Bishop Eddie Long has passed away and he will soon be funeralized. However, Black church communities cannot bury his troubled past with him. The church—New Birth et al.—must reckon with the Goliath of child sexual abuse and rescue the true Davids, our children, from the perverse and death-dealing realities of molestation, incest and rape.
Another church scandal? According to several news outlets, Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist church in Atlanta, with a reported membership of 25,000, is being accused of sexual misconduct by two of his employees. Friends of Bishop Long deny the allegations but the men claim in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, that the […]
