All posts tagged "Pastor"

A so-called "book-banning pastor" was forcefully removed from a school board meeting in North Carolina after he was asked to leave but refused.

In a speech at the Wake County School Board on Tuesday, Pastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr. called for the board members to be arrested after alleging that students were forced to read "pornographic" materials.

"You all are criminals right now," he told the board members. "The Parental Bill of Rights was passed last May, went into effect on January 1, and there are several books that are quite damaging to children that are still in several schools in this district." ...

Evangelical Christians are not going to be convinced by the left to reject Donald Trump, but there's still hope it may happen anyway, according to one former pastor.

Nathaniel Manderson, who was educated at a conservative seminary and has been a pastor, a career counselor, and a high school teacher, said in a piece published on Sunday that evangelical Christianity can only be "saved" if it "dumps Trump."

"Liberal mockery will never break the spell. My fellow evangelical believers have to look within themselves," Manderson writes in the Salon article....

A Texas holy man must pay millions to a woman who accused him of giving her a case of herpes.

Rev. Ralph West II is being ordered to pay $2.45 million after a three-day trial in which the jury deliberated for six-and-a-half hours, KPRC reported.

“You can’t fix it, she’s got it for the rest of her life,” the unnamed woman's attorney Shaun Murphy told the TV station, noting that she feels vindicated after the jury ruled in her favor.
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MAGA podcaster Rochelle Hardaway Richardson, more commonly known by her stage name "Silk," has bailed out a Christian pastor indicted as a co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

According to the report by Josh Fiallo and Justin Rohrlich, Stephen Cliffgard Lee "was the last of 19 co-defendants to surrender to authorities. His attorney, David Shestokas, suggested Lee’s delay was money-related, with the Chicago pastor short by thousands on his $75,000 bond. Shestokas, who spoke at length about Lee’s case to The Daily Beast last week, said Silk spoke about Lee’s situation on her Thursday night podcast, telling her listeners that Lee 'needs to be in church on Sunday.'"

Shestokas called the last-minute donation to the bond a "miracle."...