Andy Savage recently resigned from his megachurch in Memphis after it was revealed that he had sexually assaulted a high school student years earlier.
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The real religious action is down the road at Abundant Life, a modern megachurch overseen by Joel Jeffers (Cedric Kyles, also known as Cedric the Entertainer).
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Robert Jeffress, an evangelical megachurch pastor who spoke at Trump's inauguration, on Tuesday said Trump has the moral backing to "take out" the North Korean leader.
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Today it is a 52,000-member megachurch, with 13 campuses, a presence in six prisons, a streaming app called Crossroads Anywhere, and ambitions to expand nationally.
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It can still be considered a fringe movement, but the rise of the megachurch and celebrity preachers like Joel Osteen have given its tenets new prominence.
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Another pastor, Andy Savage, resigned from his Tennessee megachurch over allegations that he had assaulted a minor while serving as a youth pastor in Texas decades prior.
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On Monday night, elected officials, mental health professionals, and concerned locals gathered at Church by the Glades, a megachurch in nearby Coral Springs, to discuss suicide prevention.
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She pops up at everything from an "Israeli Apartheid Week" lecture in the mining-belt city of Rustenburg to the opening of a megachurch in Thokoza township.
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But the Hartford Institute says that it restricts its list to Protestant congregations in part because size isn't the only characteristic they use to define a megachurch.
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Related: North Carolina's Abandoned 'Wizard of Oz' Theme Park Will Haunt You Mike Tyson's Former Mansion Becomes a Megachurch Detroit Drone Flyover Reveals a City in Ruins
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Federal investigators say he took as much as $40 million in bribes, laundering the money through an evangelical megachurch while squirreling away millions in Swiss bank accounts.
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Today, Mr. Pence and his wife often worship at College Park Church, an evangelical megachurch in Indianapolis with three huge video screens, colored spotlights and Christian bands.
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Oprah jacked the idea for a TV show about a powerful family and their megachurch and didn't even try to hide it ... according to a new suit.
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This week we're back on Twitter, where people are reacting to the less-than-charitable actions of megachurch pastor Joel Osteen in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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"People," by Hillsong United, the musical arm of the Hillsong megachurch — whose adherents include Justin Bieber — opened at No. 2 on the album chart with 107,000 sales.
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Every month, employees are compelled to gather in a subterranean chamber for two-and-a-half-hour staff meetings that have been likened to a megachurch experience.
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Season 4 of this megachurch drama is now streaming, but start at the beginning — there are a ton of characters and a lot of competing power plays.
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Trump will attend the launch at King Jesus International Ministry, a megachurch in a Miami suburb with a large Spanish-speaking congregation, according to a church official.
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Two years later, the charity affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch in Los Angeles has shuttered dozens of colleges and art institutes around the country with little warning.
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Just last month, In Touch broke a story that claimed the megachurch was abusive and unsympathetic to sufferers of mental illness, going so far as to perform exorcisms.
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The Hartford Institute for Religion Research defines a megachurch as a Protestant congregation that has an average weekly attendance of 0003,000 or more members in its worship services.
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In the new Winfrey-produced show, Dandridge plays Grace, the estranged daughter of the titular Greenleaf family, an African-American religious dynasty that runs a megachurch in Memphis.
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Joel Osteen was back to preaching the word of God Sunday after belatedly opening his megachurch to victims of Harvey flooding ... but not before clearing his name (again).
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Mr. Cunha, an evangelical Christian radio commentator and economist who regularly issues Twitter messages quoting from the Bible, is accused of laundering the gains through an evangelical megachurch.
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Bill Hybels is the pastor of a megachurch near Chicago and is considered a giant in the evangelical world for bringing in people who were skeptical of Christianity.
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Churchome, a megachurch celebrities such as Justin Bieber have attended, also reportedly recorded a 28503 percent increase in app sign-ups after it closed its locations in Seattle.
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More than 14,000 thousand people jammed Joel Osteen's megachurch when West confessed to his previous lifestyle of arrogance and self-aggrandizement and acknowledged his bouts with mental illness.
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And earlier this month, he gathered with 5,000 evangelical Christians at a bilingual megachurch in Miami for the high-profile rollout of his campaign's "Evangelicals for Trump" coalition.
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Over the weekend, an impassioned sermon by Paula White, a televangelist, Florida megachurch pastor, and spiritual advisor to President Trump, was resurfaced on Twitter by Right Wing Watch.
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The music sounded right to me as soon as I heard it, sitting on the old seats of my parents' Suburban, in the parking lot of the megachurch.
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This pageant isn't recognizable to me as real Christianity, but as comedy, it offers needful catharsis at a crucial time -- because evangelical megachurch hucksterism really has gotten this bad.
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Perry said he would be giving $250,000 to pastor Joel Osteen, who came under fire for reportedly not letting people displaced by the floods into his megachurch in Houston.
