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An Episcopal Church bishop in New York who garnered headlines years ago for requiring openly gay clergy to marry their romantic partners has announced his plans to retire.
Days after admitting to exercising a “definite lack of judgment” but denying allegations he engaged in sexual misconduct with a former female staffer he treated like a “family member” 23 years ago, Michael Brown, the founder of FIRE School of Ministry, says he will deactivate his account on the social media platform X until the investigation into the claims concludes.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the birth of an Episcopal Church leader, Charles Stanley naming his successor, and the beginning of the First Vatican Council.
After more than a year of feuding between Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson and Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Order of Discalced Carmelite in Arlington, Texas, over allegations she violated her vow of chastity with an unnamed priest, officials at the Vatican decided they will no longer recognize the monastery as a civil lawsuit between the two drags on.
The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has come under fire over a speech to the House of Lords in his first public address since announcing his resignation under a storm of controversy last month.
A judge has set the trial date for former Southern Baptist President Johnny Hunt's lawsuit against the SBC and other entities over alleged defamation and violation of privacy after both sides were unable to reach a settlement.
The multi-campus Legacy Church in New Mexico has been named in a lawsuit accusing the organization of negligence after a woman alleged she was sexually abused for several months by a former minister at the church’s Steelbridge Ministries during her time receiving court-ordered drug treatment at the facility.
Daystar Television Network's co-founder and President Joni Lamb pointedly shot down in more detail allegations by her son, Jonathan Lamb, and his wife Suzy that she covered up the sexual abuse of his daughter by a family member, claiming that her granddaughter accused a boy at her preschool of touching her.
Evangelist Nick Vujicic is raising the alarm about the state of the Western Church — something he laments has become “more like a country club and a social gathering” than the Body of Christ — and its critical role in shaping the next generation amid a rise in addiction and suicide ideation.
