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Hundreds of congregants have left a pioneering megachurch in Florida to form their own congregation because they were unhappy with leadership at the church that's seen as a bedrock of the religious right. The action by the unhappy members at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church was the culmination of a feud between loyalists to an evangelical luminary, the Rev. D. James Kennedy, and his replacement as pastor, the Rev. Tullian Tchividjian, a grandson of the Rev. Billy Graham. The new congregation... Read Full Story

The grandson of the Rev. Billy Graham will continue to lead a South Florida megachurch, even though some members have called for his ouster. Tullian Tchividjian (TUH'lee-uhn chuh-VI'-dee-uhn) took over this year as the new pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale founded by the Rev. D. James Kennedy who died in 2007. Some members circulated a letter with a petition urging a meeting to consider firing Tchividjian. But the motion was denied Saturday by a majority vote... Read Full Story

Here we go again . . . Extreme Evangelical religious right fanatics are now commonly referred to by young Americans as the ‘Hate Churches’. Is there a good reason for this? Dateline Fort Lauderdale, Summer of 2007: Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle makes wild claims that gay men are (to paraphrase) having sex in public and threatening the ‘innocent’ streets of Fort Lauderdale and putting Broward County children at great risk, etc. (Lest we forget the hateful anti-gay Anita Bryant... Read Full Story

Descendants of two of the country's most influential evangelical leaders are feuding over control of a Florida megachurch that is a bedrock of the religious right. Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale was once led by the late D. James Kennedy, who was a strong conservative voice on social issues like homosexuality and abortion. Earlier this year, a grandson of Billy Graham took over and brought a different style of leadership to the institution. Now Kennedy loyalists, including... Read Full Story

Lost in all the coverage of the inauguration today is a story in the Miami Herald about a leadership change at Fort Lauderdale's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church which has been a driving force in the anti-gay agenda. Coral Ridge was founded by D. James Kennedy, a homo-hater of the first order and a founder of the "Moral Majority" that lighted the fires of the culture wars and set the stage for the Kool -Aid drinking crowd to begin the take over of the GOP. Coral Ridge under Kennedy was also... Read Full Story

KEITH "COUNTDOWN" OLBERMANN OFFERED THE FOLLOWING CAMPAIGN COMMENT on his MSNBC programme last night, calling upon the McCain campaign to please disassociate themselves with l'affaire Ashley Todd (which, as we all know, has been nothing more than a farce from the get-go designed as desperation for a failing Presidential campaign): After all, time is of the essence. (But then again, how sure are we that the McCain/Palin campaign wasn't scripting the whole all the while, kabuki... Read Full Story

A widely-known megachurch founded by an architect of the religious right and seen as a national political force selected a grandson of Billy Graham on Sunday as its new leader. The overwhelming vote by congregants at Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Fort Lauderdale to appoint the Rev. Tullian Tchividjian could represent a softening of the message spread by the Rev. D. James Kennedy, who was pastor at the church until his death in September 2007. Kennedy's preaching against homosexuality and... Read Full Story

From The Associated Press The Reverend D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76. Kennedy died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said Kristin Cole, a spokeswoman for Kennedy's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. The cause of death has not been determined, but Kennedy had not been seen publicly he suffered cardiac arrest Dec. 28... Read Full Story

More Christian Nation Nonsense from an Assortment of Christian Nationalists by Brad Hart While surfing Godtube -- a fantastic source for Christian nationalism and general historical nonsense -- I came across a couple of clips from Coral Ridge Ministries, a Christian ministry that is passionately dedicated to the "Christian America" cause. Pastor John Rabe, who has worked with the likes of David Barton and Peter Lillback in the past, arrogantly asserts that the modern Evangelical... Read Full Story

A growing movement that experts believe could end up in the criminalization of Christianity in the United States is being exposed in a new documentary being prepared for airing on October 26, officials at Coral Ridge Ministries have announced. “Hate Crime Laws” is a half-hour exposé that shows how Christians in America, Canada, Australia, and Sweden have been arrested and prosecuted for expressing opinions that are rooted in the Bible regarding homosexual conduct, Islam or other topics... Read Full Story