(RNS) After Ted Haggard confessed to a gay sex and drug scandal, he lost his Colorado Spring pulpit, his job as head of the National Association of Evangelicals and underwent a lengthy period of counseling and discipline.
For the most part, he hasn’t been seen much since.
Other fallen charismatic/Pentecostal superstars, however, have rapidly reemerged into the [...]

Pastor Rick Warren has a message for the some 20,000 people who attend Saddleback Church: If you want to remain a passive Christian, find another church.
During his weekend sermon, Warren laid out a plan for Saddleback’s next “Decade of Destiny” in which he’s anticipating exponential growth. And the plan has no room for fake Christians, [...]

A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a former altar boy in Rio de Janeiro and turning his parish home into an “erotic dungeon” has surrendered and is now in police custody, a public safety official said Saturday.
 State prosecutors have accused Marcin Michael Strachanowski of handcuffing the 16-year-old former altar boy to a bed three [...]

Today’s Christian
We want and expect great blessings but don’t want to give; we condemn but not help,
Is this what Jesus meant. No! We offer a week Christ to a dying world.
Prayer is out of schools and violence, homosexuality and bulling is in!
And you don’t want to Pray? The time is now to lay prostrate before [...]

A former St. Louis-area pastor has been ordered to spend three years and one month in federal prison on child pornography charges.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that 50-year-old Andrew Spallek of Florissant was sentenced Tuesday in St. Louis, three months after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.