Sitting in her apartment in Highland, Joy Ryder looks back on two years of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her youth pastor and said it made her reevaluate her relationship with God and religion.

Jack Hyles, innovative pastor of one of the country’s largest congregations, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, died February 6 from complications following heart surgery. He was 74. A ...

September 1959: The Rev. Jack Hyles is named pastor of First Baptist Church, moving to Hammond from a small 44-member church in Garland, Texas, to begin a thriving, fundamental new testament Baptist ...

Strength and Beauty: "Honour and majesty are before Him: strength and beauty are in His sanctuary." Psalm 96.6 "...How rare it is to find in the same package both zeal and knowledge! Somebody has said ...

Every Sunday morning since the 1960s, the salvation motorcade has issued forth: hundreds of buses scouring the Chicago area as far north as Waukegan to bring the faithful–some of them on-the-spot ...

Who’s to blame when the pastor calls a parishioner a slut from the pulpit? And other stories from around the world ...

An investigation by the Forth Worth Star-Telegram has uncovered more than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct at nearly 1,000 churches and organizations affiliated with the independent fundamental ...

Joy Evans Ryder was 15 years old when she says her church youth director pinned her to his office floor and raped her. “It’s OK. It’s OK,” he told her. “You don’t have to be afraid of anything.” He ...

HAMMOND, Ind. (CBS) --The longtime pastor of a northwest Indiana church has been dismissed due to an "improper relationship with a young woman." Dr. Jack Schaap, who has been pastor of First Baptist ...

A new docuseries about the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church takes viewers inside the shocking religious cult that allegedly enslaves women and abuses children. Entertainment Critic The ...