Start your Independent Premium subscription today. An Oklahoma pastor was arrested for sexual battery — just one day after he delivered a sermon about letting “bygones be bygones.” ...

AS THE ARREST WARRANT SAYS HE TARGETED WOMEN AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT HE WAS BUILDING. WE’VE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO DETERMINE HE WAS A PASTOR AT A CHURCH IN MIDWEST CITY. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS ...

Kumuyi, will be in attendance. Kumuyi, the General Superintendent and Founder of Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) based in Lagos, Nigeria, is pastor of the third-largest church in the world ...

The subject: a sermon posted on YouTube by influential megachurch pastor Ed Lapiz, in which he claimed that the God of the Old Testament (Yahweh) is distinct from—and in opposition with—the ...

The church’s new pastor will be co-presiding over the funeral, even though she never met the former president. Pastor Ashley Guthas is from Dunwoody and just recently became pastor at the church ...

Tired from an early day that started at 4:30 a.m., she didn’t at first ask “her pastor” why his number had changed. His request to buy gift cards seemed plausible, based on a prior church ...

The internet is outraged after a clip of a Virginia church service has now gone viral. In the video, Pastor Terry W. Jackson of True Vine Apostolic Church brings a young, unidentified woman to the ...