(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Last year, Robert Morris resigned in disgrace from leading Gateway Church, America’s largest megachurch at the time. This was after he confessed to being a child molester when his victim, Cindy Clemishire, came forward. Now, Robert Morris is facing charges for his actions.
According to the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office:
The Multi-County Grand Jury today indicted the founder of a Texas megachurch on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child stemming from incidents that date back to the 1980s.
Steve Lawson’s letter of repentance is posted on the social media platform X.
“Despite signs of physical decline, it’s impossible not to pick up on the strength of his words and the message shining through. And the message he would have given attendees in person, and now is giving them in print form, is perfect.”
“The implications are staggering. We essentially had a presidency by proxy, with unelected staffers wielding presidential power while the man himself was barely cognizant enough to read a teleprompter. This isn’t just a scandal; it’s potentially the biggest constitutional crisis in American history.”
“McMahon sent a letter to her new employees signaling the department will be shuttered if she and her boss can get their way…”
Update: President Donald Trump has kicked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House following the tense exchange:
(Matt Vespa – Townhall) It’s not exactly shocking news: President Donald J. Trump fired General Charles Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was cited for
(Paul Bois – Breitbart) A Christian girls basketball team in California will be forced to compete against a team with a transgender player as the state continues to defy President Trump’s recent executive order banning males from women’s sports.
(Protestia) NYT bestselling author Megan Basham, perhaps best known for her reporting at The Daily Wire and her book ‘Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda,’ announced on X that she has been diagnosed with “stage three, advanced colorectal cancer.”
“The order also will reinstate the 1776 Commission that Trump created during his first term to promote patriotic education and counter lessons that divide Americans on race and slavery.”
(T.A. McMahon – Berean Call) As I look back over the decades since I started The Berean Call (TBC), there are three words that come to my mind: “Thank you, Jesus!”
(Townhall – Katie Pavlich) President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon declassifying Central Intelligence Agency documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. They will be released to the American public in short order.
Some of the organizations that have either partnered with churches or changed their designation to identify on paper as ‘churches,’ thus enabling them to withhold their form 990 include “CRU/Campus Crusade for Christ, The Navigators, Gideons International, Willow Creek Association, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Joyce Meyer Ministries, Denison Forum, and Ethnos360/New Tribes Mission.”
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(Chris Queen – PJ Media) Judge Juan Merchan has sentenced President-elect Donald Trump in a New York NDA case (the so-called “hush money” case). The sentence is an unconditional discharge, which in essence is a sentence in name only.
“Ironically, the Democrats with the help of some Republicans previously pushed a law through Congress that requires the vice president to certify an election even if there is significant reason to doubt the legitimacy of official results. This was, of course, a reaction to the contesting of Joe Biden‘s “win” in 2020, but now it ensures that Harris had no alternative but to certify the election. Relegating the VP to “solely ministerial duties” protected and legitimized Democrats’ grip on power then, but now it has apparently backfired.”
(Mary Dowling) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has officially announced his resignation, and we hope Canadians can get some of their lost freedoms back with a new leader. He will step down as soon as a new leader is chosen. As he approached the lectern, his prepared speech blew away. He then quipped, “I’ll wing it.”
[There’s a] disparity between the laymen and the clergy who are to the left of their flock. It also highlights the disparity between White Evangelicals and every other religious demographic, especially Modern Jews, one of the few blocs that Kamala Harris improved upon. This election further highlighted the futility of the term “Judeo-Christians.”
“The criticism toward the woke priorities of Wikipedia comes after studies have determined that there indeed exists a leftist bias on the website, which is one of the most popular in the world.”
The manifesto titled “War Against Humanity” first appeared on an X account allegedly tied to Rupnow before the attack. In it, she expressed extreme hostility toward males, advocating their “total extermination.”
(Sam Barron – Newsmax) Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, is now open to women serving in combat and gays in the military.
(Breitbart – Ian Hanchett) On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Belleville, NJ Mayor Michael Melham stated that the drones around the state have to be taken down and stated that there were briefings “that we’ve had Coast Guard working with our New Jersey State Police, our helicopters have seen them. We asked, well, when they go out to sea, are we going to shoot them down?” And they were told the drones wouldn’t be taken down due to fears of what might be on them.
“The report on Bible sales noted that the trend comes amid a broader decline in Christian profession across the United States in recent decades.”
(Protestia) Author, apologist and The Line of Fire radio host Dr. Michael Brown has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a young woman who saw him as a father figure, according to new allegations by the Roys Report, which details grievances from incidents that occurred nearly 23 years ago.