“I know deep down in my sanctified soul that he did not take a bullet for same-sex unions.” – Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King in December 2004.  She marched with the now-disgraced, scandal-ridden Bishop Eddie Long that year in a march against marriage equality. In 2012, at Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King [...]

Bishop Eddie Long, one of the Black Church’s prominent pastors of “prosperity gospel” and bling-bling theology in the Southeast, is flashing neither his gold nor silver these days. The embattled pastor had hoped that settling a sex scandal lawsuit for an undisclosed amount against allegations that he used influence, trips, gifts, and jobs to coerce [...]