CHICAGO (RNS) — Harvest Bible Chapel has announced it will drop a defamation lawsuit against two bloggers, their wives and a freelance reporter after a court ruled that documents subpoenaed in the ...

In the fall of 1988, Lesli and Mark Hopwood were just two years into their marriage and already headed for divorce. They were new to the Chicago suburbs, and Lesli asked her boss if he knew any ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- James MacDonald, the charismatic leader of Harvest Bible Chapel for the last 30 years, is out. MacDonald was fired Tuesday by church elders following several months of public ...

The second-highest ranking pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel has resigned, the latest leader to step down from the megachurch in the wake of the founder's firing and financial turmoil. Harvest Bible ...

Harvest Bible Chapel said this weekend that the “discretionary account” of its former senior pastor was to blame for the megachurch’s termination from a national accreditation group — and now James ...

Harvest Bible Chapel leaders will launch a new church inside the former David Brainerd Christian School, which is now the East Brainerd Intermediate School, Sept. 18 at 10:30 a.m. "We felt compelled ...

(RNS) — Elders announced that the church founder was fired for 'engaging in conduct that the Elders believe is contrary and harmful to the best interests of the church.' CHICAGO (RNS) — James ...

Last Sunday, three days before Christmas, more than 100 people came out to a Myerstown church for its morning worship service. And that evening, another 120 - more than half of them first-time ...

A national accreditation group has officially terminated Harvest Bible Chapel’s membership for violating financial stewardship standards. The termination is the latest blow to the popular megachurch, ...