The case of mega-church minister Bishop Eddie Long - the
charismatic pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta who is accused in lawsuits filed by four men of coercing them into having sex with him - is not an anomaly. And the Long scandal is raising a number of serious issues within the evangelical movement including the absurd amount of wealth accumulated by some successful charismatic preachers, and their predilection for sexual shenanigans.

The Eddie Long Scandal is Tip of the Charismatic Sex-Charged Iceberg: Sexual Hijinks in the Name of.

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'Moral failure in our ranks has become an epidemic-and the only solution is a heaven-sent spiritual housecleaning,' writes Charisma magazine contributor J. Lee Grady