Bishop Eddie Long has passed away and he will soon be funeralized. However, Black church communities cannot bury his troubled past with him. The church—New Birth et al.—must reckon with the Goliath of child sexual abuse and rescue the true Davids, our children, from the perverse and death-dealing realities of molestation, incest and rape.
Embattled megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long has returned to the pulpit of Georgia’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church after being away for weeks, but the senior pastor has lost a significant amount of weight, prompting more dire prognoses about the state of his health.
Bishop Eddie Long sat down with Steve Harvey to discuss his notorius sex abuse scandal that erupted just five years ago. In 2010, Bishop Long was accused of coercing several of his church’s under ages boys into sexual relationships. Throughout the controversial process, Long continued to deny the allegations and eventually settled out of court. His decision to […]
Christians and Christianity in the media have changed. In the 1980’s we saw the start of change in media. What we thought of as the…
Thirteen members of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church managed to recoup some of their monetary investments in a civil suit against controversial Bishop Eddie…
via:christianpost Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist in Georgia is facing a lawsuit by former church members who are claiming that the pastor encouraged them to invest money in a company that had a $3 million capital deficit. “If Bishop Eddie Long hadn’t endorsed this they wouldn’t have invested,” plaintiffs attorney Jason Doss […]
Centino Kemp, 22, one of the five men who alleged that he had a sexual relationship with Bishop Eddie Long, has taken to Twitter to…
The enbattled bishop, who just announced he was stepping away from the pulpit a month ago, has reportedly returned to New Birth.
Letters went out before the holiday break telling parents that the school was closing in the New Year, and not because of the scandal brought on from the Eddie Long.
