For the past seven years, about 1.5 percent of senior pastors have lost their jobs each year due to forced terminations. via Christian News. Have you ever been ‘forcibly’ terminated?  What was your response?  Anger? Relief? And how did you recover? Todd

Seventy “embarrassed and humiliated” Baptists want their pastor removed, saying he stole money from the church, made lewd remarks to women, threatened parishioners with a gun, and was involved in “violent criminal activity,” including waving a handgun at motorists while cruising with two open bottles of alcohol and two loaded guns in his pickup truck. The Rev. Theodore Baines Sr., who stands 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs more than 300 pounds, presides over 90-year-old Mt. Olive Baptist Church “through threats and intimidation, without ever being approved through vote to...

When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and critic of the traditional view of hell as a place of eternal torment for billions of damned souls. Two days later, Holtz was told complaints from church members prompted his dismissal from Marrow’s Chapel in Henderson. “I think justice comes and judgment will happen, but I don’t think that means an eternity of torment,” Holtz said. “But...

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The pastor of Greater New Zion Baptist addresses a fight that broke out at the church on Sunday. Pastor Levonia Ray was not there yesterday, but says he’s the focus of the controversy. He says a group of people in the congregation have called for his resignation. Pastor Ray says he will abide by the decision of the members, but that a small group of people have blocked the vote three times. The violence at the church required more than 30 deputies and officers to control the crowd. HT:...