Sight-Seeing: NDAs are a tool for toxic church cultures
In an article published by Religion News Service, KATELYN BEATY, author of ‘Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church’, says while not every church that uses NDAs has faced scandal, of those that have in recent years, NDAs were inevitably in the mix…
Willow Creek pastor Dave Dummitt tests positive for COVID-19 on heels of Global Leadership Summit
RNS The senior pastor of an influential Chicagoland megachurch has tested positive for COVID-19. Dave Dummitt was supposed to preach this weekend at Willow Creek Community Church but had to bow out after receiving a positive COVID test on Saturday. “Just so you know, he is feeling fine, just mild symptoms,” Shawn Williams, pastor of […]
US author Shauna Niequist apologises for her silence following allegations against father, Bill Hybels
RNS Popular Christian author Shauna Niequist has apologised for her silence following the allegations against her father, Bill Hybels, the founding pastor of suburban Chicago megachurch Willow Creek Community Church. Niequist spoke out about the allegations for the first time in a long Instagram caption posted on Monday accompanying a simple image with the words “An apology”. […]
The Interview: Dave Dummitt, new senior pastor of Willow Creek
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks with Dave Dummitt, the new senior pastor of Willow Creek, about stepping into his new role amid pandemic and protests, rebuilding trust at Willow Creek and his vision for the church…
US church Willow Creek names Michigan pastor David Dummitt as new leader
RNS Willow Creek Community Church announced today that David Dummitt, a megachurch pastor from Michigan, will be the church’s new senior pastor. The announcement comes just over two years after Willow Creek’s founding pastor resigned after being accused of abusing power and sexual misconduct. Dummitt is the founding pastor of 2|42 Community Church, a Michigan megachurch with seven campuses […]
Craig Groeschel, Life.Church pastor, quarantined at home after coronavirus exposure
RNS Two pastors of one of the nation’s largest churches are being quarantined by local health authorities at home after being exposed to the new coronavirus at a leadership training conference in Germany. Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of Oklahoma-based Life.Church, which claims nearly 90,000 attenders at its 34 campuses spread over 10 states, was a […]
US church Willow Creek announces senior pastor candidates, interim pastor out
Chicago, USRNS The search for a new leader at Willow Creek Community Church is back to the drawing board. Elders at the suburban Chicago megachurch announced Thursday that they have released the two finalists they were considering for the role of senior pastor from the search process. The elders also announced that acting senior pastor Steve Gillen […]
Willow Creek elders preach reconciliation after allegations against Hybels
South Barrington, Illinois, USRNS Battered. Weary. Divided. That’s how elder Shoji Boldt described Willow Creek Community Church at a service of worship and reflection on Tuesday night on the church’s main campus in suburban South Barrington. “We are a house divided on whether we need to dig in and why can’t we just move on?” Boldt said. […]
Willow Creek to hold reconciliation service to move on; Hybels declines invite
Chicago, USRNS Willow Creek Community Church plans to hold a service Tuesday night in hopes of moving on from the troubles involving its founding pastor, Bill Hybels. In what they said will be their last public statement about the allegations of sexual misconduct against Hybels that have torn the church apart over the last year, […]
ESSAY: WILLOW CREEK’S CRASH SHOWS WHY DENOMINATIONS STILL MATTER
TISH HARRISON WARREN, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that if there is to be any future for evangelicalism in America, “it must be a traditioned evangelicalism”…