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Jackie Hope is the longest running Dickinson Press contributor and columnist. “Hope’s Corner” is a weekly humorous column centered on a message of hope for residents in southwest North Dakota.
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Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children
This article is part of “Pastors and Prey,” a series investigating sex abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God. 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.
Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism
Spiritual critiques are coming mostly from liberal Zionist thinkers and rabbis from the non-Orthodox denominations, who ask themselves, “Are we going to be able to defend Judaism?”.