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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.

OnePassion Ministries, which was founded by Dr. Steven Lawson, has released a statement saying that Lawson has “resigned from all his duties” at the ministry, which includes his role as president.

A pastor has been arrested and charged with two counts of promoting child sex abuse material (CSAM). Andrew Lovisone, an associate pastor at First Baptist Church (FBC) in Peculiar, Missouri, was arrested on Tuesday (Sept. 17). 

After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in a document issued on Thursday (Sept. 19).

This summer, Mark Andrew Jefferson, who was leading a teaching workshop at Princeton Theological Seminary, prompted ChatGPT to write a homily based on the Gospel of Luke’s parable of the good Samaritan.