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After a contentious six-day trial, a jury found prominent Louisiana Pastor John Raymond guilty of three felony counts of child cruelty, plus one count of second-degree child cruelty. The charges stemmed from his disciplinary actions as headmaster of Lakeside Christian Academy.

Ohio Pastor William Dunfee used a bullhorn to spur on the mob on Jan. 6, 2021. Dunfee was charged with and convicted of two felonies, with a sentence of 30 months in prison and an order to pay $12,000.

There are church leaders who want to ignore artificial intelligence (AI) completely and there are those who find it intriguing, but regardless of pastors’ feelings about the technology, it is essential that they engage with it.

While it appears no formal announcement as been made by John MacArthur's Grace Community Church (GCC) or The Master’s Seminary (TMS) regarding the moral failure of Dr. Steven Lawson, Lawson has been scrubbed from both websites. 

James Swanson, formerly of Rome Wesleyan Church in Rome, New York, will undergo 15 years of supervised release after he has completed his prison sentence. 

On his 19th anniversary as senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee, Pastor Steve Gaines told congregants he “will now begin a transition out of the pastorate.”

On Sunday (Sept. 22), Mark Becker, elder at Trinity Bible Church of Dallas, addressed the congregation for the first time since lead pastor Dr. Steven Lawson was removed last week for a relationship that Lawson had with a woman who wasn’t his wife.

Following a trial this week, a jury found 25-year-old Mytrez Woolen guilty of capital murder in the January 2021 shooting death of Pastor Mark McWilliams. The verdict resulted in an automatic life sentence, with no possibility of parole.