Carlton Pearson, Pastor Deemed a Heretic for Denying Hell, Dies at 70
He led a popular religious revival and a megachurch, but his peers and congregation abandoned him once he questioned core doctrine and advocated gay rights.
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He led a popular religious revival and a megachurch, but his peers and congregation abandoned him once he questioned core doctrine and advocated gay rights.
The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a new one — after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has died, his agent said Monday.
Carlton Pearson's agent Will Bogle told the Associated Press that Pearson died Sunday night in hospice care in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Buddy Fann, formerly of Pleasantville, record a live show in a NPR Tiny Desk Concert-inspired setting between bookshelves inside the Free Public Library of Monroe Township, Gloucester County.
Buddy Fann, formerly of Pleasantville, record a live show in a NPR Tiny Desk Concert-inspired setting between bookshelves inside the Free Public Library of Monroe Township, Gloucester County.