by Jim Heath | Dec 15, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Religion
Multimillionaire televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch took $4.4 million in bailouts as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 relief program for small businesses. The evangelical church, which is based in Houston, Texas and is one of the...
by Jim Heath | Dec 13, 2020 | Headlines, Religion, Trump
In a series of tweets this morning, well known evangelist Beth Moore unleashed on Donald Trump and questioned how other religious leaders could back him. Moore, the founder of Living Proof Ministries in Houston and the most famous woman in Southern Baptist life today,...
by Jim Heath | Oct 21, 2020 | Headlines, Religion
In a new documentary, Pope Francis has called for the creation of civil union laws for same-sex couples, in remarks that break from the Catholic Church’s official teaching and mark his clearest support to date for the issue. Washington Post: In the documentary,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 17, 2020 | Headlines, Religion
A 911 call made by Jerry Falwell Jr.’s wife just days after his resignation from Liberty University revealed that he was losing ‘a lot of blood’ after allegedly injuring himself on a trash can in a fall while drunk. In the call record of the...
by Jim Heath | Sep 2, 2020 | Entertainment, Headlines, Religion
The publisher of Hustler magazine has accused Jerry Falwell Jr of ‘gross hypocrisy’ in an op ed in which he attacked the disgraced evangelical leader for his marital turmoil and his support of Donald Trump. Larry Flynt, 77, said that Falwell Jr, 53, was...
by Jim Heath | Aug 28, 2020 | Headlines, Religion
The pool boy who had an affair with Jerry Falwell Jr’s wife Becki says he told him to ‘go for it’ with her the first time they had sex and that he waited for them on a bed, ‘drunk and giggling’ after telling him that they didn’t...
