Holiday tales from the Bible Belt
Ayup.
While most of us share a family event over the
next few days, I thought I’d post a couple of news notes from Georgia.
They could have originated in any portion of the Bible Belt - or elsewhere in
the theocratic world.
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her….
In truth, this is not the first — or even the second — sex scandal to engulf Archbishop Earl Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair…
The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk’s nephew.
A paternity test says otherwise. Then there is -
Georgia Baptists approved a record budget and an anti-blogging resolution…which said blogs are used by “certain people” for divisive and destructive rhetoric at the expense of peace among the brethren…
“Be it further resolved that all Georgia Baptists respectfully request and expect that individuals who disrupt the fellowship through blogging repent and immediately cease this activity and no longer cause disharmony for the advancement of their own personal opinions and agendas.”
Say, “Hallelujah!”
Thanks, KB
The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her….
In truth, this is not the first — or even the second — sex scandal to engulf Archbishop Earl Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair…
The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk’s nephew.
A paternity test says otherwise. Then there is -
Georgia Baptists approved a record budget and an anti-blogging resolution…which said blogs are used by “certain people” for divisive and destructive rhetoric at the expense of peace among the brethren…
“Be it further resolved that all Georgia Baptists respectfully request and expect that individuals who disrupt the fellowship through blogging repent and immediately cease this activity and no longer cause disharmony for the advancement of their own personal opinions and agendas.”
Say, “Hallelujah!”
Thanks, KB
Posted: Thu - November 22, 2007 at 05:51 AM