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Pastor Joel Osteen says he would have gladly opened the doors of his megachurch to Houston residents fleeing Hurricane Harvey's deadly rising floodwaters had the city asked him sooner.
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Joel Osteen ain't lying about not being able to open his megachurch earlier to Houston flood victims ... this according to the gospel star who worked with Joel for years.
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Houston, a deeply segregated city, is well-known for housing the nation's largest megachurch, and for the city's hyper-capitalist ethos and the near-total freedom offered to developers.
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In North Carolina, Steven Furtick of Elevation megachurch built himself a $1.7 million, 16,000-square-foot home; he doesn't disclose how much he takes in salary from church coffers.
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But many of the spots in the 2,500-seat megachurch here were packed with people who never knew Officer Gerald — though they knew, intimately, of the perils he faced.
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As a student of American Christianity and the son of a prominent megachurch pastor, I've been sensing for some time that sacred speech and spiritual conversation are in decline.
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In 2013, he began working for Judah Smith, who became well known after taking over the leadership of Churchome in 2009, a megachurch started by Mr. Smith's father, Wendell.
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If you've enjoyed Danny McBride's previous HBO shows — Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals — then his megachurch-skewering crime drama The Righteous Gemstones is definitely going to be up your alley.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A prominent Houston megachurch pastor who counseled presidents and top executives pleaded guilty on Wednesday of conspiracy to sell $3.5 million in worthless bonds to elderly investors.
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Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who presides over the megachurch and has been reportedly defiant over social distancing, has claimed he'll cure coronavirus just the way he did with Zika.
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Houston-based televangelist Joel Osteen said on Wednesday that social media created a "false narrative" around a decision to not open the doors of his megachurch to flood victims.
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Every corporate office celebrates itself, to some degree, but the N.F.L.'s is particularly overwhelming, as if it were the sanctum of a highly successful megachurch marrying ESPN and Scientology.
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The pastor of our Florida megachurch called on the congregation of more than 20,000 to single-handedly end the "orphan crisis" in our county by becoming foster parents or adopting.
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Clinton hopes to make inroads with women like Mr. Copley's wife, Lauren — voters whom Clinton aides call "megachurch moms" and describe as religious, Republican-leaning women who reject Mr. Trump.
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They included the megachurch leaders Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and A.R. Bernard, the best-selling author and speaker Beth Moore, the radio and television host David Jeremiah, and the Rev.
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Joel Osteen's megachurch services will power through the coronavirus crisis -- which has officially been classified a pandemic -- meaning close to 50,000 people will gather to worship with him this weekend.
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The first two cases in Burkina Faso were a husband-and-wife team of megachurch pastors, local celebrities, who contracted the virus after attending a Lenten prayer conference in France.
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Op-Ed Contributor Before it began to rain in Houston last week, the spectacularly wealthy pastor Joel Osteen could have opened up his megachurch to serve as a logistics center.
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Paul Goulet, a pastor who leads the International Church of Las Vegas, a megachurch, said he was disappointed the brothel owner had earned a spot on the general election ballot.
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In 2014, a charismatic pastor named Chad Veach moved from Seattle to Los Angeles, and a year later founded Zoe Church, modeled after the megachurch Hillsong, where he used to preach.
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Lakewood Church, the Houston arena-cum-megachurch home of celebrity preacher Joel Osteen, is reportedly preparing to open its doors to residents driven from their homes by Hurricane Harvey-related flooding.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For 10 years, the Crossing, a megachurch in Columbia, Missouri, has been a sponsor of the True/False Film Fest, based in the same city.
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In the evangelical community, for example, the 2013 suicide of Matthew Warren, son of the well-known megachurch pastor Rick Warren and his wife Kay, shocked members of Warren's Saddleback Church.
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Ho Yeow Sun — styled as Sun Ho during her short-lived U.S. music career — is the co-founder of megachurch City Harvest Church in Singapore together with her husband, Kong Hee.
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"I know that God's been calling me for a long time and the devil's been distracting me for a long time," he said while standing with the pastor in Osteen's megachurch.
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Since 2014, when Bieber was baptized in an NBA player's bathtub by Pastor Carl Lentz, his relationship with the evangelical megachurch Hillsong has been an essential part of his personal brand.
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Churchome, a megachurch frequented by celebrities such as Justin Bieber, closed all of its Seattle locations until further notice, and has seen its app sign-ups rise 60% in a week.
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My point is that the family at the center of The Righteous Gemstones fits into a very particular subset: megachurch evangelicals, many — but by no means all — of whom are white.
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Health officials initially focused their efforts on members of a secretive megachurch in Daegu with a branch in Wuhan, but they then broadened their reach to Seoul and other major cities.
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HOUSTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A prominent Houston megachurch pastor who counseled presidents and top executives pleaded guilty on Wednesday of conspiracy to sell $3.5 million in worthless bonds to elderly investors.
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And her funeral, at a megachurch on the outskirts of Detroit, was suitably regal, with tributes that stretched on for eight hours by Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, the Rev.
