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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — 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 has ...

Former megachurch pastor Carlton Pearson, who received backlash for denouncing the existence of Hell, has died at 70. The news of Pearson’s death was announced on Monday by his family in a Facebook ...

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 ...

The pastor was known for his controversial switch to Universality preachings. Bishop Carlton Pearson, the controversial founder of an Oklahoma megachurch, has died at 70 from cancer. Pearson was known ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Watch Trooper Steve on Patrol at the top of this story FILE - Bishop Carlton Pearson speaks at a news conference accompanied by several other clergy members, April 4, 2013, in Chicago. Bishop Carlton ...