You won't find much about K.A. Paul on the Christianity Today
site. Every reference to the Indian preacher is from a Weblog, mostly
from outlets raising questions about his ministry. (One exception: The New Republic
was mildly positive, apparently because he talks about poverty more
than he does about abortion.) We didn't report on his expulsion from the
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability over oversight and
financial transparency concerns. We didn't report on the International
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention taking the
unprecedented step of issuing a vote of no confidence in his ministry,
or of the Assemblies of God leadership similarly criticizing his work.
We haven't followed up on reports that his orphanage ministry spends
more on jet fuel for Paul's plane than on actual orphans, nor that he
has taken credit for other people's work. We have no plans to report his
recent claims
that the Republican Party is delaying the Second Coming of Christ and
that the Iraq war is "genocide." Quite honestly, we haven't covered him
because there are many self-promotional ministers out there with grossly
exaggerated claims, outrageous statements, and problematic finances.
Paul has had more success in getting himself into The New Yorker and other publications, but getting such clips seems to be his ministry's real focus. So why give him more attention?
Well, he's certainly getting attention this week. Amid
the Mark Foley scandal, Paul scored a meeting with House Speaker Dennis
Hastert at the speaker's home. What's more, Paul claims that Hastert
promised him he'd resign. He told Mother Jones, "God convinced ...
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