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Over the last 20143 years or so, these conferences have grown in tandem with the rise of the Christian right and megachurch evangelicalism, as atheists sought comfort in a parallel world.
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"Jesus has won the victory because now the greatest artist that God has ever created is now working for him," West said onstage at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch earlier this month.
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Texas megachurch pastor Joel Osteen said Tuesday he would open up his Lakewood Church in Houston to those seeking shelter from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey after criticism on social media.
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We spoke to the megachurch preacher Tuesday in NYC, and asked if he and Ye's Yankee Stadium stop next year is an omen -- meaning, more sermons and shows in multiple cities.
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If a Christian musician wants to get a steady paycheck there's usually only one type of megachurch that has the resources to hire them as a full-time worship leader, Keen says.
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Other factors like charismatic leadership, more contemporary worship, state-of-the-art sound systems and a skilled incorporation of technology are also elements of a megachurch, according to the Institute's research. 2.
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Howard-Browne, who was born in South Africa and built the River into a megachurch with 4,000 members, is a prominent evangelical who prayed in the Oval Office with Trump in 2017.
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The leader of a Houston-based megachurch said Tuesday that it would open its doors to victims of Hurricane Harvey, after its initial statements about the storm met with strong criticism online.
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In "Gemstones" he follows form, playing the blinged-out heir-apparent in a family of mega-rich Southern megachurch ministers, headed by the cunning and recently widowed patriarch, Eli Gemstone (John Goodman).
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Still, White — the former senior pastor at the Without Walls megachurch in Florida — has often divided Christians, who don&apost buy into her version of Christianity, with her controversial statements and behavior.
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Like the Trump family, megachurch pastors and their immaculately groomed wives and children are held up as models of divine favour: winners who have found the rungs of an invisible ladder to success.
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Her books are widely pirated—her publisher tells her that the most pirated books in Nigeria are her novels, books by T. D. Jakes (the pastor of an American megachurch), and the Bible.
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"I don't judge him," said Ron Bracken, 59, a salesman and a supporter of President Trump, while sitting Sunday morning in the cafe of the megachurch that Mr. Pruitt has attended for decades.
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I talked to a few megachurch pastors and they actually opened their doors to me and were very kind and talked to me about the nature of their business and what they do.
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On Monday, Florida sheriff's deputies arrested another Pentecostal pastor, Rodney Howard-Browne, who has likewise continued to host large services at his megachurch in Tampa despite public orders urging residents to stay home.
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The megachurch pastor told reporters at the Religion News Association conference in Nashville Saturday that she was feeling "fired up" when she made the comments on the Jim Bakker Show earlier this year.
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The instrument found a new home in a California megachurch, the televangelist Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral, where it was combined with another organ to form one of the largest in the world.
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When a lead pastor is so closely identified with his church, Tchividjian said, whether in a small country church or a large megachurch, it creates a risky power imbalance between pastor and parishioner.
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The mega-televangelist is catching flak for tweeting about his hometown flood, but not doing anything to help out -- especially because his megachurch could shelter thousands of people displaced by the rising water.
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In the months since he'd quit his job as a pastor at a branch of his local megachurch in Reading, Pennsylvania, Soto had been looking for a way to create a radically inclusive church.
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Fifteen years into that career, Soto was working as a producer for a station in Pennsylvania when he was assigned to do a story about a youth group at GT Church, a Pentecostal megachurch.
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Televangelist Joel Osteen is now the target of a massive amount of online wrath after he was slow to help the citizens of Houston, where he owns a MEGACHURCH which can seat 16,000 people.
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Houston pastor Joel Osteen's name was trending on Twitter for much of Monday, as criticism mounted against him for not opening his Lakewood megachurch to serve as a shelter for victims of Hurricane Harvey.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two people, including a young man celebrating his high school graduation, were shot and wounded when a fight erupted into gunfire in the parking lot of a suburban Kansas City megachurch.
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As a Midwestern, evangelical, pro-life, Christian megachurch, whose congregants are 82 percent white, Crossroads might seem an improbable source of volunteers for a tax hike that would largely benefit low-income black families.
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It got attention for Ms. Winfrey's return to TV acting, but it was equally distinctive for its subject matter: a Christian megachurch and the travails and power struggles of the family that runs it.
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A Memphis megachurch pastor whose congregation applauded him in January after he admitted that he had engaged in a "sexual incident" with a high school student in 1998 resigned from the church this week.
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"Own the Moment" is a book by Carl Lentz, the lead pastor at branches in New York City and Montclair, N.J., of Hillsong, an international megachurch that began nearly 35 years ago in Australia.
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Hnath told me that, despite the changes in his life, he still "had faith," and this seems evident in the way he takes the self-parodying bombast of megachurch preaching and finds its poetry.
