Gospel Singer Karen Clark-Sheard in Production with BET for Her Own Family Reality Show: ‘The Sheards’

The Sheards Reality Show in production with BET

Gospel Singer Karen Clark-Sheard in Production with BET for Her Own Family Reality Show: ‘The Sheards’

One report states that there's yet another gospel artist looking to be in the limelight a little more by starring in a reality show. We were not enthused when Mary Mary started their reality show along with Marvin Sapp and Kim Burrell. We just think its all self centered and not at all centered on God.

Well, according to DaGospelTruth.com, they knew about the forthcoming reality show featuring gospel singer sister from the The Clark Sisters, Karen Clark-Sheard and...

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Pastor Joel Peebles Wins in Appeals Court To Return to Jericho City of Praise, Report Says

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Pastor Joel Peebles Wins in Appeals Court To Return to Jericho City of Praise, Report Says

If you want the latest on the dispute between the Jericho City of Praise and Pastor Joel Peebles, you can get it from The Church Lady Blogs. They get the latest and we appreciate their diligence!

Report below:

Joel Peebles who was ousted from mega church Jericho City of Praise in Landover Maryland in April 2012, just won his Maryland Court of Appeals Case and the rogue Board must allow him back at Jericho City of says Joel Peebles via a text message....

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Gospel's Byron Cage Gets New Role as Host for Radio One's Sunday Joy in D.C.

Gospel's Byron Cage Gets New Role as Host for Radio One's Sunday Joy in D.C.

Byron Cage is not only the Minister of Music at Ebenezer AME Church in Fort Washington, MD and at St. Paul's Baptist Church in Richmond, VA, but he is now taking on a new role as the host of Radio One's Sunday Joy in Washington, D.C.

Report from Breathcast says:

 

Praise 104.1, D.C.'s Inspiration Station, is welcoming Byron Cage to its Sunday afternoon slot beginning October 7, 2012 from noon to 4PM...

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Crystal Cathedral’s Former Pastor Faces Home Foreclosure

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Crystal Cathedral’s Former Pastor Faces Home Foreclosure

While Crystal Cathedral literally does not exist due to the sell of it to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County in California, the Schuller family may be facing even more troubles since they moved out of the church.

Robert A. Schuller, the former senior pastor and son of Robert H. Schuller Sr., has announced that he will default on his home in Laguna Beach, Calif. He says its because of unsuccessful attempts to sell the home before its Nov. 2 foreclosure date...

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Le’Andria Johnson Rebukes The Church Who Judge Her New Baby Out of Wedlock | AT2W

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Le'Andria Johnson Rebukes The Church Who Judge Her New Baby Out of Wedlock

Gospel singer Le’Andria Johnson is feeling persecuted by the church and others. As news was reported recently, she became pregnant and had the child out of wedlock. She's a single mother who has been divorced twice and says her name has been drug in the mud about the choices and or mistakes she has made in her life.

“You get pregnant out of wedlock and the whole world turns against you. That's how it felt,” she said in an interview with Essence Magazine.

She just welcomed a new son into the world named, Caelington Forrest Walker. Eur Web is reporting Le'Andria Johnson gave birth to her fourth child on September 12, 2012 Caelington Forrest Walker who was named after his father and Le' Andria’s long time mate, Forrest Walker...

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St. Michael Baptist Church Fight, Dispute Over Finances and Leadership

Church Members At St. Michael Baptist Church Fight Over Finances [VIDEO]

A fight over church leadership and finances  ended up in the middle of service and the incident was taped and uploaded to Youtube.

The fight at the St. Michael Baptist Church in LaPlace, Louisiana was caught on camera and now everyone knows that this church, like many others, was put on public display of their leadership and finance issues.

“It’s a disgrace. It’s uncalled for,” parishioner Vanessa Jones said. Members said the fight was...

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Craig Lamar Davis: Could Be Charged in Multiple Counties on Reckless Behavior

Craig Lamar Davis: Could Be Charged in Multiple Counties on Reckless Behavior

There are two metro Atlanta women have accused a Clayton County man of exposing them to HIV.
Police say Craig Lamar Davis may have exposed an Atlanta woman and a Union City woman to the potentially deadly virus. One of the women says she has tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. As the law states, it is illegal in Georgia to knowingly expose someone to HIV. Davis may be charged in other counties as well in the future.

Craig Lamar Davis is out on bond in both cases and awaiting the completion of grand jury investigations in Fulton and Clayton counties, which could take months. Through his attorney Davis denies some of the charges.

Local Atlanta newspaper interviewed with Davis’ attorney show that Davis, 41, met...

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AT2W’s Tidbits on Megachurch Pastors Receiving Larger Salaries

Megachurch Pastors Receiving Larger Salaries, Report Says

Well, if you really want to know more about how pastors are paid and how much these megachurch pastors receive, you could use the information below as a guide. You can also rest assure that we have our tidbits to add to it.

