Friends and family are mourning the loss of influential faith leader Bishop Carlton Pearson, founder of the former Tulsa megachurch Higher Dimensions. Bishop Pearson passed away Sunday night at age 70 ...

Bishop Pearson, who supported gay rights, in 2000 was among a group of 30 clergy who advised then President-elect George W. Bush on faith-based social programs. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a ...

Bishop Carlton D. Pearson, an evangelical pastor who was deserted by his large congregation after declaring that hell does not exist and advocating gay rights — and whose story was told in a 2018 ...

Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation. His skilled biblical oration, steeped in the Black Pentecostal ...

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 ...

FILE - Bishop Carlton Pearson speaks at a news conference accompanied by several other clergy members, April 4, 2013, in Chicago. Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D.