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The scandal has implicated the Assemblies of God (AG) and its sponsored college outreach, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries. Since last spring, multiple reports have alleged that leaders of Chi Alpha, which operates on over 300 college campuses, allowed Savala access to students at several Texas chapters. The suit filed Thursday claims that Chi Alpha ...
The father of a teenage boy in central Texas is suing the nation’s largest charismatic-evangelical denomination for negligence, saying one of its ministries gave his son’s alleged abusers “positions which engendered trust.” The new lawsuit is the latest development in a widening sex scandal involving convicted sex offender Daniel Savala. The scandal has implicated the Assemblies of God ...
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As the seventies drew to a close Robison began to consider various ways of expanding his ministry. Aware that the audience for his weekly program was small—less than 500,000, according to the major ratings services—and composed largely of people who were already church members, he began to experiment with prime time weeknight television specials. I...
As one might expect from a self-styled dogmatic fundamentalist, Robison not only preaches “pure doctrine” but also rails against sin, which he does not hesitate to call by its first name. His prime target, selected at least in part because he rather obviously understands its powerful allure, is sex. He describes the glories of marital sex with such...
Despite his belligerent style, rigid dogmatism, and condemnatory message—or perhaps because of it—James Robison had climbed by the end of the seventies into the lower ranks of the top ten most popular television evangelists. His audience and reputation, however, remained largely regional, concentrated heavily in the South and Southwest, where funda...
Robison was still flushed with victory in January, at his annual Bible Conference in the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth. Over a three-day period as many as 11,000 people came to see and hear James and a roster of other high-powered preachers, but the spotlight shone brightest and warmest on the new darlings of the gospel celeb circu...
Robison is frequently guilty of sidestepping serious intellectual discourse. I doubt that the accusation will sting James sharply, since he has often expressed skepticism about the fruits of intellectualism, but I still regard it as a serious criticism and am convinced that reason and intellect have, on balance, served the world better than their o...
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Sep 28, 2023 · Multiple Assemblies of God (AG) pastors are calling for the resignation of denominational leaders for what the pastors say has been a “shameful” response to a sex abuse scandal within the AG’s college ministry. The scandal involves Daniel Savala, a longtime volunteer teacher and mentor with Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, the official ...
May 23, 2024 · Three men who were leaders in a central Texas church youth group and part of Chi Alpha Campus Ministries were arrested on child sex abuse charges, according to county records. It’s the latest arrest in a widening sex scandal centered on former Chi Alpha mentor, Daniel Savala. On Thursday, the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men ...
Oct 21, 2016 · "Without a doubt, we are on the way to losing many freedoms, beginning, tragically, with religious freedom," Robsion said. As the presidential election is only 19 days away, evangelicals are concerned about many issues, but the justices that the next president nominates to the U.S. Supreme Court arguably tops the list.
Multiple Assemblies of God (AG) pastors are calling for the resignation of denominational leaders for what the pastors say has been a “shameful” response to a sex abuse scandal within the AG’s college ministry. The scandal involves Daniel Savala, a longtime volunteer teacher and mentor with Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, the official college ministry of the AG. Savala is accused of raping ...
