Articles written by Jim Cornelius & Eric Dolson

Jim Cornelius & Eric Dolson|Updated Jan 3, 2006

Christ’s Church of New Beginnings in Sisters is suffering a crisis in the wake of allegations against its pastor, Shane Hall, who faces charges of sex abuse. All of the roiling human emotions such a crisis arouses were present on Sunday when parishioners learned that the organization may actually have been incorporated as a non-profit evangelical business by Hall’s family, rather than a church. There was anger. There was fear. Yet there was also something much more powerful present. There was a deep and abiding desire to pre... Full story