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Lara Lynn Ford. | Instagram/Lara Lynn Ford When police first questioned 51-year-old Lara Lynn Ford about why she stole nearly $1.4 million from Ed Young’s Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, the congregation’s former business manager’s initial response was “Umm stupid.” She was smart enough, however, to avoid being caught stealing from the church for more than a decade to support a bad spending habit which she sometimes indulged to “help people,” according ...

Ole Anthony, native Minnesotan who was the scourge of televangelists, dies at 82 By Clay Risen New York Times April 30, 2021 — 4:54pm Text size Copy shortlink: Ole Anthony, a former Air Force intelligence specialis...

Lara Lynn Ford. | Instagram/Lara Lynn Ford When police first questioned 51-year-old Lara Lynn Ford about why she stole nearly $1.4 million from Ed Young’s Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, the congregation’s former business manager’s initial response was “Umm stupid.” She was smart enough, however, to avoid being caught stealing from the church for more than a decade to support a bad spending habit which she sometimes indulged to “help people,” according...

D Magazine By John Bloom Published in FrontBurner April 29, 2021 12:46 pm Editor’s note: Ole Anthony died April 16, at the age of 82. It has taken folks a few days to learn the news. The New York Times ran an obituary two days ago. John Bloom (aka Joe Bob Briggs) was a friend of Anthony’s and profiled him for D Magazine in a 1999 story titled “The God Thing.” Ole Anthony was a complicated man. Several journalists over the years tried to understand him, usually looking for the “gotch...

Ole Anthony and the God Thing In which Joe Bob Briggs, America’s irreverent drive-in movie critic, gets religion. Ole Anthony was the only preacher I ever met who wanted to talk about getting laid. To be fair, he mostly talked about not getting laid and the crimp it put in his lifestyle. But there were nights in the early ’80s when we would hang out at smoky, boozy joints like Arthur’s, the notorious upscale pickup bar in North Dallas, and svelte elegant women with bedroom eyes would lin...

Ole Anthony, who spent years investigating televangelists in Dallas, has died Ole Anthony was the president of the Trinity Foundation. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died Friday at 82 years old. Credit: WFAA Author: Mark Smith Updated: 9:53 AM CDT April 20, 2021 DALLAS — Ole Anthony, 82, president of Dallas-based Trinity Foundation Inc., and activist who spent years investigating the lifestyles of rich and famous televangelists, has died. Anthony serv...

Died: Ole Anthony, Terror to Televangelists He dug through prosperity preachers’ trash and pushed a radical Christian community to be more like the first-century church. Daniel Silliman| Image: Courtesy of the Trinity Foundation / edits by Rick Szuecs When it came down to it, Ole Anthony would admit to a lot of the bad things people said about him. “My own grandiose bull— can get in the way,” he told a reporter in 2004. “I was a schemer and a promoter. That’s just t...

Ole Anthony, longtime critic of prosperity gospel televangelists and head of Trinity Foundation, dies at 82 Anthony came to fame after his investigation of televangelist Robert Tilton was featured on ABC News Prime Time program. Ole Anthony, who died April 16, 2021 at the age of 82, came to fame after his investigation of televangelist Robert Tilton was featured on ABC News Prime Time program. Courtesy photo. April 18, 2021 (RNS) — Ole Anthony, a small church pastor and activis...

Ole Anthony, Dallas pastor known for relentless investigations into TV preachers, dies at age 82 Anthony was president of the Trinity Foundation, a watchdog group that he and other Christian leaders founded in 1972 to monitor religious fraud. Ole Anthony, shown in a 1988 photo, was a founding member of a congregation that worked to help the Dallas homeless population in the 1990s and continues to help East Dallas families in need to this day. (Man at right unidentified.)(Lon Cooper - Staff Phot...