A new report says megachurch pastors' salaries have increased over the last two years. It also stated the salaries were stagnated for a short period of time.

According to the 2012 Large Church Salary Report by Leadership Network (whose heard of this organization?), senior pastor salaries rose about 2 percent per year for the last two years. These particular pastors were said to be leading growing churches.

The Leadership Network is said to have been conducting salary surveys of large churches since 2001.
For whatever reason, the network began looking into the salaries of megachurch leaders and asked for salary comparisons with peer churches. We do have to say it is an interesting topic especially if the findings open the eyes of the public.

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Florida Pastor Henry Lyons Files Bankruptcy to Elude Church Foreclosure

Florida Pastor Henry Lyons Files Bankruptcy to Elude Church Foreclosure

The scandalized Rev. Henry Lyons, who rocked a national African-American Baptist organization in the late 1990s, is now facing the possibility of losing his Tampa church.

New Salem Missionary Baptist Church of Tampa filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July to try and fend off foreclosure by Fifth Third Bank. The bank says it loaned the church $1.1 million in 2007 but that New Salem missed payments and has defaulted.

The bankruptcy filing appears to have stopped the bank from taking back any properties for now.

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Actor Michael Clarke Duncan Dies In Hospital at Age 54

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Actor Michael Clarke Duncan Dies at Age 54

Michael Clarke Duncan's fiancee Omarosa Manigault says the Oscar nominee for "The Green Mile" has died while being hospitalized following a July heart attackAccording to our sources, his passing came very suddenly. We're told his fiancee, Omarosa Manigault, was with him in his hospital room in Los Angeles and left for a short period of time. When she returned ... he had died.

Our sources say Omarosa's mother was with him when he passed.

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R&B Diva Chaka Khan To Drop a Gospel Album?

R&B Singer Chaka Khan To Drop a Gospel Album?

We now have Chaka Khan giving her try on singing gospel. BET's The Gospel According to Torrence has reported she's working on a Gospel EP which should be released in January.

We saw Chaka Khan sing gospel at Oprah's Gospel Brunch on Youtube and of course she did a great job. All we ask is if she can do it in a way that exemplifies the heart of God. We pray she does not invite the hip hop and R&B into the mix.

But we have to say that we wish artists would choice one or the other. We know that people have talents in many different areas but it really does confuse their audience into thinking its o.k. to serve two masters. This is mentioned only in the sense that the genres are mixed and it gives us a distorted sense of holiness and total reverence to God.

Nigerian Pastor Sunday Adelaja Faces Arrest and Government Freezes Assets | AT2W

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Ukraine Pastor Sunday Adelaja Faces Arrest and Government Freezes Assets

Nigerian-born pastor, Sunday Adelaja, who oversees one of the largest evangelical churches in Eastern Europe, faced the possibility of arrest Tuesday.


Police summoned him to their headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine, where he could have been detained in an investigation into his alleged involvement in a now-defunct business run by members of his church.
Adelaja told a Nigerian newspaper that police turned him away at the door because the charges are not ready, but they told him to return next week.

Though he is free, Adelaja learned that all his assets, including his home, vehicles and bank accounts, have been seized by the government.

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Bishop Paul Morton Expresses Concern Over Pastor Craig Lamar Davis HIV Scandal (Part 2) | AT2W

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Bishop Paul Morton Expresses Concern Over Pastor Craig Lamar Davis HIV Scandal (Part 2)

There appears to be more to the story about Bishop Paul Morton's concern about Full Gospel's name and the man behind the HIV sex drama in his church organization.

In part 1 of Bishop Paul Morton Expresses Concern Over Pastor Craig Lamar Davis HIV Scandal , we provided the tweets about Bishop Paul Morton's concern about this scandal that has now hit his church organization as presiding bishop of Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship.  He stated that his executive assistant's husband had HIV and now she does too. Well, out of respect for her, we won't mention her name but her husband is Pastor Craig Lamar Davis. In Bishop Paul Morton's tweets he did not...

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Bishop Paul Morton Concerned Over Pastor Craig Lamar Davis Scandal (Part 1)

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Bishop Paul Morton Concerned Over Pastor Craig Lamar Davis Scandal (Part 1)

The bishop is very concerned that the Full Gospel Baptist Church name is being drug in the mud over the recent news of Pastor Craig Lamar Davis and his alleged spreading of HIV to church members. Apparently, the woman, Ronita McAfree, who broke the story with her famous letter about Pastor Craig Lamar Davis has slept with Bishop Paul Morton's executive assistant's husband. 

