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State law previously allowed religious boarding schools to operate mostly unchecked, but stricter regulation has been enforced in recent years following an abuse scandal at Agape, a boys boarding ...
Justin Meier, the pastor of The Journey Church in Odessa, Missouri, where he offered therapy without a license and falsely claimed he possessed multiple degrees. Confessions and condemnations
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The clergy–penitent privilege, clergy privilege, confessional privilege, priest–penitent privilege, pastor–penitent privilege, clergyman–communicant privilege, or ecclesiastical privilege, is a rule of evidence that forbids judicial inquiry into certain communications (spoken or otherwise) between clergy and members of their congregation. [1]
John Bull – American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the US Congress in 1833 and 1834; Emanuel Cleaver – United Methodist pastor and a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri; elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent Missouri's 5th congressional district
The EPC began as a result of prayer meetings in 1980 and 1981 by pastors and elders increasingly alienated by liberalism in the "northern" branch of Presbyterianism (the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., a predecessor of the Presbyterian Church (USA)). Two cases served as important catalysts in their separation: the Kenyon Case of 1975 ...
Missouri legislators overwhelmingly passed a law in 2021 that required Missouri’s unlicensed boarding schools to register with the state, submit to health and safety inspections and conduct ...
Being married is commonly welcomed, in which case the pastor's marriage is expected to serve as a model of a functioning Christian marriage, and the pastor's spouse often serves an unofficial leadership role in the congregation. For this reason, some Protestant churches will not accept a divorced person for this position. In denominations that ...