Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishop Carlton Pearson is shown arriving for the premiere of the movie "Come Sunday" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a ...

Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation. His skilled biblical oration, steeped in the Black Pentecostal ...

Pearson’s church once had 6,000 members, and his story was chronicled on This American Life and later became a Netflix film The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishop Carlton Pearson attends the special screening of the Netflix film Come Sunday at the Directors Guild of America Theater in ...

(RNS) — In a video released shortly before he died, Bishop Carlton Pearson described the kind of memorial service he hoped for. It would be “slammin,” he said, with gospel musicians and a eulogy from ...

Bishop Carlton D. Pearson, an evangelical pastor who was deserted by his large congregation after declaring that hell does not exist and advocating gay rights — and whose story was told in a 2018 ...

What’s the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church’s closeted gay music director, Reggie (a convincing Lakeith Stanfield), provides the hinge for the whole Carlton Pearson story in the ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Bishop Carlton Pearson, who once led one of the country's largest evangelical megachurches but who later disavowed key tenets of Christian orthodoxy, has died at age 70, his Oklahoma ...

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