“The Newsboys were effectively sidelined across much of the Christian music ecosystem. Relationships deteriorated. Opportunities disappeared. The lawsuit argues that the reporting did not simply describe events but helped trigger a cascade of decisions that removed TCA and the Newsboys from the marketplace.”
(David Morrill) What began as long-whispered allegations about Michael Tait has now exploded into a $50 billion federal lawsuit, one that claims the scandal was not just reported but weaponized. The case pits the Newsboys and their business partners against major concert promoters, MercyMe, and Julie Roys of all people, raising uncomfortable questions about contracts, competition, and how stories get told in the Christian media world.
A sprawling federal lawsuit filed in Tennessee is pulling back the curtain on a high-stakes conflict inside the Christian music industry, one that blends private equity consolidation, artist contracts, nonprofit fundraising, and a media firestorm surrounding longtime Newsboys frontman Michael Tait.
At the center of the case are Thriving Children Advocates (TCA), its founder Wes Campbell, and the Newsboys themselves, who allege that a network of concert promoters, artists, nonprofits, and media figures worked in concert to eliminate them as a competitor in the contemporary Christian music touring space.
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18