Judge freezes Benny Hinn’s bank account A Texas judge has frozen a bank account tied to Benny Hinn Ministries over unpaid debts to a marketing firm.

And now a Texas judge has frozen a bank account. My reporting here roysreport.com/judge-freeze...

A trail of lawsuits, with records in state and federal courts in New York, California, and Texas, show Benny Hinn Ministries has routinely failed to pay marketing firms.

Christian men’s conference features Mark Driscoll, Josh Howerton and others who’ve disparaged women A Christian nationalist men’s conference in Washington state features speakers promoting aggressive masculinity tied to political activism.

My reporting on the Christian nationalist conference with a line-up of speakers who have disparaged women and referred to them as their genitalia: roysreport.com/christian-me...

Sometimes it's like people ready @kkdumez.bsky.social Jesus and John Wayne as a "how to"

Orbán’s foreign ‘fellow travellers’ cite privacy to shield state-funded payouts – English Danube Institute, a center of Viktor Orbán's international unfluence network, cited “safety concerns” and “right to privacy” to keep high-paying government-fund

Original reporting here english.atlatszo.hu/2026/04/08/o...

Wonder what made it worth that much

Land of milk and honey they said.

Poem for Sunday

British minister charged with manslaughter for man’s drowning during baptism A UK-based online minister has been charged with manslaughter after a man died during a baptism.

My reporting roysreport.com/british-mini...

Sometimes writing journalism is like writing horror with the mounting dread, the urge to yell "don't go in there."

Financial failures end Hybels-affiliated leadership network in UK and Ireland The Global Leadership Network is shutting down its UK and Ireland operations after years of financial losses.

My reporting here roysreport.com/financial-fa...

The Bill Hybels-started Global Leadership Network shut down in the UK and Ireland without explanation.

But the tax records tell a story.

James Buchanan.

In the middle of the civil war he wrote his successor to ask if he’d left a French book in the White House and that just seems like vampire behavior.

Christian Aid Ministries paid Haitians to sign NDAs, complicating prosecution of their alleged rapist Christian Aid Ministries required abuse victims to sign NDAs, potentially complicating the case against missionary Jeriah Mast.

My reporting on the NDAs that may complicate the prosecution of a serial child predator here: roysreport.com/christian-ai...

If nondisclosure agreements are good actually, I don't see why orgs would work so hard to hide them

ProPublica with a notable update to journalistic code of ethics

The ghost of Richard Nixon scowls pretty forbiddingly at all presidential losers looking at a California gubernatorial run, though.

Things you see in East Tennessee

The story is nugget after nugget of quintessential megachurch culture, leadership, and governance. And that the bad joke is a decade old and they needed a third witness to finally get pastor to admit he had a problem is just the starting point.

My reporting at @julieroys.bsky.social roysreport.com/megachurch-p...

The sixth-largest megachurch in America has suspended its senior pastor for one month, after an investigation confirmed he touched a man’s crotch with a riding crop as a joke.

The ongoing Methodist fight over property in the church split has maybe turned up an interesting legal question in Florida: religionclause.blogspot.com/2026/04/flor...

Pak's unofficial rules here: cameronpak.com/posts/unoffi...

Full story here apnews.com/article/reli...

Christian software engineer Cameron Pak has developed criteria for faith-based AI. Like, it must be clearly IDed as AI and “must not fabricate or misrepresent Scripture.”

One interesting idea: AI *can't* pray for you.

But was the Avignon papacy mentioned? Inquiring minds ...

Today in the life of my Appalachian church, the building and grounds committee gave a report at the board meeting and a bunch of it was about changing lightbulbs. After it went on for a while, one of the ministers said,

See it sounds like it took a lot of people.

That’s what I would think. Report says the SBC is unlikely to get involved.

Why the SBC hasn’t intervened in Houston megachurch Second Baptist’s civil war Critics say Second Baptist isn’t living up to its democratic ideals. Can it still be a Southern Baptist church?

Full story here www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

How a big Baptist church in Texas decided to abandon democracy: