A pastor at a Baptist church in Virginia was arrested Aug. 6 for allegedly pretending to be a teenage boy online to lure young girls into having sexually explicit communications with him. Jacob Ryan Barnett, 34, of Catawba, Virginia, is facing a federal charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a child, according to a criminal complaint filed Aug. 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Barnett worked as the associate pastor of students and mobilization at Cata...| The Roys Report
Amid mounting accusations of procedural misconduct in the church trial of one of their own bishops, more than 150 members of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) attended a virtual town hall Tuesday where a plan was unveiled for overhauling the denomination’s clergy misconduct policies. “I think it is a good thing that the proposal has come out at this time, while the challenges of the Ruch trial are fresh in our memories, our impressions,” said the Rev.| The Roys Report