The same Bible that is used against women, LGBTQ individuals and other marginalized identities is simultaneously used to shame survivors and privilege harm-doers. On Sunday, January 15, Bishop Eddie Long passed away. Long was the prominent Atlanta pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, which at its height, boasted a congregation of over 25,000. […]
The divorce petition filed by Vanessa Long against Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, has been dismissed, according to DeKalb County court filings posted online that were later confirmed by the minister’s lawyer.
While most Christians were having regular Sunday services, over at Eddie Long’s New Birth Church in Lithonia, Ga, Ralph Messer, who is part of the Hebrew Roots movement, was crowning Eddie Long King in an elaborate ceremony that included wrapping Long in a Torah Scroll reportedly found at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Bishop Eddie Long is headed back to the pulpit! The senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has returned after taking some time off for personal reasons.
Atlanta area parents are shocked and left scrambling to find a school for their children since they found out New Birth Christian Academy will not open its doors again after Christmas break. The Eddie Long church institution is feeling the brunt of a plague of bad press and diminishing church membership. Not enough students remain […]
Bishop TD Jakes talks about Eddie Lon, sex abuse and poverty with CNN.
Georgia televangelist Eddie Long told his congregation Sunday that he is “taking time off” from the church to work on his family. His announcement came just 3 days after his wife filed for divorce. Click here to read about the divorce. Long is senior pastor and bishop of the New Birth Missionary Church, which has more […]
After much-back-and-forth over the issue, Bishop Eddie Long‘s wife announced that she will indeed go through with her petition to divorce the megachurch pastor. In a statement issued late Friday, Vanessa Long’s attorney says “she has determined that dismissal of her divorce petition is not appropriate at this time,” reports Associated Press. Earlier Friday, she said […]
WTF is goin’ on?!?! Hours after announcing she had filed for divorce from megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long, his wife, Vanessa, issued a statement Friday saying she had withdrawn her petition. Vanessa Long had issued a statement early Friday morning saying that she had filed for divorce Thursday from Long, the pastor of New Birth […]
Eddie Long, the pulpit pimp in Georgia who was recently entangled in a gay sex scandal, is facing more trouble this week. Members of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church are accusing him in a lawsuit of endorsing a shady investment scheme that caused them to lose more than $1 million, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Ten […]
Eddie Long’s New Birth surveillance video of the burglary of the church office has hit the news all across the country.This video is what began the firestorm of charges. Two men were charged with the burglary. One would later sue the Bishop for sexual misconduct. The Fox News I-Team reporter Dale Russell has obtained the […]
Burglary charges against one of the men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual misconduct, have been dropped after Long refused to testify. Anthony Boyd, who accused Long of sexual coercion, was accused in 2010 of breaking into the office of Bishop Eddie Long’s offices and stealing over $100,000 worth of property. Boyd told the […]