Archive for the 'Clergy Gone Bad' Category

Shocking!

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

An old post at Titusonenine shares the following:
The vestry of Prince Frederick’s Parish fired its rector in 1756 because the Rev. Michael Smith, who apparently already was married, claimed he had the power to marry himself to another woman without the intervention of a third party. The last straw was when Smith defended himself by [...]

Juanita Bynum’s wedding

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

For some reason, people are searching this site for information about the 2003 wedding of Juanita Bynum. Mrs. Bynum is a popular charismatic speaker on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network).Ebony magazine gave the following report of the wedding:
The “million-dollar” wedding of Dr. Juanita Bynum, well-known evangelist and author of the best-selling Matters of the Heart, [...]

Does it ever end?

Thursday, November 17, 2005

As I was digging around Charisma magazine’s website, I found yet another possible clergy ethics scandal from August:
PASTOR PLANS TO RETURN TO PULPIT AFTER REHAB.
An Arlington, Texas, pastor is expected to return to the pulpit of his church after his June release from a second drug-treatment facility. Charged in March with drug possession and sexually [...]

How many reprobates does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

My subscription to Charisma magazine lapsed some time back. I wish it weren’t so. If for no other reason, Charisma makes for good reading because of the level-headed, critical look at the charismatic world that editor J. Lee Grady provides in his monthly editorial columns. And if that’s not enough to pay [...]