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After a gunman stormed the small church in Sutherland Springs in November 2017, a Dallas-area megachurch organized an active-shooter training session, which more than 600 church leaders from across the country attended.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally at a Hispanic megachurch near Miami Friday night, two weeks after an editorial in the influential publication Christianity Today called for his removal from office.
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That play is set in a megachurch, and it really feels like you're in a big evangelical church — not a cool one, no smoke machines, just red plush velvet choir seats and so on.
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Kanye West has taken his Sunday Service all over North America -- from Coachella to a Houston megachurch to Skid Row and all the way to Jamaica -- but now he wants to head further overseas.
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Mourners were expected to gather Saturday at a Dallas megachurch to say goodbye to Jefferson, who was killed by a Fort Worth police officer as she played video games with her 8-year-old nephew.
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Pastor Robert Jeffress — the head of megachurch First Baptist Dallas — during an interview on Fox News criticized a "crusade by secularists to remove any acknowledgment" of God from the public square and the country's schools.
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At a happy hour gathering before the event, a woman had spilled her entire messed-up Pentecostal childhood to me, and the music leader of a megachurch had confessed to no longer believing in God.
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He's like Ted Haggard, the Colorado megachurch pastor who once had the ear of President George W. Bush on a weekly basis, but lost everything because of a male prostitute and a bag of meth.
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The Texas evangelical megachurch pastor said Friday that Trump was "right on target" when he reportedly questioned why the U.S. accepts immigrants from "shithole countries" during a bipartisan meeting Thursday with lawmakers on immigration reform.
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A Memphis megachurch pastor received a standing ovation during a church service on Sunday after he admitted that he had engaged in a "sexual incident" with a high school student 20 years ago in Texas.
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Roland — who read and approved this essay — is the effortlessly brilliant middle child who takes up a disproportionate amount of space in a room, with a booming voice and the charisma of a megachurch pastor.
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In 2013, the megachurch pastor John Hagee prophesied in the book "Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change" that a series of four lunar eclipses within an 18-month span would precede the rapture.
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Joel Osteen opted to lock the doors to his megachurch at the same time a neighboring hotel not only stayed open, but filled to capacity ... proving roads in the area were accessible during Hurricane Harvey.
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The megachurch welcomes as many as 50,000 people per week, according to a 2018 article in the Houston Chronicle — a figure that doesn't include the estimated 10 million people tuning in on live streams at home.
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Mr. Rubio was first christened a Roman Catholic, baptized again at the age of 8 into the Mormon Church, and now attends a Southern Baptist megachurch with his wife on Saturdays and Catholic Mass on Sundays.
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The pastor of a megachurch in South Carolina is defending the purchase of a $200,000 luxury car he gifted his wife for their eighth anniversary after he caught flak for it on social media this week.
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Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, seemed like an average conservative megachurch, until families went public with complaints about the church's leadership pressuring them to keep quiet after their children were sexually abused by other congregants.
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Osteen's megachurch welcomes as many as 50,000 people per week, according to a 2018 article in the Houston Chronicle — a figure that doesn't include the estimated 10 million people tuning in on live streams at home.
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But the idea that this country is built on the idea of "one nation, under God" started with small little one-room churches, and we're at a place now where church is a megachurch — they're coliseums!
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A prominent house of worship in Southern California has been flipped — from a towering glass megachurch of a flamboyant televangelist to the new seat of the seventh-largest Roman Catholic Church diocese in the United States.
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It was set in the world of his own childhood, and told the story of a megachurch pastor who, after seeing a non-Christian die saving his sister from a fire, questions the existence of Hell.
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Osteen's megachurch welcomes as many as 50,000 people per week, according to a 2018 article in the Houston Chronicle — a figure that doesn't include the estimated 10 million people tuning in on live streams at home.
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Pay within the priesthood can vary dramatically—the head of a gigantic American megachurch, for example, can make hundreds of thousands of dollars—but salaries, on average, tend to be small, just enough to cover expenses.
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At the Dallas megachurch called The Potter's House, officers by the thousands crowded into the funeral for Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson, who had married a fellow officer just two weeks before last Thursday's attack.
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A year ago, she gave a shout-out to Seattle Megachurch Pastor Chad Veach and his wife Julia when she got a tattoo in honor of their daughter Georgia and her battle with a rare brain disorder.
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At 45, Greear, a megachurch pastor from Durham, North Carolina, is the youngest SBC president in nearly four decades, and the first from Generation X. He's friendly and informal, preferring button-downs and sneakers to fancy suits.
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A former pastor from a South Carolina megachurch on Sunday defended the church's controversial current lead pastor, who during an impassioned guest sermon said "I cut people" in an apparent threat directed at a local news outlet.
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"Greenleaf" is set within a black megachurch in Memphis and focuses on the Greenleaf family who runs the church and the prodigal daughter who has just returned to the fold after the mysterious death of her sister.
