Bishop Carlton Pearson is shown arriving for the premiere of the movie "Come Sunday" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 21, 2018. Carlton died Sunday at age 70. File Photo by ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, who was the subject of Netflix's "Come Sunday" passed away on Sunday at the age of 70, following a brief battle with cancer, according to a post on his Facebook account. "We ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former ...

Pearson’s church once had 6,000 members, and his story was chronicled on This American Life and later became a Netflix film The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and ...

Minister Carlton Pearson attends the premiere of ‘Heretic’ at Laemmle’s Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre on February 24, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images) *Tulsa ...

Who is a heretic, and who is holy? The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. Bishop Carlton Pearson was one of the country's most prominent Black televangelists in the 1980s, but then he was ...

It’s been a long time coming, but shooting will begin Jan. 9 on a movie that tells the life story of Bishop Carlton Pearson, the minister who once pastored one of Tulsa’s largest Pentecostal churches ...

What’s the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church’s closeted gay music director, Reggie (a convincing Lakeith Stanfield), provides the hinge for the whole Carlton Pearson story in the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a new one — after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a new one — after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights ...