He led a popular religious revival and a megachurch, but his peers and congregation abandoned him once he questioned core ...

Pearson’s church once had 6,000 members, and his story was chronicled on This American Life and later became a Netflix film ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, who once led one of the country's largest evangelical megachurches but who later disavowed key tenets ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, who founded a former megachurch in Oklahoma and denied the concept of hell, has died at 70 after struggling with cancer. He passed away in hospice care in Tulsa. He was first ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, a Christian minister, author, and gospel artist who shifted his religious beliefs to preach the ...

The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma known for rejecting the idea of hell and supporting gay rights has died OKLAHOMA CITY -- The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was ...

Presiding prelate of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, Bishop Yvette Flunder, who late former megachurch pastor Carlton ...

Carlton Pearson, a high-profile Tulsa megachurch pastor whose later rejection of the doctrine of hell made him an outcast among evangelicals but brought him a wider audience and inspired a feature ...

I want to show diversity,’ Pearson said in a recording near the end of his life, which has ended up being shown through the ...

The pastor was known for his controversial switch to Universality preachings. Bishop Carlton Pearson, the controversial founder of an Oklahoma megachurch, has died at 70 from cancer. Pearson was ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — 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 ...

Bishop Pearson, who supported gay rights, in 2000 was among a group of 30 clergy who advised then President-elect George W.