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He refers to himself as a "purpose-driven leader" on a mission to fight hunger — echoing the megachurch founder Rick Warren's best-selling book "The Purpose-Driven Life," which Mr. Simmons has read and taken to heart.
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John Hagee, a megachurch televangelist who has claimed Hitler was descended from "half-breed Jews"and was part of God's plan to return Jews to Israel, had prominent roles in the ceremony should embarrass all who participated.
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Caldwell — pastor of Houston megachurch Windsor Village United Methodist — and Smith allegedly promised investors high returns on bonds issued by the Republic of China before 1949, when communist forces successfully revolted and took control of the government.
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"When people see you're from California, they instantly think of 'Baywatch,'" said Mr. Johnson, the associate pastor of Bethel Redding, a megachurch in this small city a three-and-a-half-hour drive north of San Francisco.
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Brooklyn, New York, megachurch pastor A.R. Bernard resigned, but others remained, saying it was their job to provide advice and counsel to Trump, even when they disagree with him, and to press the president on Christian issues.
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After Joel Osteen was heavily criticized and accused of not doing enough to help evacuees of the deadly Hurricane Harvey, a spokesperson for the Houston celebrity televangelist's megachurch has denied they were ever closed to those in need.
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It's clear from the episode that they have little concern for the lives of the Chinese people they're "saving," but the experience gives them material for an emotional sermon once they're back at their own South Carolina megachurch.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A prominent Houston megachurch pastor who counseled presidents and top executives was charged on Friday with selling investors more than $1 million in worthless Chinese bonds and using proceeds for his own benefit, federal authorities said.
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While televangelist Joel Osteen's megachurch captured a lot of attention whether it would open as a shelter or not (it finally opened its doors Tuesday), Houston area mosques were already working to provide 24-hour services and care.
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Eduardo Cunha, the conservative former speaker of the lower house of Congress, who orchestrated the effort to oust Ms. Rousseff, is charged with taking as much as $40 million in bribes and laundering them through an evangelical megachurch.
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Following the mysterious demise of her sister, Grace Greenleaf (Merle Dandridge), a preacher turned journalist, returns home after 20 years — and to the Memphis megachurch of her father (Keith David), where at least seven deadly sins run rampant.
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It was that last part that interested Rick Warren, the pastor of a megachurch in Southern California, who realized during a marathon baptism session that he and his congregation had grown too big for their undoubtedly holy britches.
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On Friday morning, invited guests and members of the public packed the Greater Grace Temple megachurch for Ms. Franklin's funeral, billed as "A Celebration Fit for the Queen" and lasting eight hours with music, preaching, reminiscences and testimonials.
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Trump traveled on Friday to a bilingual megachurch in Miami, where he spent more than an hour touting his administration's achievements on everything from the economy and Hispanic unemployment to the return of "Merry Christmas" in Americans' vocabulary.
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But you wouldn't know that by looking at Hillsong U.S.A. Hillsong, the American outpost of an Australian Pentecostal megachurch founded by Brian and Bobbi Houston in the '80s, has a New York flagship shepherded by the charismatic Carl Lentz.
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Speaking before a black megachurch congregation in Brooklyn on Sunday, Bloomberg finally asked for repentance after years of backlash: He apologized for his support of stop-and-frisk, which led to disproportionate police searches of black and Latino people.
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Robert Jeffress, pastor of a Dallas megachurch, First Baptist Dallas, said in an interview on Fox News this week that he felt safer knowing that one-quarter to half of his congregation carries concealed weapons to services on Sunday.
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Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg apologized at a black megachurch in Brooklyn on Sunday for implementing aggressive "stop-and-frisk" policing practices that disproportionately targeted black and Latino people across the city, the New York Times reports.
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The OWN boss responded to a suit from Shannan Lynette Wynn and Pastor Lester Eugene Barrie that claims her megachurch drama "Greenleaf" is actually a ripoff of their unproduced series "Justice & Glory," which they say they pitched to OWN in 2014.
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He argues with Joel Jeffers (Cedric Kyles), the pastor of the megachurch that owns and operates his smaller church, over their reliance on the donations of a local industrialist, and about whether caring for the earth is a Christian responsibility.
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When he took the stage in front of the 16,000 followers at Osteen's Houston megachurch on Sunday, West's own ego-stroking was inevitable: "The greatest artist God has ever created is now working for him," West claimed, about... himself, of course.
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Brendan and his biker friends told me they hung out in the parking lot most weekends, pulling donuts and practicing tricks; they said members of Christ United, a megachurch across the road, sometimes look on disapprovingly, but have never intervened.
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Starter episodes: Episode 21: "Sahar" (May 228, 22018), Episode 20193: "Akbar" (June 22019, 230) Bishop T.D. Jakes has become one of the most famous pastors in the country since founding the Potter's House, a 22019,000-member nondenominational megachurch in Dallas.
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Here's an excerpt from my discussion about the show's pilot with Alissa Wilkinson: The family at the center of The Righteous Gemstones fits into a very particular subset: megachurch evangelicals, many — but by no means all — of whom are white.
