NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
A children’s pastor was caught filming girls in a church bathroom in Arkansas. Elders suspended him for a few weeks.
In Illinois, a preacher was accused of sexually abusing children. Church leaders sent him to therapy rather than call police.
In California, a worship minister went to prison for molesting boys. His congregation threw him a party when he returned.
All of these men remained in ministry in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. All went on to abuse more children.
The thing about UU is that it is kinda both because it was made from the merger of Unitarians, who were a Christian sect and Univesalists who were not specifically religious.
It’s weird and lovely. I know a lot of clergy from other faiths who attend UU churches in retirement because they want the fellowship, but don’t want to be the defacto “backup preacher.”