This table is very limited and does not record smaller indiscretions. Sexual assault in particular is hard to quantify since many victims are afraid to report their offenders. Cult leaders and those who the evangelical community would not consider being one of them were also not included. Also not included are faith healers.
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Evangelical Leader | Indiscretion | Organization | Additional |
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Albert Odulele | Rape of young boys | Founder of Glory House | |
Bill Gothard | Sexual Assault and Rape | Basic Life Principles | IBLP helped cover up the accusations. |
Bill Hybels | Sexual Assault | Willow Creek Church | |
Billy Graham | Anti-Semitism | Billy Graham Association | |
Bob Coy | Infidelity | Megachurch Pastor and Political Leader | Former strip club manager. Leader of 1500 churches within his network. There were also other pastors implicated. |
Bob Jones | Sexual Abuse | Associate of the Olathe Vineyard church | (No relation to Bob Jones of Bob Jones University) |
Bob Moorehead | Sexual Abuse | Overlake Christian Church | |
Bobby Hawk | Sexual Abuse | EPIC Church | Sexually assaulted at least 1 12-year old girl. |
Bruce Douglas Konold | Child Molestation | Eagan Hills Church | |
Chris Reed | Sexual Misconduct | Morning Star Ministries | |
David Mark Baker | Child Molestation | Family Baptist Church/Fallen In Grace | Baker was a pastor and restoration counselor for people who have conducted sexual misconduct. He comitted suicide on Sept. 11, 2024 |
Doug Phillips | Adultery | Vision Forum | |
Earl Paulk | Sexual Assault & Incest | Televangelist | These are accusations. |
Eddie Long | Sexual impropriety/Financial wrongdoings/Domestic Abuse. | New Birth Missionary Baptist Church | |
Erickson Lee | Covering up sexual abuse. | Morning Star Ministries Youth Leader | Had also committed several sexual crimes prior to Morning Star. |
Jack Hyles | Sexual/Emotional/Spiritual Abuse. | ||
Jerry Falwell Jr. | Sexual promiscuity | Liberty University | |
Jerry Falwell Sr. | Fraud | Liberty University | |
Jim Bakker | Rape | The PTL Club | |
John MacArthur | Overt White Supremacy | Grace Community Church | MacArthur was also accused of counseling a woman to reconcile with her husband who had been sexually abusing their child. |
Johnny Hunt | Sexual Assault | First Baptist Church of Woodstock | Assaulted another Pastor’s wife. |
John Stackhouse | Sexism, grooming, and deception | Crandall University | Theologian |
Jose Alcides Vasquez | Child Molestation | Menifee location of Iglesia De Cristo Camino De Santidad | Lead Pastor of multi-site international church. |
Lonnie Latham | Male Prostitute | Tulsa Metro Baptist Association | |
Mark Driscoll | Spiritual Abuse and Toxicity | Mars Hill | |
Matt Queen | Destroying and falsifying evidence to cover up SBC sexual assaults. | SBC and Seminary Administrator | |
Michael Reid | Adultery | Michael Reid Ministries/Christian Congress for Traditional Values | |
Mike Bickle | Sexual and Spiritual Abuse | Founder of International House of Prayer | The same individual who brought sexual misconduct charges against Paul Caine in 1991. |
Mike Pilavachi | Sexual Abuse | Soul Survivor | |
Morning Star Ministries | Sexual Abuse and misconduct | Morning Star | Several employees/ministers have been named throughout the years for sexual misconduct and abuse. |
Paige Patterson | Domestic Violence | Former President of the Southern Baptist Convention | |
Pat Robertson | Child conception out of wedlock / Financial Corruption. | The 700 Club | |
Paul Caine | Homosexual Affair and Alcoholism | Vineyard Leadership | |
Paul Williams | Child Molestation | Bellevue Baptist Church | The largest Baptist church in the SBC. |
Peter Popoff | Fraud | Televangelist/Healer | |
Ravi Zacharias | Sexual Abuse | RZIM | |
Richard Roberts | Embezzlement from Oral Roberts University | Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association | |
Robert Morris | Molested 12-year-old girl for years. | Head Pastor of Gateway Church. | Church has 100,000 weekly worshipers. |
Stev Lawson | Sexual Misconduct | Trinity Bible Church of Dallas | Former Dean at The Master's Seminary, Author of 33 books, Founder and President of OnePassion Ministries, Teaching Fellow at Ligonier's Ministries. |
Ted Haggard | Gay Sex and Drug Abuse | President of the National Associations of Evangelicals | Haggard was very outspoken about homosexuality. |
Tim Ballard | Alleged Sexual Coercion | O.U.R. | |
Various | Human Trafficking | Word of Faith Fellowship | |
Various | Ponzi Scheme | Greater Ministries International | |
Various | Fraud | Baptist Foundation of Arizona | They stole money from their congregants. |
Various pastors and church leaders | Sexual assault | Southern Baptist Convention | In 2017 the Houston Chronicle exposed the SBC who overlooked thousands of sexual assaults in their churches over a 40-year period of time. |
William Shiell | Bullying Women/Students | First Baptist Church | Former President of Northern Seminary Chicago, |
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