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Even as the number of Australians who identify as Christians has fallen in recent years, Pentecostal churches, like Horizon and Hillsong, the global megachurch, have drawn a surge of new worshipers, especially appealing to young people with a contemporary worship style.
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"What they look like now is totally common across what you could think of as the megachurch type of model," said Richard Flory, senior director of research and evaluation at the University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture.
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"But I can't change history, however today I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong and I'm sorry," said Bloomberg in front of the congregation at a predominantly African American megachurch in Brooklyn, New York.
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Wendell Burton, whose promising Hollywood career began with a starring role opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film "The Sterile Cuckoo" but fizzled before he turned to ministerial work for the megachurch preacher Joel Osteen, died on Tuesday in Houston.
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The charity, started 215 years ago and affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch in Los Angeles, has a nationwide network of outreach programs for problems like homelessness and domestic violence and said it planned to use the schools to fund its expansion.
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Most of the pastors declined to be interviewed or did not respond to messages, including Mr. Veach, who leads Zoe Church in Southern California, and Mr. Lentz, a lead pastor at the New York campus of the global megachurch Hillsong.
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After Hurricane Harvey hit Houston this past weekend, some organizations — like megachurch pastor Joel Osteen's 16,800-seat Lakewood Church — came under fire for not doing enough to help those displaced by the flooding, which has killed at least 46 as of Friday morning.
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" - Televangelist and "megachurch" pastor Joel Osteen on Twitter "His kindly manner and unpretentious nature made him a trusted confidant to twelve U.S. presidents, reassuring generations of Americans that their leaders could count on this humble man of God for counsel and support.
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But in fact, like many nonreligious Americans, he had never even heard of the group in question: Hillsong United, the primary musical engine for Hillsong, the stylish, internationally expanding Australian Pentecostal megachurch that counts Justin Bieber and Kevin Durant among its flock.
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Ferrell Brown, a white pastor at a suburban Atlanta megachurch, stood on the big bald top of Stone Mountain on a warm Saturday morning, sharing a stage with two relatives of those murdered at a black church in Charleston, S.C., three years ago.
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It's the only thing that would account for the film's spot-on dialogue and humor, which skewers a handful of megachurch culture's obsessions: growing the size of the congregation, providing empirical "proof" for various Bible stories, and supporting, emulating, and idealizing Israel.
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This low-key party may be surprising to fans who remember Bieber's wilder days, but lately, the "What Do You Mean?" singer has spent more time worshipping at his megachurch and getting emotional while riding bikes around New York City than hitting the club.
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Mayor Marcelo Crivella, who is affiliated with the evangelical megachurch Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and wrote in his 1999 book that homosexuality is a "terrible evil," called for the comic book to be banned for depicting a kiss between two male superheroes.
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Still, Mr. Cunha, who is thought to retain considerable political sway, is hoping to keep his seat despite facing a trial over claims that he pocketed colossal bribes, laundered the gains through an evangelical megachurch and squirreled away millions of dollars in Swiss accounts.
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But Christianity is a storied colonizer, and on Sunday, when a group of performers at a Hillsong megachurch in Manhattan made a rapid switch from singing "All You Need Is Love" to their own hymn, "O Come Let Us Adore Him," the transition was seamless.
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Hillsong, a Pentecostal megachurch that was founded more than 30 years ago in Sydney and spread on the back of a hugely successful Christian recording label, has between 9,000 and 10,000 members in New York — most of them young, racially diverse and screamingly fashionable.
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And in 1997, Graham met with then Chinese President Jiang Zemin when he was visiting the US. In South Korea, Billy Graham's popularity helped make Myungsung megachurch in Seoul, the largest Presbyterian Church in the world, with a weekly attendance of around 100,000 people.
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Extremely rich and famous pastor Joel Osteen (you know, the one who shut down his megachurch during hurricane Harvey) had an event at the Forum in Inglewood, California in late October, so actor Michael Klimkowski decided to jump at the opportunity to do some A+ trolling.
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Several evangelical titans have recently been pressured to resign or retire, including Hybels; Tennessee megachurch pastor Andy Savage, accused of sexual misconduct with a minor; and former Southern Baptist Convention president Paige Patterson, accused of making sexist remarks and encouraging women to forgive their abusive husbands.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Of the 75% of Americans who identify as Christian, between 2 and 5 million regularly attend a megachurch — a super-sized house of Protestant worship that has a weekend attendance of 2,000 or more people; some draw up to 20,000.
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But the vibe — the red caps and campaign slogan, a refreshed but familiar playlist featuring "Eye of the Tiger" and "My Way" on loop, an invocation by the megachurch pastor Paula White — was that Mr. Trump and his supporters really wanted to relive their surprise 2016 victory .
