Bishop Carlton D. Pearson during the 2006 Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner at Wyndhamn Nassau Resort and Crystal Palace Casino in New Providence, Bahamas, United States. (Photo by Moses ...

Bishop Carlton Pearson, who died last week, challenged Christian doctrine by declaring that hell did not exist. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with the bishop's agent and friend, Will Bogle. Who is a ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a new one — after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has ...

He led a popular religious revival and a megachurch, but his peers and congregation abandoned him once he questioned core doctrine and advocated gay rights. By Trip Gabriel Bishop Carlton D. Pearson, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who fell from favor and was branded a heretic after he embraced the idea that there is no hell and supported gay rights has died, ...