In case you missed it, it has been announced that Bishop Stephen A. Davis, of New Birth Birmingham has been named to succeed the late Bishop Eddie Long. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! https://www.instagram.com/p/BEUtv5JBrrL/?taken-by=newbirthbirmingham Davis was approved as Long’s successor by the New Birth board during a succession plan that was drafted in 2013. He […]
Family, friends and members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church will gather to celebrate the life of Bishop Eddie Long today. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! We are told Former Gov. Roy Barnes, former Falcons and Braves star Deion Sanders, Rev. Byron Cage, Ms. Dottie Peoples and civil rights activist Xernona Clayton are among the prominent figures who are featured […]
Jamal Parris, Spencer LeGrande, Maurice Robinson and Anthony Flagg, the four men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual coercion back in 2010 said Monday that they will publish a book on how the megachurch pastor affected their lives. Their lawsuit against him was settled in May 2011. A fifth accuser, Centino Kemp, came forward […]
So many thoughts… so I’ll just think and write. I was at the radio station doing my Sunday morning radio show when I got the call around 6:30 on my cell phone that Bishop Eddie Long had passed in the wee hours of the morning. By that time, nothing was online about it & I […]
News flooded social media this morning reporting that Bishop Eddie Long has passed. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Bishop Long, Senior Pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia was reportedly in bad health after recent appearances shown looking very thin and frail. Long disputed the claims saying that a new diet led to the weight loss […]
Gospel award winning singer Kim Burrell is under fire over the weekend after a sermon surfaced on social media in which Burrell bashed homosexuals stating: “You play with the homosexual spirit in God’s house and you’ll die from it in 2017”… Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Burrell goes on to say that homosexuality is a spirit that confuses […]
Tuesday Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church responded to concerns he was diagnosed with cancer after a recent video was posted on Facebook in which Long attributed his weight loss to a new vegan diet. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! He shares with WSBTV’s Tom Jones: “I am recovering from a health challenge that I […]
Bishop Eddie Long sat down with Steve Harvey to discuss his notorious sex abuse scandal that erupted just five years ago. In 2010, Bishop Long was accused of coercing several of his church’s under ages boys into sexual relationships. Throughout the controversial process, Long continued to deny the allegations and eventually settled out of court. His decision […]
Thirteen members of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church managed to recoup some of their monetary investments in a civil suit against controversial Bishop Eddie…
There was a shooting today (February 5) in the parking lot of Bishop Eddie Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia. The shooting involved a deputy who is reportedly okay. A spokesperson for the church told WSB-TV that the shooting is unrelated to the church. Deputies reportedly chased a suspect onto church property where […]
The man accused of running a Ponzi scheme and swindling members of Bishop Eddie Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church out of millions of dollars has been found living in Kansas. Federal authorities have been trying to locate Ephren Taylor for months after the Securities and Exchange Commission went to court to stop what it […]
