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 ...

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 ...

Pearson’s church once had 6,000 members, and his story was chronicled on This American Life and later became a Netflix film The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2004 Carlton Pearson, the former pastor of one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was declared a heretic by his peers. Pearson was labelled as such because of his belief in universal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former ...

Who is a heretic, and who is holy? The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. Bishop Carlton Pearson was one of the country's most prominent Black televangelists in the 1980s, but then he was ...

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It’s been a long time coming, but shooting will begin Jan. 9 on a movie that tells the life story of Bishop Carlton Pearson, the minister who once pastored one of Tulsa’s largest Pentecostal churches ...

What’s the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church’s closeted gay music director, Reggie (a convincing Lakeith Stanfield), provides the hinge for the whole Carlton Pearson story in the ...