Archive for the 'Religion' Category

Victory Christian Center Employees Plead Not Guilty

Five suspended Victor Christian Center employees have entered not guilty pleas to charges of failing to report child abuse in a child sex scandal that is rocking the mega-church to its foundation. Entering not guilty please to the misdemeanor counts were John Samuel Daugherty, 28, and Charica Dene Daugherty, 27, the son and daughter-in-law of [...]

Shall We Pray

As is far too frequently the case, Tulsa City Councilors are discussing how to include prayer in a government function. Apparently the current crop of councilors, some of whom have been there for years, just discovered that there is no hard-and-fast rules or for that matter any rules on how to kick off city council [...]

Thou Shall Not Pray

One of the most fascinating aspects of the current Oklahoma Legislature played out this week in the House chamber when two Representatives had to be physically separated as tempers flared. Such scenes are common in legislative bodies in some foreign countries, especially those just learning to deal with democracy and the various freedoms involved. They [...]

Tulsa Pastor Busted In Gay Prostitution Sting

On Tuesday night, January 3, 2006 Dr. Lonnie Wayne Latham, 59, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church and one of four Southern Baptist Convention executive committee members from Oklahoma, was arrested and booked into Oklahoma County Jail on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness with a male undercover [...]