Calvary Chapel is no stranger to controversies. There have been a number of them in the past.
Southwest Community gets a new pastor | Bob Thune now fills the role vacated by David T. Moore, who resigned in November 2002 amid questions of financial improprieties and after photos surfaced of him in a hot tub with his wife and another woman, both of whom were topless (The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Fla..) More on Moore here.
Interesting story about a change of venue for a graduation. "Many grumbled that the conditions would have been better at the more spacious Calvary Chapel in West Melbourne, where graduation was held last year. But Bayside was one of four public high schools forced to abandon that venue after two families sued the school district, arguing it was inappropriate to hold the ceremonies in front of the chapel's giant cross. A federal judge agreed the ceremonies might violate the Constitution, and the district settled the case last fall."
The date 06-06-06 is right around the corner (or has just passed if we haven't edited this yet). Here's one CC pastor who sees no significance in the date.
Chuck Smith, through the CCOF has come out against the emergent church. Some see this as a distancing of Chuck Sr from Chuck Jr.
It seem that when Skip Heitzig resigned as pastor of Calvary of Albuquerque he never quite left. Read the rest of the story. This controversy is also being well covered by the Phoenix Preacher.
Chuck and Jeff Smith and Mike Kester are in a legal battle for the control of CSN. This controversy is being well covered by the Phoenix Preacher.
Here's the story of one pastor removed for being a Calvinist. There are other stories, too.
Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa had a ministry called Maranatha Music!. This became a multimillion dollar company and Chuck Smith sold Maranatha Music! to his nephew Chuck Fromm and a group of investors called "The Corinthian Group". Details of the sale are unknown.
Missler caught for a second time in a plagiarism scandal.
Missler has connections to the militia movements.
Joseph Sabolick, 46, founded what became a popular branch of the Calvary Chapel in Laguna Beach in 1997, but said he was ousted from his pulpit last year after his brother, George Sabolick, and others falsely accused him of adultery, pedophilia and misappropriation of more than $1 million in church funds. Sobolick sued Calvary Laguna, Don McClure, Dennis Davenport, Bob Caldwell, Chris Norman, George Sabolick (all pastors) and a few other people. He eventually dropped the lawsuit. Read the story.
David Hocking was caught in adultery and removed from his position at Calvary of Santa Ana. Hocking was taken in with open arms by Chuck Smith and given a Wednesday night Bible study at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. Read the story here.
Calvary Chapel is dogmatic on non-essentials.
What are the politics of Calvary Chapel?
John Todd accused Chuck Smith of taking money from the Illuminati.
Some describe the support as blind.
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