Investigation reveals Chicago Archdiocese’s financial woes
Chicago, USRNS In 2013, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago held the single largest giving campaign in its history, bringing in pledges totaling $US427 million. Of that, $US150 million was supposed to be set aside by the archdiocese to fund its schools through the Catholic Education Scholarship Trust. But six years later, the archdiocese holds […]
Publishers stop printing Hybels’ books amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour
RNS Several publishers have stopped printing books by former Willow Creek Community Church pastor Bill Hybels as the Chicago-area megachurch he founded investigates new allegations of his inappropriate behaviour toward women. Rev Hybels has denied the allegations. Tyndale House Publishers has suspended publication of Rev Hybels’ Everyone Wins When a Leader Gets Better, set to […]
Megachurch pastor Bill Hybels resigns, calls sexual accusations ‘flat-out lies’
USA Today The pastor of a powerful Chicago-area megachurch has resigned after a series of sexual misconduct claims he described as “flat-out lies.” Bill Hybels, 66, founded Willow Creek Community Church more than four decades ago, building it into an eight-campus evangelical Christian megachurch with a 7,000-seat worship centre. Rev Hybels has been dogged in recent […]
FILM: AUTHOR LEE STROBEL’S ‘THE CASE FOR CHRIST’ NOW A MOVIE
US journalist turned pastor, Lee Strobel, speaks with Religion News Service’s EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER about The Case for Christ and its transformation into a film…