A promotional video for the upcoming annual women’s conference sponsored by the James River Church, a Pentecostal megachurch based in Springfield, Missouri, features a pink record player and the voice of the late televangelist Kathryn Kuhlman, who encourages women to give their worship to God. The video then shows scenes of joyful women dressed in Read more
“Pat!” Msgr. John McSweeney calls down the hall. Two heads poke out of two offices, and two replies of “Yes?” come back to him. “This is nothing,” the correct Pat says as she walks me down the hall. “We had eight Pats in the office at one point, and two of them were priests.” A Read more
Ulf Ekman, the founder of the Word of Life mega-church in Sweden, is to become Roman Catholic. Ekman called his conversion a “personal journey” and said it was not his agenda to unite Word of Life with the Catholic Church. Continue reading
There has been The outbreak of measles in a faith-healing megachurch Eagle Mountain International Church. EMIC co-pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons denied that she ever opposed vaccination (which is pretty much true. Her co-pastor and husband George Pearsons attributed the end of the measles outbreak not to vaccines, but to a two-minute long communal prayer he Read more
Churchgoers are flocking to mega churches or “sheds” on the North Shore leaving traditional churches struggling to survive.
Modern Christian churches City Impact, Windsor Park Baptist and Harbourside are thriving, leaving historic local churches broke and empty.
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