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 ...

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 ...

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 Tulsa religious community is remembering the Reverent Carlton Person, who died on Sunday. Pearson had recently entered hospice care due to cancer. He rose to fame in the late 70s and early 80s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, the prominent pastor who broke with standard Pentacostal thought on the concept of hell and inclusion of the LGBTQ community, was a friend and mentor to pastors throughout ...

Bishop Carlton D. Pearson during 2006 Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner at Wyndhamn Nassau Resort and Crystal Palace Casino in New Providence, Bahamas, United States. (Photo by Moses ...

A couple of decades back few could rise higher than Carlton Pearson. The fourth generation Pentecostal mister and former protégé of legendary televangelist Oral Roberts led one of the largest ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Bishop Carlton Pearson, who once led one of the country's largest evangelical megachurches but who later disavowed key tenets of Christian orthodoxy, has died at age 70, his Oklahoma ...

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 ...