Consequently, Morton's executive assistant now has HIV as well. Bishop Paul Morton also states Pastor Craig Lamar Davis was never a pastor in Full Gospel.

Thanks to our friends at Joy 105 for the heads up. Take a look at the tweets below and what we have to say as well at the end.

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Pastor Kong Hee and Suspended Church Officials Not to Get Defense Funds from Church

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Pastor Kong Hee and Suspended Church Officials Not to Get Defense Funds from Church

The Channel News Asia reports City Harvest Church are not able to fund the pastor's court cases. Read below on the details:

The Commissioner of Charities (COC) said it has informed City Harvest Church that the church or its employees should not be involved in raising funds for the legal expenses of their founder and five others embroiled in the court case.
This comes amid reports that several members of the church are said to be making donations privately.
The COC had earlier issued a Restriction Order to the Board of City Harvest Church (CHC) to restrict CHC from paying the legal fees of the six accused persons or setting a specific fund for this purpose.

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Church Scandal Report: Pastor Exposes Fights Against Sexual Abuse

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Church Scandal Report: Pastor Exposes Fights Against Sexual Abuse

We were delighted to find this article about a pastor who is sick and tired of sexual abuse on men, women and children. We get a lot of people wanting us to put the brakes on airing the dirt on pedophiles and even pastors in the church who prey on women and children. This time, its not about sexual abuse in the church, but rather a pastor who is determined to 'turn the lights on' on sexual abuse of any kind.

Read below what positive things he's doing to help those victimized from sexual abuse:

Gary Morgan, pastor of Cowboy Church of Ellis County, applauds any effort to "turn the light on" and expose sexual abuse. He recalled how, in one recent month, three adult women stopped him at the end of Sunday morning worship services, asking to talk about issues that stemmed from their abuse as children. One senior adult told him she was certain she was going to hell because of something that began happening to her as a child and continued through her teen years.

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Pastor Craig Lamar Davis: 7 Things To Consider Before You Sleep With a Married Pastor

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Pastor Craig Lamar Davis: 7 Things To Consider Before You Sleep With a Married Pastor

We have to give it to our friends over at Hicktown Press. They wrote about the story circulating the web, as we did, on the arrest of Atlanta pastor Craig Lamar Davis and his charges of spreading HIV as reckless behavior to women in and out of the church.

We just posted the story yesterday and found our friends at Hicktown Press and their thoughts on the subject. We have to say we agree 100% with their analysis. Like them, we cover stories about false prophets, pulpit pimps, sexual abuse among pastors and church children, whore-munging men and women of God all of the time. It's so easy to blame the pastor or leader of the church because they should represent the purest in our communities and not the adversary they claim to pray against!

In reality, we have to look at both sides. It takes two to tangle. The old saying is true. If we don't want to be victimized, as adults there are steps we can take to avoid some things. We aren't speaking of young children and the very vulnerable of our society. We are speaking about, in particular, women in the church who will sleep with a man of God... just because??

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Gospel Singer Byron Cage As New Minister of Music of St. Paul Baptist Church, Richmond, VA

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Gospel Singer Byron Cage As New Minister of Music of St. Paul Baptist Church, Richmond, VA

The Saint Paul's Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia announced  that gospel singer Byron Cage will join the organization as the new Minister of Music. Cage will oversee and lead the implementation of a dynamic, multi-generational worship ministry as well as provide high achievement leadership at all three campuses.

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Rev. Sylvia Copeland-Murphy’s Book ‘Church Inbreed’: A Must Read To Restore Today's Church

 Rev. Sylvia Copeland-Murphy’s Book ‘Church Inbreed’: A Must Read To Restore Today's Church

To follow what the author is stating in this book, we must first know what the word 'dated' means in regards to the content.
dated (comparative more dated, superlative most dated)

1. Marked with a date.
2. Out of date.
3. Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
4. No longer fashionable.

The author's website gives us some great insight on what the book will cover which is necessary information for us today:
Church Inbreed unveils the truth of how Satan has discreetly crept into the church and intimately dated believers. His presence is as subtle poison; not easily detected and unrecognized. As much as Christians want to believe in the theological universalism, all souls will not eventually find Salvation! An evolution of corrupt worship extends out of the uniting of the world and church.


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Priest Andrzej Urbaniak Arrested for Sharing Child Porn on Church PC

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 Priest Andrzej Urbaniak Arrested for Sharing Child Porn on Church PC

Reports from Boston have come in that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has suspended the Rev. Andrzej Urbaniak whose charged with having child pornography and it involving images of preteen girls on a rectory computer.

The 39, year old  Urbaniak pleaded not guilty Wednesday in South Boston District Court.

His bail was set bail at $15,000 cash by a judge and if Urbaniak is released, he will have to wear a GPS monitoring device along with surrendering his passport, and avoiding children and the internet.

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