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John Hagee, a televangelist and pastor of a prominent Texas megachurch, proposed in his 2013 book Four Blood Moons that the coinciding of two Jewish holidays, Passover and Sukkot, and total lunar eclipses in April and October in both 2014 and 2015 amounted to a message from God.
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They talked about a lot more too -- Ye touched on his upbringing in the church, explaining that he found going to Sunday service as a kid was pretty boring ... even though his parents were staunch believers, bringing the family to a megachurch in Chicago 3 times a week.
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A Dallas evangelical pastor who once said that Jewish people are going to hell and a megachurch televangelist who claimed that Hitler was part of God's plan to return Jews to Israel both played prominent roles on Monday in the opening ceremony of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem.
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Pastor Edir Macedo, who has made billions as the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God megachurch, has been reportedly censoring journalists who work for his vast media empire, which includes the nation's second-largest television outlet, Record, as well as the online R7 news site.
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Three leaders of a megachurch based in the Philippines were arrested on Wednesday in California and Virginia on charges that they ran a human trafficking ring, one that the Justice Department said had arranged for dozens of sham marriages in the United States to support a fraudulent charity.
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In 2016, New York Times critics Margaret Lyons and James Poniewozik published a fascinating conversation about God on the small screen, digging into some recent television depictions of religion, from the casual Catholicism of Jane the Virgin to the full-throated Jewishness of Transparent to the OWN megachurch melodrama Greenleaf.
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Much of the fun in the show's early episodes (I've seen four) stems from Jesse's frantic, flopsweat-drenched attempts to prevent his father from finding out about some of his bad behavior, while Eli glides above it all, trying to keep his megachurch empire alive through sheer inertia and willpower.
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At the time, old-guard evangelicals' support for Trump was seen by some as the death knell of that brand of megachurch, big-budget, GOP-friendly evangelicalism, especially when compared to the firebrand opposition of younger evangelical leaders like the Southern Baptist Convention's firmly anti-Trump (and pro-Twitter) Russell Moore.
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One was Pastor John Hagee, founder and chairman of a powerful group called Christians United for Israel, and the other was Robert Jeffress, pastor of a Dallas megachurch, who is notorious for his blunt predictions that followers of such creeds as Mormonism, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism are likely to end up in hell.
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But according to Wartburg Watch, a popular blog run by two American Christian women, in addition to The Village, a Southern Baptist megachurch that boasts some 10,000 worshippers a weekend around Dallas, both Bethlehem Baptist and Capitol Hill Baptist, major evangelical churches in Minneapolis and in Washington, D.C., respectively, have similar contracts.
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Rapper Kanye WestKanye Omari WestKanye to join Joel Osteen on tour at Yankee Stadium: report A$AP Rocky blocked from performing in Swedish prison where he was held Kanye West is a welcomed disruptive voice MORE will join megachurch pastor Joel Osteen on tour at an event in Yankee Stadium, TMZ reported.
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Alongside Greenleaf (a juicy drama about the family behind a megachurch that debuted last June) Queen Sugar, which Winfrey also executive produces, has helped propel The Oprah Winfrey Network from home of wholesome reality series and a slate of Tyler Perry sitcoms to a network boasting some of the most popular dramas on cable.
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The teacher was Cary King, whose father pastored a local megachurch, Maryland Community Church, which is a donor to the C.P.C. King leads an abstinence program for all junior-high and high-school students in Vigo County, called Creating Positive Relationships, or C.P.R.; the Healthy Start grant was now covering part of her salary.
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From Twitter to Mar-a-Lago to a Miami megachurch, the president used various public venues to champion the overnight drone strike against one of the most infamous figures in the Ayatollah's regime, trying to quell fears of a military confrontation and justifying his unilateral decision with a barrage of tweets, retweets and blunt statements.
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The most egregious false claim: Pete Buttigieg's faith Trump, who famously struggled with some of his Christian campaign content during the 2016 election, decided at the megachurch that it was a good idea to take a religion-related shot at a 2020 presidential candidate: Democrat Pete Buttigieg, an Episcopalian who fluently discusses matters of religion.
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Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Public Policy Commission, is appalled by Falwell's statement, and also by pro-Trump declarations from such prosperity-oriented evangelical leaders as Joel Osteen, pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, "the biggest church in the United States," and Robert Jeffress, pastor of the Dallas megachurch First Baptist.
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Rather, had I never gone to Cairo, I could see myself instead ending up at a hipster-approved NYC megachurch—one where the worship leaders wear queer-derived fashion while they wring their hands over their choir members' "sinful" gay relationships By the time I was 17, I had seen a pride parade, but never a communal Friday prayer.
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In the Opinion essay "It's Getting Harder to Talk About God," Jonathan Merritt, who identifies himself as "a student of American Christianity and the son of a prominent megachurch pastor," writes about enlisting a social research firm to conduct a survey of 1,000 adults to investigate how often, or whether, American adults have spiritual or religious conversations.
