Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pastor Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie, outside Saddleback Church in Lake Forest. She was recently named a teaching pastor and ...

(RNS) — Leaders of one of the nation’s largest and most prominent congregations say their new pastor has been cleared of allegations of abuse at his previous church. In June, Andy Wood, pastor of Echo ...

Rick Warren and Saddleback Church in 2003 Getty Images/Bob Riha Jr. The Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee expelled six churches from the largest U.S. Protestant Christian denomination, ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (RNS) — One of the nation’s best-known pastors made a surprise visit to the floor of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven ...

LAKE FOREST – Danny Duchene dropped to his knees as pastor Rick Warren led a prayer over him, the recently named pastor for Saddleback Church’s prison ministry. “The greatest feeling in life is being ...

Saddleback Church has launched what leaders are calling its largest and most ambitious plan ever to expand the mega-church’s ministry. Pastor Rick Warren describes The Daring Faith Campaign as the ...

Two years ago, an Orange County megachurch took a stand that pitted it against conservative members of its denomination. It ordained three women as pastors. Now, the Southern Baptist Convention has ...

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