Heretics
Illustration: Adam Maida; Photograph: AP Photo/M. Spencer Green
The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a rising star in the evangelical movement, who cast aside the idea of hell, and with it everything he'd worked for over his entire life.
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Our New Movie, "Come Sunday"
The film tells the real-life story of Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star in the Pentecostal church and Oral Roberts’s protégé.
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