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To the Editor: Even if Michael R. Bloomberg's apology is genuine and most sincere, it would have been much more credible if he had offered it to a carefully selected group of black and Latino victims of his stop-and-frisk policy instead of to a gathering at the Christian Cultural Center, a black megachurch, in Brooklyn.
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A. R. Bernard took to the blue carpeted stage of the Christian Cultural Center, the 96,000-square-foot megachurch he built 16 years ago at the edge of Starrett City, in Brooklyn, with his usual accouterments: a smartphone, a bottle of water and a large glass marker board that he would soon cover in bullet points drawn from the playbooks of marketing specialists.
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Where Succession's central family is one of coastal decadence, The Righteous Gemstones centers on a family of televangelists whose megachurch empire has earned them considerable sums of money, but who seem to have forgotten the whole "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" thing.
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And then he went and made a movie about a minister in a small church, working in the shadow of a much larger megachurch, who plummets into a dark night of the soul brought on partly by a growing feeling that what he's believed and taught all his life isn't a sufficient answer for the struggles of the world in which he lives.
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He and his faithful assistant (played by Amy Ryan) are praying for some kind of miracle, and it seems to arrive in the form of a megachurch pastor (Danny McBride) who wants to pay Verdean to get major artifacts from the Middle East and bring them to his church — all for the sake of the Kingdom of God, of course.
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One example (which, to be clear, does not include allegations of sexual abuse or rape) is disgraced former Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll, who, 18 years after founding his church, resigned in October 2014 after public criticism and a battery of formal complaints about his leadership style from former staff and congregants — including a history of crude or misogynistic remarks about women.
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Speaking before the congregation at the Christian Cultural Center, a black megachurch in Brooklyn, Mr. Bloomberg delivered his apology in the heart of one of the communities most affected by his policing policies, and at a location that nodded to the fact that should he decide to run for president, African-American voters would be a crucial Democratic constituency that he would need to win over.
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Jerry Falwell and his son, Jerry Falwell Jr. The former, a Southern Baptist pastor by training, created a Christian media empire and a political lobbying powerhouse — the Moral Majority — while also founding a megachurch and Liberty University, which now has a multi-billion dollar endowment and more than 100,000 students (thanks in part to the school's robust online offerings — the majority of students attend classes online).
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Among its unanswered questions is whether "Virginia" designates an individual or the state; I assumed it to be the state, given that its date, 1998, marked the run-up to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton — the culmination of the culture wars of the 1980s and '90s, whose leaders included Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority, the televangelist pastor of a megachurch based in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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And again: part of the point of being Catholic, I would have thought, is that we don't have to keep having these arguments anew in every generation, like a megachurch in the midst of a succession crisis or coping with a superstar pastor's theological drift; rather, we can treat past teaching as essentially reliable, and indeed treating past teaching as reliable is essential to what being Catholic means.
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The pastor of a New York megachurch said Friday that he has resigned from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's Evangelical Advisory Board, citing "a deepening conflict in values" with the administration. Rev.
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To a striking degree, the manic activity that arose from the formulation of the original Protestant ethic resembles the strange and obsessively wealth-worshipping world of latter-day evangelical faith — from the "positive thinking" gospel of Norman Vincent Peale (far and away Donald Trump's favorite religious thinker) to the self-hymning splendor of today's prosperity gospel — a vision of boundless divinely sanctioned individual success now identified with its best-known apostle, megachurch pastor Joel Osteen.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit group with more than 30,000 members that works to advocate for separation of church and state, is calling on the IRS to "promptly investigate" a megachurch in Miami that is hosting a campaign event for President TrumpDonald John TrumpPence: Intelligence shows Iran directing militias not to attack U.S. targets Mnuchin aims to wait until end of 85033 to disclose Secret Service costs for Trump's travel: report Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment MORE on Friday.
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This case has everything: nepotism, money laundering, telecom deregulation, "There Will Be Blood"–style land swindling, a crooked evangelical megachurch, under-vetted federal appointees and political corruption that goes all the way up to the racist AG. (It also involves a mole or wiretap in the Southern District, since the moneyman whom Chuck targets receives a tip that nearly enables him to escape the Feds; I'm a lot more worried about this than Chuck himself appears to be.) Success here would make taking down Bobby Axelrod look like issuing a parking violation.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's daughter and adviser Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpPresident tweets 'few work harder' than Ivanka, Jared Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia MORE made a personal donation to a Texas megachurch to aid its efforts to care for migrant children separated from their families under the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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If every Catholic high school or college were one degree less secularized and worldly; if every Protestant megachurch were one degree more liturgical and theological; if not every Catholic but more Catholics became priests and nuns; if not every Christian family but more Christian families decided to have a third child or a fourth or fifth; if not every young Christian but more young Christians looked at working-class neighborhoods as an important mission field; if Catholics and Protestants alike could imitate even part of Mormonism's dense networking … all this would be a form of the Benedict Option in action, and both the churches and the common culture would be better for it.
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